{"id":839,"date":"2007-04-19T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T14:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/defining-the-battle-for-talent\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T07:13:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T12:13:48","slug":"defining-the-battle-for-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/defining-the-battle-for-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining The Battle For Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The biggest challenge employers face in recruiting new hires is the competition between companies for talent” notes Worldwide ERC<\/a>, the association for global workforce mobility management. According to an article on their website, more than 90% of the companies surveyed are having problems recruiting the right people<\/strong> and more than 20% consider the problem severe. They were asked to give the reasons why they have been running into difficulties in hiring talented people – here are their responses (including percentages from the 2002 survey):<\/p>\n

“The biggest challenge employers face in recruiting new hires is the competition between companies for talent” notes Worldwide ERC, the association for global workforce mobility management. According to an article on their website, more than 90% of the companies surveyed are having problems recruiting the right people and more than 20% consider the problem severe. They were asked to give the reasons why they have been running into difficulties in hiring talented people – here are their responses (including percentages from the 2002 survey): 2002 2006 Competition with other companies 47% 59% Lack of qualified candidates 48% 50% Cost of living\/housing issues 26% 38% Undesirable areas 22% 32% Dual career\/family… 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_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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-dx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":953,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/the-trick-to-talent-upgrades\/","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":0},"title":"The Trick To Talent Upgrades","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Great article at abcnews.com from my friend Bob Rosner titled Working Wounded: Recruiting Top Talent for Your Organization. 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