BountyJobs Headhunter Index Shows Third-Party Recruiting Upswing
Unique New BountyJobs Index Offers Insight into Hot Market Trends
NEW YORK – May 12, 2011 –BountyJobs, the online marketplace that connects corporate recruiters with a national network of seasoned headhunters in seconds, today announced encouraging news based on trends from the BountyJobs Headhunter Index, the first nationwide index that tracks jobs that companies fill using headhunters.
The most significant trend spotted in the first release of the survey, based on data through March 31, is that the third-party recruiting industry – recruiting done through the headhunter channel – rebounded sharply from the recession during the first quarter of 2011.
The BountyJobs Headhunter Index shows that despite the ravages that the recession brought to hiring and the recruiting industry:
- The number of jobs companies sent to headhunters surged in the first quarter of 2011, jumping 36 percent over the comparable quarter a year previously and reaching its highest level in two years.
- The average fee paid to headhunters throughout the recession stayed remarkably constant, hovering around 20 percent. It varied less than 0.6 percentage points between January 2009, when hiring through headhunters was at its lowest, and March 31, 2011.
- The average dollar amount of fees paid to headhunters has risen dramatically since the third quarter of 2009, signaling particular strength in the jobs being sent to third-party agencies.
As the preferred contingent search solution for more than one-third of the Fortune 500 and with more than 10,000 approved headhunters in its marketplace, BountyJobs is constantly tracking massive amounts of data on jobs that go to headhunting channels.
BountyJobs CEO Mike Hard said the jump in jobs posted with BountyJobs is an important leading indicator of broader hiring down the road.
"Jobs filled through headhunters are generally more senior-level positions and more critical to an organization, and that means they're a harbinger of either good or bad news in future hiring, depending on if their postings are up or down," Hard said.
Lou Adler, president of the Adler Group and a bestselling author and recruiting industry expert, agreed with Hard's assessment.
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