You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, eBay and others.
Free-to-play games have to battle for retention in such a crowded market place and allowing a title to stagnate for even a few weeks will see players moving on elsewhere.
Retention is half the battle in this current "war for talent".
In short, transition, in the Middle East and North Africa has deteriorated into a battle for retention of political control.
I was instead furious with the former governor of New York for destroying his career during a week when I was battling acute water retention.
Those who value risk retention have already lost one major battle, and may yet lose another.
Engagement equals retention and retention saves time and money.
Stressed by more than eight years of war — six of those in two conflicts — the military has battled to meet recruiting and retention goals.
