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Question: I have always been willing to spend whatever time it takes to hire right. How can I avoid the downside of that approach in this candidate short marketplace?
What a great question! Once you’ve decided that you need to hire, there is always time between when you make that decision and when you actually put a new hire in place. In today’s candidate short marketplace, that time has dramatically increased. Some hiring campaigns can take double the time they took just 2-3 years ago.
We know your pain – our clients tell us about it regularly when they call us late in their hiring process and need our help to minimize the impact of a job gone unfilled for too long. 2-3 years ago, a job unfilled was not a big deal. In today’s environment, most teams are busy enough that being short one or two people, can have significant impact. Not only is there increased pressure on each team member to pick up the pieces, but in many scenarios, there will be significant costs associated with the overtime required to just keep up. And if that “waiting to hire” period is extended too long, frustrated and over worked employees easily become targets for competitive recruiters. In fact, being short staffed for too long often turns into lost customers, not just a tarnished reputation.
Bottom-line, managing all the issues that can grow out of being “short staffed” is never fun for managers or their team, and in today’s market, the solution doesn’t always come quickly.
Here are some ideas that we recommend to clients when they are feeling the crunch of being short staffed but want to stay committed to “hiring right.”
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