According to interviews with several recruiters and HR managers in the past two weeks, they are prepared to spend large chunks of time sifting through a candidate's past. Everything will be placed under a microscope - from school attendance to employment histories to arrest records. Some recruiters plan to dig back through seven to 10 years of a candidate's history, rather than three, which is the common range for a background check these days. Some employers, especially tech companies that rely on foreign talent, fear visa programs, like the H-1B tech visas, will be scaled back considerably. Where it took two months to arrange a work visa in the past, it could go to four or six months in the future.
More applications are likely to be rejected.
Read more online. After watching the airline industry eliminate more than 100,000 jobs in a single week, a growing number of analysts believe the economic fallout from the terrorist attacks is only just beginning. Some economists believe American workers will see an additional 1.5 million pink slips by spring or summer of 2002. Anything even remotely related to the travel industry is going to suffer. People are in a funk.