{"id":1127,"date":"2007-08-13T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/scarcity-of-quality-sales-candidates\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T13:16:45","slug":"scarcity-of-quality-sales-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/scarcity-of-quality-sales-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarcity Of Quality Sales Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No surprises here from the ManageSmarter.com article &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.managesmarter.com\/msg\/content_display\/sales\/e3i116637f125e0dea531346f042ba77816\">Roundin&#8217; Up Reps<\/a>.  Our clients often ask us what the employment market is like right now.  For most of this year we have been telling them it is a candidate&#8217;s market right now.  Some seem surprised while others seem to be familiar with this fact.<\/p>\n<p>In case there were any doubts, this short article lays out the findings from a CareerBuilder.com survey (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 2007 CareerBuilder.com Midyear Employment Forecast indicates that &#8220;<strong>46 percent of sales employers currently have open positions for which they cannot find qualified candidates, an increase from 39 percent heading into the first half<\/strong>,&#8221; reads a release on the findings. Employers are also more likely to give raises and raise base salaries for recruitment reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Job opportunities opening up in the third quarter is &#8220;typical pretty much across the board for most employers,&#8221; says Tanya Flynn, corporate communications manager and career adviser for CareerBuilder. Flynn adds that particularly in the sales industry there will always be a demand for top sales recruits.<\/p>\n<p>Also polled in the study were 389 sales employees. While 16 percent say are engaged in a job hunt, <em>50 percent admit that they passively consider a career shift<\/em> but are not actively pursuing one, the results say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprises here from the ManageSmarter.com article &#8211; Roundin&#8217; Up Reps. Our clients often ask us what the employment market is like right now. For most of this year we have been telling them it is a candidate&#8217;s market right now. Some seem surprised while others seem to be familiar with this fact. In case there were any doubts, this short article lays out the findings from a CareerBuilder.com survey (my emphasis): The 2007 CareerBuilder.com Midyear Employment Forecast indicates that &#8220;46 percent of sales employers currently have open positions for which they cannot find qualified candidates, an increase from 39 percent heading into the first half,&#8221; reads a release on&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/scarcity-of-quality-sales-candidates\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring-salespeople","category-sourcing","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-ib","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1842,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/an-alternative-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":0},"title":"An Alternative Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We get many press releases every day that mainly announce new products.\u00a0 However, I did get one from CareerBuilder.com that was fairly interesting.\u00a0 The topic is sales hiring in 2009 and, not surprisingly, many companies are going to be \"cautious.\" The format is basically a survey of 2009 trends and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1311,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/candidates-are-negotiating-offers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":1},"title":"Candidates Are Negotiating Offers","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"No surprise here but the Career News is reporting that candidates are negotiating for higher starting salaries in this current market (emphasis mine):\u00a0 Job candidates are more apt to ask for higher starting salaries this coming year, and companies may have to up the ante to attract them. That's according\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1221,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/and-the-economy-rolls-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":2},"title":"And The Economy Rolls On","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest Q4 hiring survey is out, this time from CareerBuilder and USAToday. From the press release with my emphasis: The survey, titled \"Q4 2007 Job Forecast,\" was conducted from August 10 through September 4, 2007 of more than 2,700 hiring managers and human resource professionals in private sector companies.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1355,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/hiring-continues-to-expand-in-2008\/","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":3},"title":"Hiring Continues To Expand In 2008","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"No real surprises from this CNNMoney.com article (emphasis mine): Employers are trimming their hiring plans but still expect to add workers in 2008, according to a survey released Wednesday. Online job search site CareerBuilder.com said its survey of 3,016 hiring managers and human resource professionals in the private sector found\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2486,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/05\/candidates-are-negotiating-pay\/","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":4},"title":"Candidates Are Negotiating Pay","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I can attest to the findings referenced in this Manpower survey: Just last week, ManpowerGroup released the results of its sixth-annual Talent Shortage Survey. The survey included almost 40,000 employers across 39 countries and territories. Globally, 34 percent of employers say they are having difficulty filling positions. The three most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1510,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/q2-hiring-to-remain-consistent\/","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":5},"title":"Q2 Hiring To Remain Consistent","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"That title probably got your attention.\u00a0 The economy is completely dynamic so things can change, but the quarterly CareerBuilder.com\/Harris Interactive survey came back with some surprising results (my editing). \"The job loss reported in the first quarter signified a gradual deceleration in recruitment in the U.S. as the nation's economy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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