http://www.magicpotofjobs.com/2006/10/06/job-fit-team-fit-boss-fit-company-fit-skill-fit-blah-blah/ Powered by Cheezhead Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:34:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.magicpotofjobs.com/2006/10/06/job-fit-team-fit-boss-fit-company-fit-skill-fit-blah-blah/comment-page-1/#comment-2631 Patrick Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:29:16 +0000 http://www.magicpotofjobs.com/2006/10/06/job-fit-team-fit-boss-fit-company-fit-skill-fit-blah-blah/#comment-2631 Nice to hear this frustration from someone other than just jobhunters. Maybe a fee scale that charges clients more for finding experienced agency people than for finding career changers might help. After all the clients are paying more for salary with those specifications. It would make an interesting business problem determining how much more the market will bear for the difference. I was in engineering and I am doing my part by letting anyone I meet know that there is no market in engineering, or in any profession where all the ads say 5-10 years experience. That is what all alumni should do when they can't find a job in their chosen profession. Good luck finding candidates. Perhaps you might advise some of the jobhunters how they might start competing firms and drum up future business that way. Finally you might also look at nonlocal candidates. Relocation can be a problem, but if considered carefully, it could increase the size of your candidate pool. Maybe advertising in trade magazines might also help. Nice to hear this frustration from someone other than just jobhunters. Maybe a fee scale that charges clients more for finding experienced agency people than for finding career changers might help. After all the clients are paying more for salary with those specifications. It would make an interesting business problem determining how much more the market will bear for the difference. I was in engineering and I am doing my part by letting anyone I meet know that there is no market in engineering, or in any profession where all the ads say 5-10 years experience. That is what all alumni should do when they can’t find a job in their chosen profession.
Good luck finding candidates. Perhaps you might advise some of the jobhunters how they might start competing firms and drum up future business that way.
Finally you might also look at nonlocal candidates. Relocation can be a problem, but if considered carefully, it could increase the size of your candidate pool. Maybe advertising in trade magazines might also help.

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