{"id":2087,"date":"2013-11-08T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/technical-recruiting-blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2013-11-08T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:26:43","slug":"hiring-picking-steam-time-talent-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/hiring-picking-steam-time-talent-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring Picking Up Steam: TIME FOR TALENT AUDIT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\"><b>Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/b> (BLS)<\/a> report, 204,000 new jobs were created last month. This totals 1,053,000 created <b>over the last six months<\/b>! Combined with both: a) yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.gov\">Commerce Department<\/a> report that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gross_domestic_product\">Gross Domestic Production (GDP) <\/a>rose an unexpectedly high 2.8% in the 3rd quarter, which marked its fastest growth in a year! And b) several recent, successful, Initial Public Offering (IPO) launches, including Twitter whose share price skyrocketed 73% to $45.10 just 24 hours after its Wednesday launch, there is a lot of evidence that hiring is picking up momentum!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore, anecdotally, I have noticed that many of our clients have significantly ramped up hiring in the last few months (<i>especially technical employees such as engineers and IT professionals<\/i>). Unfortunately, few are prepared for this momentous recruiting increase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, we recommend a <b>360-degree audit<\/b> of your staffing needs including:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Full assessments of all departments\u2019 requirements for the next 18 months.<\/li>\n<li>Thorough evaluations of your talent needs and comparisons to the current marketplace landscape including manpower availabilities versus your competitors\u2019 needs and current efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Researching new methods for securing talent within your organization.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing the recruiting prowess of your hiring managers.<\/li>\n<li>Brainstorming sessions to discuss your actual and projected regulations and how they will affect abilities to secure key talent in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To assist you, we have prepared a list of 12 key recruiting tips. Please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/technical-recruiting-tips\/technical-recruiting-tips.php\">http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/technical-recruiting-tips\/technical-recruiting-tips.php<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to today\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, 204,000 new jobs were created last month. This totals 1,053,000 created over the last six months! Combined with both: a) yesterday\u2019s Commerce Department report that Gross Domestic Production (GDP) rose an unexpectedly high 2.8% in the 3rd quarter, which marked its fastest growth in a year! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,48,49,50,64,65,69,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-employment","category-chicago-engineering-jobs","category-chicago-jobs","category-chicago-technical-jobs","category-engineering-recruiter","category-recruiter","category-scientific-recruitment","category-technical-recruiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}