In anticipation of the major health care reform promised by the White House, associations and nonprofits with a stake in the changes have been on a hiring binge to build their advocacy teams during the last six months. One in three job announcements from health care-related associations in the first half of 2009 was a government relations position, the highest recorded since CEO Update started tracking recruiting statistics in 1997. This is in stark contrast to the same period last year when only one in eight job announcements from health care-related associations was a government affairs vacancy. That ratio did jump to one in four in the second half of 2008, but spikes… Read More