How Companies Find Candidates to Hire - CareerXroads 2006 Study

A recent CareerXroads study, conducted by Jerry Crispin and Mark Mehler, was conducted to reveal how companies found new candidates in 2006. Here are the results:

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Data was gathered by:
* CareerXroads asked 200 major companies to participate; 54 firms responded within 30 days, and of that number, 40 submitted fully qualifying information.
* The 40 companies participating in the survey employ 1,281,429 people.
* 1,880 recruiters filled 207,702 full-time U.S. openings in 2006.
* Approximately 60% of all the hires reported were for exempt-level employees (58% of internal fills and 64% of external fills.)
* Contract, part-time, and contingent workers are a growing percentage of the workforce; only 10% of the respondents have no contract workers.

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