{"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":"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/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_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":[16,15,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-ib","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/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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