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title: Long Hiring Delays Are Costing Companies Candidates, While Pushing Time to Fill To Record Highs
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# [Long Hiring Delays Are Costing Companies Candidates, While Pushing Time to Fill To Record Highs](https://www.bostonsearchgroup.com/blog/long-hiring-delays-are-costing-companies-candidates-while-pushing-time-to-fill-to-record-highs)

 Written by [Clark Waterfall](https://www.bostonsearchgroup.com/blog/author/clark-waterfall) | Aug 2, 2016 8:01:16 AM

He who hesitates is lost. Especially hiring managers, who are increasingly losing candidates to competitors by lingering over hiring decisions. The mean time it took to fill a job across industries was 28.1 in September 2015, according to the “DHI-DHF Mean Vacancy Duration Measure”—and it is even higher in specific sectors. To fix this problem, hiring managers need to review this data—and perhaps face a reality check. [READ MORE »](http://www.eremedia.com/ere/long-hiring-delays-are-costing-companies-candidates-while-pushing-time-to-fill-to-record-highs/?platform=hootsuite)

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