Everybody assumes that every job you post will result in an onslaught of candidates during a down economy.  Additionally, you should be able to do talent upgrades in a bad economy, right?.  After all, you have people being laid-off in droves, why wouldn’t recruiting be easier?

Heck, we don’t even need to source anymore – just take the 500 resumes and pick the best one.  There are bound to be some good ones in that stack.  That’s the case made at Workforce Recruiting this week in an article by Fay Hansen.

Nice thought, but wrong on many levels.  The worst combination you can have is a bad economy and your hiring manager reading about said economy in USA Today. Here’s why – stay with me on this one.

–Reading about job losses actually makes your hiring manager more picky. That means the volume really isn’t going to help you.  They’ve read about how rough it is out there, so they assume the purple squirrel they have in mind has lost his/her job.  They’re wrong, but it doesn’t matter.  They believe it…

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Article: Posted by Kris Dunn on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 07:05 A