Agencies are desperate for interactive media buyers and planners, online publishers are desperate for sales staff, but there's no interactive marketing segment as desperate for strong staffers as the search engines, writes ClickZ (via MediaBuyerPlanner).

Recent search engine marketing hires at the search engines include employees poached from major online retailers - in other words, those they hope to score as advertisers. Search engine marketers can practically name their price, according to the author, and relocation assistance is usually provided - a perk not prevalent in recent years.