Comments on: 2013 Hiring Forecast: A Good Employee Is Hard to Find http://www.networksolutions.com/smallbusiness/2013/01/2013-hiring-forecast-a-good-employee-is-hard-to-find/ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Devan Perine http://www.networksolutions.com/smallbusiness/2013/01/2013-hiring-forecast-a-good-employee-is-hard-to-find/#comment-68139 Devan Perine Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.networksolutions.com/smallbusiness/?p=16478#comment-68139 Over the last 8-12 months we've also seen the number of job applicants go down quite a bit. So for a marketing position in Chicago that used to get 150 applicants, we're now seeing candidate pools of like 80. Unemployment is down, so there's not as big of a market place for talent out there as there used to be (like in 2009 when it was awful). So there's been more focus on recruiting passive candidates, which means poaching, raises for current employees to retain them, and so forth. Over the last 8-12 months we’ve also seen the number of job applicants go down quite a bit. So for a marketing position in Chicago that used to get 150 applicants, we’re now seeing candidate pools of like 80.

Unemployment is down, so there’s not as big of a market place for talent out there as there used to be (like in 2009 when it was awful). So there’s been more focus on recruiting passive candidates, which means poaching, raises for current employees to retain them, and so forth.

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