Career development: hitting the mark

Once little more than meeting managers and information regurgitators, IR specialists are being called upon by management to widen their skill set. Executive search firms report a new litany of descriptors in the briefs provided by their corporate clients. These include a flair for numbers and financial modeling, an understanding of capital markets and regulation, line management experience and sufficient credibility to stand in for CEOs and CFOs. Not that this is anything new. Besides a baseline