Where Are the Good Candidates?
Where Are the Good Candidates? Wednesday January 6, 2010 Returning to work following a vacation is always challenging. This year brought challenges at several client organizations who are hiring Human Resources staff for their organizations. Perhaps my expectations are too high – and this is a real consideration as I have been hiring staff for more years than I care to mention – but the ability of candidates to project their experience and desirability is poor. You’d think with all of the unemployment and the proliferation of good job search advice online that candidates would “get” what they need to do to get the job. Instead, my experience in looking for three current candidates in HR, PR, and Quality is that it’s hard to find the right person to hire. And, the applicants do themselves absolutely no favors in how they present themselves to a potential employer. Specifically, we seek HR Assistants, and I
