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Hiring is tough!

Guest post by: Ilya Bodner

Article Overview: For the past 15 months I have been in an aggressive hiring mode. Some months more aggressive then others, but overall it has been a daily grind. Despite the weak economy I am still having a hard time finding A players. A friend of mine that also looks for a constant flow of candidates once told me that A players never got fired, laid off, or go jobless. At first I dismissed that but more and more over time I started to realize that this is the case.

Hiring is tough!

For the past 15 months I have been in an aggressive hiring mode. Some months more aggressive then others, but overall it has been a daily grind. Despite the weak economy I am still having a hard time finding A players. A friend of mine that also looks for a constant flow of candidates once told me that A players never got fired, laid off, or go jobless. At first I dismissed that but more and more over time I started to realize that this is the case.

As those of us that have jobs and may think that the situations are tough we still have a bit of income, it may not be much or at times it may feel like there is nothing at all - rarely do we say there is absolutely no job for me (it always tends to be the lower income jobs that we push away from).

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