Good Applicants Are Now Few and Far Between

Hi,

You probably don’t hear from my side of the desk too often, but I’m an employer who has a question for you. Since you’re the one who speaks to candidates, maybe you can shed some light on our employment challenge.

First, we’ve been trying to hire for the past year, with very little success. We used to have way more applicants than we could handle. Now, the good applicants are few and far between.

Second, we’ve noticed a new trend with our existing employees. The salary and raise requests we’ve been getting more recently are surprising. People with just a few years of experience seem to think they deserve large salaries for jobs that we don’t feel justify the requests.

Is this the new economy? Do we blame Covid? What are you hearing from potential employees?