Retirees, Moms Most Highly Sought to Plug Labor Gap
Poll also finds that companies are fed up with online job applicants who lack the right qualifications.
By Garry Kranz Comments 0 | Recommend 0
Résumé Overload: Companies are showing increased interest in retirees and stay-at-home moms to possibly fill glaring labor shortages. Nearly 40 percent are targeting
retirees (or those soon to be retired), while parents seeking to re-enter the
workforce are on the radar of 22 percent of hiring managers. That’s according to
a poll by Jobfox, an online job site in McLean, Virginia. The poll probed more
than 250 recruiters from four major metro areas: Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco
and Washington. Nearly 56 percent expect to ratchet up recruiting efforts in
2008. Also, many companies apparently are sick of sifting through résumés from
online job applicants who are wholly unqualified. In fact, nine of 10 résumés
from online career sites aren’t worth pursuing, according to Jobfox.
Workforce Management contributing editor Garry Kranz is based in Richmond, Virginia. E-mail editors@workforce.com to comment.
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