Posted on 04/18/2013 6:44:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
American employers have a variety of job vacancies, piles of cash and countless well-qualified candidates. But despite a slowly improving economy, many companies remain reluctant to actually hire, stringing job applicants along for weeks or months before they make a decision.
If they ever do.
The number of job openings has increased to levels not seen since the height of the financial crisis, but vacancies are staying unfilled much longer than they used to — an average of 23 business days today compared to a low of 15 in mid-2009, according to a new measure of Labor Department data by the economists Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger.
Some have attributed the more extended process to a mismatch between the requirements of the four million jobs available and the skills held by many of the 12 million unemployed. That’s probably true in a few high-skilled fields, like nursing or biotech, but for a large majority of positions where candidates are plentiful, the bigger problem seems to be a sort of hiring paralysis.
“There’s a fear that the economy is going to go down again, so the message you get from C.F.O.’s is to be careful about hiring someone,” said John Sullivan, a management professor at San Francisco State University who runs a human resources consulting business. “There’s this great fear of making a mistake, of wasting money in a tight economy.”
As a result, employers are bringing in large numbers of candidates for interview after interview after interview. Data from Glassdoor.com, a site that collects information on hiring at different companies, shows that the average duration of the interview process at major companies like Starbucks, General Mills and Southwest Airlines has roughly doubled since 2010.
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It’s obamacare plain and simple.
OMG. how deluded. nowhere in that article (that I saw, but I didn’t manage to wretch my way completely through it) did they mention the terror that obamacare has wrought on the business community.
no one knows what the expense of an FTE is going to be next year, so OF COURSE hiring managers are being extraordinarily careful about adding employees.
that’s just ridiculous.
OMG. how deluded. nowhere in that article (that I saw, but I didn’t manage to wretch my way completely through it) did they mention the terror that obamacare has wrought on the business community.
no one knows what the expense of an FTE is going to be next year, so OF COURSE hiring managers are being extraordinarily careful about adding employees.
that’s just ridiculous.
But in fact, most places are diddling around, counting the savings every month that they’re getting from all the unfilled positions
I tend to agree. It’s almost as if they take enough time, they can just say- ‘see, we went all that time without the position filled and we survived, so let’s just eliminate it.’ I also think companies unwillingness to want to spend any money/time training is a little ridiculous. I don’t care what kind of skills you have, when you start with a new company, you have to be trained for that company. They waste more time and money fooling around with the interview process than if they would just take a good candidate and invest a little bit in them.
“Every now and then the NYTimes stumbles over the truth. “
More likely the truth gets accidentally published because it slipped by due to poor oversight by lazy editors.
So, you agree with NYT that employers are evil? That is the tone of the article. You seem to be saying evil employers are simply being skinflints to inflate the bottom line at the cost of throwing innocent children in the street.
NYT and the rest of the enemedia outlets are doing their best to ignore people like Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), who said small businesses are frozen in their hiring because Obastardcare is a giant unknown in their staffing cost center.
It's common at Apple for a potential hire to have to go through at least 7, and up to 11 interview appointments for senior tech positions, spread out over weeks.
“If a company called me back 6 times, I’d think that they didn’t have their act together, and would doubt I’d want to work there.”
I agree. When we post an ad, there is absolutely no way we would want an applicant come back for even a 3rd time on most cases. It just shows the company is disorganized, indecisive and inept.
The only important question we ask them, really is: “what do you think of Obama?”. If they go into full libtard drool mode, we kick them out and go to the next interview...
Hmmmmm. You hiring?
We did. Wished there was an FR job bank or job section for each city so only like-minded people will be considered and hired. IMHO, I’ve been thinking of e-mailing Jim to consider it..
Not that it bothers me in the least. :-)
I'm fortunate to be in a fairly conservative field (IT). Companies I've worked for range from "Unabashedly Liberal" to "We can neither confirm nor deny that we have have political leanings, if indeed said political leanings ever existed in the first place. So, please, please don't sue us!" But, doing what I do insulates me pretty well from the rest of the company. Especially since I'm not out in the user community anymore.
I gotta say that the liberal companies were easy to work for, in that their standards were so darned low. When I get a little closer to retirement, and want a nice, easy glide path....I'd give them some consideration again.
I would say more that they are indecisive and hesitant to act. If they find a guy who’s perfect and will work for half the regular salary, they’ll hire him, otherwise they’ll keep looking.
Why shouldn’t they?
If customers aren’t receiving the goods because you’re understaffed, you need to make the hire.
“I gotta say that the liberal companies were easy to work for, in that their standards were so darned low.”
LOl, with my experience, that’s true.
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