Find us in your area and elsewhere. Unemployment is low, and it's getting harder every day to find candidates. If you want convincing numbers, just throw the employment section of the Sunday's paper on your bathroom scale. The problem is especially vexing for recruiters of high-tech professionals.
Recruiters face increasing competition for a shrinking pool of active job seekers.
The problem was that everyone else had the same idea. Ads were online instead of on paper, but fundamentally, it was the same seller's market. Sure, they were expensive, but they got the job done and that was what impatient information technology managers wanted. But skyrocketing costs left recruiters right back where they started, looking for affordable options in an impossible market. I believe it is, but only if you can escape the mindset of traditional recruiting.