Retirees, Moms Most Highly Sought to Plug Labor Gap

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.