CareerXroads 9th Annual Source of Hire Study: Meltdown in 2009 and What It Means for a 2010 Recovery

Gerry Crispin

For the past nine years CXR has published a free, public report on the "Source of Hire" -- a detailed description (free of vendor spin), about how one group of corporations fills their open positions, in the US/North America. You'll find a free PDF of the SOH report here. If you're in a career transition and want to see a real-world assessment of where and how (especially large) corporations recruited candidates for their open positions last year, here it is. If there's one word you should take-away from this report, as a job seeker, it's "referrals."

In the introduction, the authors write; "If the reader assumes that the data sliced and diced in this whitepaper is truly representative of where firms find their hires in the US, then you will have missed our point entirely. Indeed, this whitepaper, which we have published now for nearly a decade, is constructed as a lab report to examine the problems and the promise of how well corporations measure one part of the staffing process. "

"Our intent is to hold up a mirror so firms can look at themselves and their increasingly critical and vulnerable supply chain. Vendors can help, but only if staffing leaders are disciplined enough to do their part and get vendors to focus on needed changes as a priority."

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