Summary
After four years of economic slowdown in the US, recruiters last year began to feel the pinch for talent as hiring accelerated and the unemployment rate edged down. Last month, the unemployment rate was 4.7%. Though the rate is still well above the all-time low of 3.8% in Apr 2000, talent shortages are apparent in select skill areas and professions, rather than across the board. Temp-to-hire, already a tool being used by the biggest companies, will gain in popularity as a form of outsourced recruiting. Larger companies will boost their recruiting staff, drawing from the headhunting ranks. Increasingly, companies are recognizing that the quality of hires has a direct bearing on their success, and are beginning to evaluate recruiters on the performance of their hires. Microsoft recruiter Shally Steckerl says recruiters will have two choices: become a sourcer, or become obsolete.
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Be Aggressive, or Be Gone
TODD DAVIS recruited for a needle in a haystack. As senior clinician recruitment consultant with California's largest physician group, Davis sought out doctors and professional staff. He was accustomed to finding nurses with unique specialties and doctors in high-demand fields. But in January he was looking for a computer specialist with a m...
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