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For the 71 job positione that has available, Faith Bliga’s talent acquisitiojn team will review as many as 300 or 400 applicationsand “You still have to review them all to find out whicu ones are qualified,” she says. “I guesa it’s a nice problem to have.” While the Triangle’sw unemployment rate remains high, at 8.5 percent, some optimistic signse are emerging.
Rod Frankel, president of in Raleigh, says he has noticeed in the last five to six weeks an uptickl in orders from his companyy clients that are ready to make direct hires versus filling positionsa with temporary workers or Frankel says he is seeing more activity in requests forsales personnel. “To me, that is a very definitse statement for our owners that while thingsx are not as rosy as theywould like, now is the time to identifyu good talent,” he says. At Raleigh-based software companyt , corporate recruiters are taking advantage of a larger labor pool to builcd a bigger networkof contacts.
“You never know who that perso is goingto know,” says DeLisa senior vice president of peoplde and brand at Red Hat. “They may not fit into a job wehave now, but they mighrt later. Now we have this database of people we can In 2008, Red Hat revamped its employee recruiting Instead of posting all of its open positionzs online and shuffling resumes, the company’s recruiters now actively go after Alexander says. “This is the time to finish up our reorganizatiob so when the market turnsaround we’ll be poised.
” At , recruitment director Cheryl Wingate is seeing an influx of job applicants from the financial services industry and more peopls with a broader base of experiencw applying for call center and sales positions. Some are and that can be a problem. “At the end of the day, we want to make the righ t choice for the compangy and forthe employee,” Wingate says. “We look at theier short-term goals, as well as six monthx and 12 months from Bliga at RTIInternational agrees.
“I think we are seeing a lot of candidates who are overqualifiec and willing to take less Bliga says, “but that usually creates a whole new set of “When the market starts to recover, they start looking for a job again,” she says. “It’s riskh to take someone with 25 years of experience and an MBA who is applyint for a position for someonre with five years experience anda master’es degree.
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