8 Employment Facts

At Staffing it is interesting to read some of the interesting stats from the temping industry. Whether you are a staffing agency, employer or candidate you will be surprised and facinated with the following hiring facts (Updated May 2021):

• Just as the number of job opening can increase it often will decrease at an even faster rate if an economy is slowing down. Nothing is constant so the highest salaries are secured when unemployment rates are lowest. Rememnber however lock in your job and salary at the peak as you may be looking for work when the cycle dips. With approximately 85% of available jobs never advertised you should never stop career networking.
• Many enterprises use talent-management software to screen resumes that look at keywords to screen out up to 78% of applicants without ever looking at a resume or cover letter
• It was reported of the 24,000 new hires 44% of them failed within 20 months and of these, 90% left because their attitudes did not align to that of the company. Only 12% failed because of a lack of skills.
• The average cost of replacing a member of staff earning is $5,000 and $13,000.
• Organisations spend on average 6 and 7 seconds reviewing resumes, 1 grammar or spelling mistake and your CV will be thrown away. 79% of CVs are ignored if your email address is unprofessional.
• Companies on average look for the consider the following traits before making an offer: 29% look for multitasking skills; 30% look for initiative; 21% look for creative thinking; and 11% look for something else in the candidate.
• On average new talent take between 22 and 26 weeks to reach optimum productivity.
• It is interesting to note that only 6% of unsuccessful candidates were given feedback that was moderately useful from hirers. Only 4% of candidates received valuable feedback.
• Phone interviews last 28 minutes and face-to-face interviews last 47 minutes on average. In a survey of 2,000 hiring managers, 34% claimed to know whether or not they would hire someone within 10 minutes. After that, it usually takes 1 day to 11 days to hear from the recruiters with their decision.
• companies report that 1 in 18 job offers (around 5%) are rejected by their first choice of candidate. Usually because they have received another offer, however often for many other reasons.

Sources :

• Recruitment & Employment Confederation
• the ABC
• The Telegraph
• American Staffing Association
• The Sydney Morning Herald

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