With the prospect of getting past COVID-19 now looking more realistic each week, employers are trying to figure out how to scale up operations efficiently. For many, this means hiring a lot of new employees—and fast.
You’d think hiring would be easy in a labor market with high unemployment levels, but employers are finding it’s not always that cut and dry. Although there is a large pool of applicants, not all of them are qualified for a given vacancy, and employers still have plenty of competition. Combine that with the need for a larger scale of hiring than in the past, and it’s easy to see why some employers are wondering how to go about this in the coming months.