Comments on: Sourcing and Recruiting a Mobile Workforce http://www.ere.net/2007/01/05/sourcing-and-recruiting-a-mobile-workforce/ Recruiting intelligence. Recruiting community. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:18:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Maureen Sharib http://www.ere.net/2007/01/05/sourcing-and-recruiting-a-mobile-workforce/comment-page-1/#comment-2248 Maureen Sharib Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:50:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/01/05/sourcing-and-recruiting-a-mobile-workforce/#comment-2248 Lou, with interest I read your remarks about the ERE article you wrote many years ago. I noticed in the employment market categories you remarked that some were ?increasing? and one was ?declining?. Tracking your keen discernment into today, I offer the following metrics as recent that support your perceptive observations of yesterday. I?d suggest your ?Very Active? category of yesterday, which you pegged at about 15 ? 20% of the total employment market, has increased to between 20 and 25%. Your ?Semi-Active? group has also increased from about 25% to maybe even as much as 35%; your ?Semi-Passive? group has continued to expand from your estimate of 25% to probably around 30% today. The largest difference I see in today?s employment market is in the group you pegged as ?declining?, the ?Very Passive? has indeed done so, from your 30% (several years ago) estimate to around 10 - 15% today. Your exhortation to all of us to continue to grow and change within our industry hopefully will be widely heard. I agree with you that opening a door is just the beginning ? closing it is every bit, if not more so, important! Lou, with interest I read your remarks about the ERE article you wrote many years ago. I noticed in the employment market categories you remarked that some were ?increasing? and one was ?declining?. Tracking your keen discernment into today, I offer the following metrics as recent that support your perceptive observations of yesterday.

I?d suggest your ?Very Active? category of yesterday, which you pegged at about 15 ? 20% of the total employment market, has increased to between 20 and 25%. Your ?Semi-Active? group has also increased from about 25% to maybe even as much as 35%; your ?Semi-Passive? group has continued to expand from your estimate of 25% to probably around 30% today. The largest difference I see in today?s employment market is in the group you pegged as ?declining?, the ?Very Passive? has indeed done so, from your 30% (several years ago) estimate to around 10 – 15% today.

Your exhortation to all of us to continue to grow and change within our industry hopefully will be widely heard. I agree with you that opening a door is just the beginning ? closing it is every bit, if not more so, important!

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