Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web

Recruiting Roundup: This week how to select the perfect candidate, why candidates reject jobs and more ... this week's top recruiting stories from around the web.

What’s in demand? computer science
The U.S. Department of Labor projects that employment of computer scientists will increase by
19% through 2020 and a 2011 report by the Computing Research Association (CRA) found that
the number of students enrolling in college computer science programs has increased for the last
three years.

Why “Name-only” Employee Referrals Produce Dramatic Results
Employee referrals provide the highest quality and the highest volume of hires, but you won’t
receive as high a level of results if you don’t minimize roadblocks to referrals. Requiring a current
resume for employee referrals is a major “under-the-radar” detriment to reaching the goal of
having referrals exceed 50% of all hires.

Reasons for Post-Acceptance Job Rejections
With last month’s unemployment rate at 7.8 percent, it doesn’t seem likely that anyone in this
economy would turn down a job offer, especially after already accepting the position. Yet, that is
not the case.

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Nearly Five Percent of U.S. Workers Are Age Sixty-Five Plus
A recent CareerBuilder study shows 57 percent of workers age 60 plus said they would look for a
new job after retiring from their current company, showing that retirement no longer means the
end of one’s career. In fact, an estimated 4.7% of jobs are held by workers who are 65 years of
age and over, up from 4% in 2001. That amounts to seven million jobs.

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