15: Got Your Sea Legs

Published: March 9, 2013, 1 a.m.

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Dan is joined by Producer Haddie Cooke to take calls and discuss integrity.

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Links for this episode:

  • Jobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection - NYTimes.com
    The number of job openings has increased to levels not seen since the height of the financial crisis, but vacancies are staying unfilled much longer than they used to \\u2014 an average of 23 business days today compared to a low of 15 in mid-2009, according to a new measure of Labor Department data by the economists Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger.Some have attributed the more extended process to a mismatch between the requirements of the 4 million jobs available and the skills held by many of the 12 million unemployed. That\\u2019s probably true in a few high-skilled fields, like nursing or biotech, but for a large majority of positions where candidates are plentiful, the bigger problem seems to be a sort of hiring paralysis.\\n
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