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Hiring, A Buyer's Market Once Again

Posted April 23, 2009 9:43 AM by Ted Jackson

There is always a silver lining. The economy has slowed, endowments have lost value and donations have declined. The hard work of the nonprofit sector is as needed now as ever. But this recession may help cure one of the critical crises facing the nonprofit sector today: the Senior Management Shortage.

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Laura,

Completely agree that there are more candidates out there. But interestingly, this may make it harder to find good ones. As Auren Hoffman argues, the increased "noise level" of C-players that have been laid off makes it harder to find the A-players that you need to grow the organization. Not sure I 100% buy into his argument, but it's interesting nonetheless.

http://blog.summation.net/2009/03/why-hiring-is-pa...

Dylan
# Posted By Dylan | 4/23/09 10:12 AM
Dylan -
You make an excellent point. To confront this challenge I would direct you and our readers to read an article in the May Harvard Business Review: The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad by Claudio Fernandez-Aaroz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria.
# Posted By Laura Downing | 4/23/09 6:24 PM
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