I currently serve as the treasurer on the board of directors of the Arkansas chapter of PRSA. It has been an eye-opening experience. The Arkansas chapter does its own billing for local dues since we incorporate the cost of lunch at our monthly meeting into the bill.
The second quarter statements just went out at the beginning of April. I was surprising to see how many people had changed jobs. Ten of our members had changed jobs since the last quarter. That accounts for eight percent of our membership. If that trend continues more than 30 percent of the membership will change jobs by the end of the year.
According to the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were more than 8 million job openings in professional and business services last year. Almost 63 percent of those job openings were caused by someone quitting their position. The other 37 percent was due to firing, layoff or the creation of a new position.
It will be interesting to see if this trend continues in my local chapter.
National Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet;jsessionid=f030f5790100$3F$3E$7
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