How Companies Are Hiring With A Recession

By Cade Krueger

A lot of recruiters get frustrated and depressed during a difficult financial downturn. Many never recover because they are not well educated and prepared for the recession. You have to understand the direction of the recruiting industry as far as where it is at and where it is going.

Watson Wyatt conducted a survey during the week of December 8th for a variety of companies across numerous industries to get a well-balanced idea of what changes companies have made and what they will continue to make for the next year. This is important to understand because this information will help to understand areas to focus on and what negative thoughts to avoid when sourcing candidates for large corporations.

If you are working with just one company for recruiting it is still important information for you to understand this information. The more knowledge you have, the more skilled you will be to make the right decisions and outperform your competition.

What is good to know is that majority of the hiring freeze and layoffs have already happened. 47% of the corporations have already performed some level of a hiring freeze and 39% have done some level of layoffs. As far as changes in the next 12 months go, only 18% are planning on a hiring freeze and 23% are looking to layoff more people.

It is obvious to see that the drop off is going to be large for the hiring freeze and layoffs. So a lot of those people are going to get jobs back or move on to other companies and they will need recruiting support during these difficult times.

Companies have to find high impact employees that they can leverage their efforts well to make more funds. They will hire people that others can't keep. As they say, someone's trash is always someone else's treasure.

Companies want to hire more and they will be willing to do so in a few years. That is why it is so important for you to find candidates that have been let go or on faulty ground and build a relationship with them now. In a few months they will be getting jobs again.

One of the best ways to leverage your efforts with sourcing job candidates is to market with TalentSeekr from EnticeLabs. They do a great job of branding corporations and allow for you to find candidates that you can throw in your CRM. - 18099

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