{"id":1758,"date":"2008-10-21T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/hiring-trends-for-q4-of-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T17:47:42","slug":"hiring-trends-for-q4-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/hiring-trends-for-q4-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Q4 Job Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.recruitingtrends.com\/online\/research_corner\/1139-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS\">Recruiting Trends<\/a> provides a summary of CareerBuilder and USA Today&#8217;s Q4 Job Forecast and there are some interesting trends.\u00a0\u00a0First, according to the survey workers are postponing active job searches but are open to a change if the right one comes along.\u00a0 Of the 6,100 workers surveyed, 38% are planning to sit tight for the next year and wait for the economy to swing back while 41% plan on staying until retirement.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;squatting&#8221; will create some tension in that 23% of employers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in the next three months and 34% say they are having a hard time finding qualified candidates, especially in highly-skilled areas.\u00a0 Not surprising, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Finding the right\u00a0candidate will be difficult\u00a0over the next 3 months.\u00a0 The holidays are a difficult time, in general, to fill positions.\u00a0 This holiday season will be even more of a challenge.\u00a0 Posting ads through the big job boards or local newspapers will probably not produce the results you are looking for.\u00a0 I would suggest making a strong push through your network as your primary sourcing channel.\u00a0 This approach will provide the best chance at finding, and hiring, the right candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruiting Trends provides a summary of CareerBuilder and USA Today&#8217;s Q4 Job Forecast and there are some interesting trends.\u00a0\u00a0First, according to the survey workers are postponing active job searches but are open to a change if the right one comes along.\u00a0 Of the 6,100 workers surveyed, 38% are planning to sit tight for the next year and wait for the economy to swing back while 41% plan on staying until retirement. This &#8220;squatting&#8221; will create some tension in that 23% of employers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in the next three months and 34% say they are having a hard time finding qualified candidates, especially in highly-skilled areas.\u00a0 Not&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/hiring-trends-for-q4-of-2008\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,15,5],"tags":[227,37,1049,790],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-sm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->