Your Career: How to Cope With a Fast-Paced Candidates’ Market

Colleges continue to face stiff competition to fill staff and administrative positions across higher ed. ADVERTISEMENT [Your Career Logo]( Did someone forward you this newsletter? [Sign up free]( to receive your own copy. You can now read The Chronicle on [Apple News]( [Flipboard]( and [Google News](. Colleges continue to face stiff competition to fill staff and administrative positions across higher ed. Ask almost any hiring manager what their experience has been in filling positions during recent years, and they’ll tell stories of dwindling applicant pools, underwhelming résumés, and a fast-paced “candidates’ market” where they’re forced to vie with private-sector employers and their peers for top talent. Nearly 80 percent of college leaders, hiring managers, and administrators who responded to a recent survey that The Chronicle conducted in June 2022 (with the support of the Huron Consulting Group) said their campus has more open positions this year than last, and 84 percent said that hiring for administrative and staff jobs has been more difficult in the last year. Many job-market experts noted the need to re-examine higher ed’s typically slow hiring process, which often hems in colleges when they try to land top talent on a deadline. Some survey respondents used some form of the word “aggressive” to describe how their approach to hiring had changed in the past year. Continue reading: “[Free Report: Hiring for Success]( by Megan Zahneis Share your suggestions for the newsletter with Denise Magner, an editor at The Chronicle, at denise.magner@chronicle.com. 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