Changing Search for Employees
» Changing Search for Employees, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2001
If respondent thinks labor market tight AND responds by spending more time and effort recruiting employees.
14E1. (impact of tight labor market) What type of recruiting activity have you increased most?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newspaper advertising | 33 | ||
| 2 | Contacts through schools | 11 | ||
| 3 | Interviewing and reference checks | 9 | ||
| 4 | Radio advertising | 1 | ||
| 5 | Informally spreading the word you are looking for employees | 37 | ||
| 6 | Help wanted signs | 6 | ||
| 7 | Other | 0 | ||
| 8 | DK/Refuse | 4 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 212 | |||
Notes: Thirty-three (33) percent of small employers who think the local labor market is tight and respond by spending more time and effort recruiting increased newspaper advertsing more than any other recruiting activity (Q#14E1).
