{"id":175349,"date":"2023-05-08T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175349"},"modified":"2023-05-08T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:27:06","slug":"9-in-10-small-businesses-face-hiring-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175349","title":{"rendered":"9 in 10 Small Businesses Face Hiring Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hiring.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7111\" src=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hiring-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 33.2 million small businesses in America, which have generated nearly two-thirds of all new jobs between 1995-2021, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/u12097671.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=9rudYHeevExQpJ5A1h-2BA7dnoeY1B6sIwv4fYa6Le7UdP7UNbMlQ7AyzbJdAOvzfwh79NmCxWphPUD7VQLCay8ydyuIsubX5egpgaIdrklaA-3DGiXM_UjA9ahbnrI6S9i-2F4Xk-2BlU-2BFEVRbOxwdxt1BYJ0l95oWBGpByi7rEI-2Fj2HFIFUe9hePQwel9GofBUSZSPtbu3D0DdYvU6AeMuVJxrxgcnmdTcYwtdjjQ-2FAfhU-2FjFmT9nNhsUuSmWYuWMm7kf4DjHi-2Bxz-2BwljnW-2BiJZCJlfS59gEdC-2BcMjnEB5V4263GyQIWUCYjWgdQJjLi7aV9FDQe4LSAkKijk8se8jDY0EbMBerRTpUkJBZ5U1UI1ZSuIhSoQRpIBi3bcXj6S6Y8GkHcG02jLbOQgZmb-2B4WnZglczOnBdFXmySmFZCRjoZA8ydtS5Fh6UL7CcSiZWNPDnpUgsyNsL-2F3vXO5w3x6iIgnl9pY7qejtN5gneCzYgR0wwHEOcUwK-2FeReZboieSRItAAEzvdARyle-2FpyPaHbTac3D8vBYvW-2B0nm567nrOW4qv91PW27mksH4M4r3BbPAJnZkDK1k0e7XSQ27myby54amogOdx8T14346dPsf8bs8bw1zzZ9Xe4avZFlXHfEhwydaPMR0HRwnaM1U5QJrazDRS1uv5Go1h8QosQlH9kFMSkHMazj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/a>. Yet, a persistent shortage of skilled workers is hitting them especially hard. With May being Small Business Month, I thought it could be a prime opportunity to spotlight the challenges small businesses face when hiring in today\u2019s market, as well as the benefits of working for a smaller organization right now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberthalf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Half<\/a> surveyed more than 500 hiring managers at small companies (under $50M in revenue) and the results paint a picture of where small businesses need help in refining their processes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>89% face recruiting challenges<\/li>\n<li>87% missed out on a good hire in the past year, the top reason being due to candidates&#8217; salary expectations being higher than what the company was willing to pay.<\/li>\n<li>32% have made a hiring mistake in the past year (compared to only 21% and 18% of managers at midsize and larger companies respectively)<\/li>\n<li>When it come to their most recent regrettable hire, it took 18 weeks on average to terminate the employee and restaff the position.\u00a0 That&#8217;s 4.5 months of wasted time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 33.2 million small businesses in America, which have generated nearly two-thirds of all new jobs between 1995-2021, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Yet, a persistent shortage of skilled workers is hitting them especially hard. With May being Small Business Month, I thought it could be a prime opportunity to spotlight the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-175349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-trends","tag-featured-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}