It seems Metro Detroit is getting the attention of some impressive women these days. In the past week, Judith Rodin gave Detroit a verbal high five. And, on Monday, Charlene Begley was among the GE officials in town to announce more high-tech jobs coming to Michigan.

Begley, one of Fortune magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women, was on site in Van Buren Township to highlight the addition of 220 jobs to GE's original commitment to bring 1,100 jobs to Michigan. The jobs will be part of GE Aviation, and the positions will help develop fuel-efficient jet engines for commercial and military aircraft (while the Blog is mostly about Detroit, I also like to celebrate job creation of ANY kind in this here state).

Begley also will be speaking today at the Inforum annual meeting in Dearborn. This highly impressive executive – president and CEO of GE Home & Business Solutions as well as SVP and CIO for GE – took time to chat with the Blog about Michigan's strengths (we do have some), GE's investments here and whether she could talk her company into moving here

Read more: http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/05/04/qa-charlene-begley-on-finding-michigan-talent/#ixzz0oqrjSQRb