BSG Executive Search Blog

Long Hiring Delays Are Costing Companies Candidates, While Pushing Time to Fill To Record Highs

Written by 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 »