Hiring Trends

QUESTION: Is your company or organization more likely to add employees,
reduce the number of employees or maintain staffing levels between now and the
end of the year?

Add employees: 29% Reduce employees: 6% Maintain staffing: 65%

QUESTION: When you are filling a mid-management or upper-management post
at your company or organization, which source do you turn to first?

Run a newspaper classified ad: 29%

Post on an Internet job site: 0%

Pursue professional contacts: 47%

All of the above equally: 24%

QUESTION: What basic policy do you follow with regard to references?

Always check references: 76% Occasionally check: 6% Varies by candidate: 18%

QUESTION: Were you satisfied with the experience/talent level of the candidates
who applied for the last job you had to fill at your company or organization?

Yes: 76% No: 24%