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Four or more job offers for 35% of candidates? WTF?

Mitch Sullivan

Written by: Mitch Sullivan

We’ve probably all seen numerous LinkedIn posts where people have poured out their heart about how arduous their search for a job has been and how desperate they’ve become.

Many share details on applications sent, interviews attended and even how many times they’ve been ghosted. Some have gone as far as to suggest they’re close to not being able to pay the rent or put food on the table.

The other day I accidentally bumped into an article whilst doing some research on something else, and read this;

“Over one third (35 per cent) of candidates claimed to have received four or more offers during their last search.”

It was one of those “WTF?!” moments.

How can a third of the working population be getting 4 or more job offers, while hundreds, maybe even thousands of otherwise suitably experienced people are struggling to even get interviews?!

Is this that ubiquitous “top talent” we keep hearing about?

What we don’t know is what percentage of those candidates are in jobs that are in high demand. I’m guessing there weren’t too many job-seeking recruiters included in this survey.

If you know someone who works at Gartner who could shed some light on this, please get in touch?

Thanks.

If you would like more thoughts and musings on recruitment, you might want to download Mitch’s free book “On Recruitment”.

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