BearingPoint's stock is continuing to struggle, despite the recent overall rally on Wall Street. On Sept. 18, shares for hit an all-time low of $4.51. Part of the trouble comes from an SEC filing from earlier this month, when the McLean, Va.-based firm filed a report that sales were increasing and costs were declining. Good news, right? Not really, since revenues were not as high as analysts were predicting, and so many adjusted their forecasts accordingly, according to published financial reports.

But BearingPoint has discovered a silver lining in these stormy financial times. Christopher Formant, executive vice president of the firm's Global Financial Services, says, "I think it's counterintuitive what usually happens, your retention, in spite of a company's publicized issues, goes up and the quality—because there's fewer places for people to go—of the people that you're recruiting goes up dramatically."

Formant does acknowledge that most people wouldn't equate fiscal trouble with recruitment, but says "Usually, you see less movement from firm to firm. People are staying put when things are like this."

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