How Has Hiring Changed - You Need to Know This

In the last few years the entire employment landscape has changed. I am no only talking about the excessive unemployment. Those that do the hiring have changed. There are numerous reasons and one of those is the hiring manager. Those seeking jobs should be aware so they know how to change how they are conducting their job search.

For decades Baby Boomers were the hiring managers. After all there were 76 million born. They are retiring at a very fast pace. Now every month, there are about 250,000 either leaving the work force all together or they are taking other employment different from their career. Who has taken their place?

Those taking their place are the Gen X generation. There were only 38 million born. Makes for some interesting thoughts doesn't it? It gets better.

With companies down sizing, right sizing, changing the organization to make it leaner and all the other terms for letting people go in the name of more streamlining, it has changed the hiring dynamics. Those left in organizations have experienced being asked to take on the tasks of those that left the company. Where a department had 15 people there may be only 7 now. The work didn't go away, the 7 absorbed it. So positions are more multi-dimensional today. So are the hiring managers' jobs.

The Baby Boomers have not mentored the Gen X replacements like their predecessors did. They now have to come up with the best way to hire on their own in some cases. They don't want 3-4 recruiters battling over a search. They don't want to pour over hundreds of resumes. Resumes don't impress them. They want the right person for the position now. They find the old methods not helpful. They are more willing to listen to logic and reason than many of the predecessors.

Learning how to directly approach the hiring managers today is much more effective than other ways to try to secure employment.

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