“If managers speak to a really great candidate, instead of hiring him, they take it as an indication that there must be 10 even better people out there.”

Today’s Wall Street Journal printed an interesting piece which articulates the frustration of many executive recruiters: click here.

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Positions that typically took two months to fill before the recession are sometimes taking four times longer, recruiters say, as hiring managers are holding out for better candidates.

This becomes especially frustrating for us when the hiring manager comes to the conclusion, months into the search, that one of the candidates initially presented was the one they would like to hire. Since the job market has picked up that candidate may have already settled into a new position, and now additional candidates presented must fill the shoes of “the one that got away”.

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