Recruiter News Line

In case you haven’t heard, the sky may be falling. Due to some serious losses across the stock market, and even heavier losses expected after a fire sale in the foreign markets, a lot of economic pundits are scrambling around the farmhouse like Chicken Little predicting the arrival of another recession.

I’m not here to predict whether America will fall into an officially named economic slump or not. There are far better qualified men than me to help you with that. No, I’m going to clue you in on the fact that for recruiters, business is about to pick up.

Like peanut butter goes with chocolate, job hunts go with fears of recessions. It doesn’t matter if the recession actually materializes, just the threat of it being the lead story on every nightly news cast is enough to make people start polishing up their résumés and steadying themselves for the worst – being laid off.

You’ll soon be contacted by the first wave of nervous employees hoping to shore up their futures with a new job. At the very least they want a job with less potential for being laid-off than the one they have now.

Which means it’s time to really start reaching out to the companies on your client list and start seeing what jobs will be open for this sudden influx of eager candidates. The good news is that you should see a higher percentage of highly qualified candidates, each with a high degree of interest in changing jobs. Now, all you have to do is find the jobs for them.