I read a quote today, “All things must change to something new, to something strange” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

It’s quite random but I thought as an exercise in logic, how could I apply it to my profession of recruiting, and this is what I came up with.

The law of conservation of matter says, matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged. Longfellow’s quote is quite similar to that universal law and can also be applied to all things, tangible and intangible, including ‘recruiting’. What was used in our past, let’s say pen & paper and the phone is now e-mail, faxes and social networking sites. If you would have told someone 70-80 years ago that it will one day be possible for them to communicate with or find people from all over the world, in any profession, with just a key-stroke, they would most likely have found that person and idea strange.

Nothing ever stays the same. The second a thing is created (an idea or an object, including ourselves) it begins to decay or at least change from its original form, into something new, for a moment; it may even be a bit strange.

Marcus Ettinger DC, BS