October 28, 2003

Are you understating your job openings?
Posted by tzannos@bostonworks.com">Svetlana Husseini at 10:06 AM -

From Electronic Recruiting News:

This long look at the economics of the workforce was prompted by a desire to question our long held opinions about the coming labor shortage. So far, it looks like we've discovered a major dissonance in the market. Hiring authorities are radically understating the number of job openings in their organizations. According to the BLS numbers, it looks like a 40% to 50% delta.

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