{"id":788,"date":"2007-03-29T16:29:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/the-biggest-hiring-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T21:29:48","slug":"the-biggest-hiring-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/the-biggest-hiring-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Hiring Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise here:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Finding qualified people to work as sales representatives is the biggest hiring challenge for global employers for the second year in a row, an annual talent shortage survey reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sales reps top the list of hard-to-fill jobs in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and in five other countries&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/rssclick\/2007\/03\/29\/news\/economy\/bc.manpower.jobs2.reut\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy\" target=\"_blank\">The CNN\/Money article<\/a> goes into detail about CEO&#8217;s focus on growth and the lack of salespeople available to power that initiative.&nbsp; We are experiencing it first hand as our sourcing times have been extended.&nbsp; In fact, we are making adjustments today to pour more resources into our sourcing channels.<\/p>\n<p>Strong sales candidates require extra work to locate in the present economy.&nbsp; I continue to see all-too-familiar ads running on the job boards that indicate these employers are not finding the right sales candidates (if any viable ones at all).&nbsp; But there is a solution &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Recruiting_Main.html\" target=\"_blank\">a process that finds the right salesperson for&nbsp;your position<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If your struggle to find the salespeople you need to drive your company&#8217;s growth, why not try a new approach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise here: Finding qualified people to work as sales representatives is the biggest hiring challenge for global employers for the second year in a row, an annual talent shortage survey reported Thursday. Sales reps top the list of hard-to-fill jobs in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and in five other countries&#8230; The CNN\/Money article goes into detail about CEO&#8217;s focus on growth and the lack of salespeople available to power that initiative.&nbsp; We are experiencing it first hand as our sourcing times have been extended.&nbsp; In fact, we are making adjustments today to pour more resources into our sourcing channels. Strong sales candidates require extra work to locate&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/the-biggest-hiring-challenge\/\">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],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-cI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"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! -->