Ms. Glasco said that once the job candidates she helps are past their shock, they become more open to new ideas about where they might work. It's a matter of having them step back and really take a look at where they're going. In some cases, victims of job loss who want to consider all the options are looking in places they wouldn't have considered when the economy was booming, said Lisa Sullivan, vice president of operations for the recruiting firm Technical Careers of Plano. Now some candidates are going to start-ups, which they never thought they would go to, and some are even looking outside of Texas. It makes my job as a recruiter much easier.
People are much more malleable and easy to work with.