Despite a softening labour market in the US, companies are still struggling to fill job vacancies, with 57% of CEOs reporting problems attracting qualified workers, according to a survey by the Conference Board. The lengthy and convoluted hiring process, including multipage questionnaires and months-long interviews, is turning off potential employees, with recruiters overlooking internal candidates for outside talent. Companies need to bring discipline to their hiring processes, focusing on what is actually needed for the job and keeping track of how many candidates they have considered and how many offers they have made.
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greater burden here. all right, nbc s matt bradley, thank you. i m going to talk to you again at the top of the next hour. want to bring in mark, former cia officer and former deputy chief of operations for the europe eurasia center. thank you for joining us. there s a lot of things i want to tick through with you. i want to kind of drill down on vladimir putin, his objective, and his end game. and talk first about the personality assessment of the russian president, right? i know the cia has this guy dialed, or had this guy dialed, but it seems there s reporting over the last two years he has changed significantly during this pandemic. do we have a true personality assessment of the russian president today and his objectives, what makes him tick, today? so these personality assessments are really important. just on a routine basis, before
prior to the pandemic where we really needed to be thinking about the quality of jobs, 43% of jobs were of low quality based on working conditions and so forth and that still exists. in many ways i think it s been exacerbated. then when you add in the hiring issues that we see, how employers are recruiting, adding personality assessments, one-way video interviews that will rate people on how agreeable they look in an interview, i think it s very complex and there are a lot of things that are going on that can have an impact on whether or not people are finding work. john, could the free market take care of this? help us understand how you see the disconnect. we know people want better jobs and higher wages. we know corporate america is flush with cash. even small businesses at this point have gotten a huge amount of government support and now they re reopened. is the market going to just fix this itself?
systemic need, she works tirelessly to address it. so when students at terry s school reported feeling unprepared to apply for higher education, terry sprang into action to create a school-wide top-to-bottom college readiness effort. under terry s leadership students attended workshops on resume completion, fasfa completion, and ierview preparation, i can barely say it. they did career and personal personality assessments, they helped plan a special college week and organized a military day, hosting recruiters from all branches of our armed forces, and because of these efforts today, 75% of calhoun s seniors now complete key college application steps and terry s school has one state and national recognition, and all of this is just one small part of what terry does for her students