69 Percent of Employed Are Job Hunting

"The best people are working for someone else."  

I don't know who said that but they are 95% right. He/She who have the best people have the best company.

"Best" means they not only have the right skills but share the culture, core values and core purpose of your company as well as are accountable for results, not simply being busy.

Survey: 69 Percent of Employed Are Job Hunting
So this survey cuts both ways - 69% of your people are open to a move. The best may be looking because you let the others get by and they see it every day and ask themselves "why doesn't the boss do something about them?"

But it also shows that there are people out there, that if you are always recruiting, are willing to go on your Virtual Bench and be there when you are ready to hire. Keep your eyes and ears open all the time. Block an hour a week to doing something that involves recruiting "A Players" for your bench.

If you have a bench of "A Players" ready, it makes it a lot easier to let the "C Players" you have now go. You can replace them knowing you don't have to do a recruiting blitz, something that takes a lot of time, we dread and usually rush to get a body on board.  

Write down each of your employees names and ask yourself the Netflix question:

If he/she walked in tomorrow and said they were leaving in two weeks to go to work for a competitor, "how hard would I fight to keep them?"

I'll bet it would be a relief to you if one or two did that. If so they need to be replaced but you probably don't do it because you think about having to find someone else and you dread recruiting. Do it a little at a time - always be recruiting - will solve this issue and 69% of the people employed are open to a change.

Survey Results

75% of working-age Americans are "job seekers" - they're currently looking for or open to a new job - according to an online survey of more than 2,100 people by the hiring software company Jobvite.  

Among the employed respondents to the 2012 Social Job Seeker Survey, 69 percent said they were either "actively seeking" a new job or "open to" a new job. That number is up from 61 percent in Jobvite's 2011 survey.  

"Job seekers ... intuitively know that the best opportunities are found through people, not search engines," Finnigan told Forbes. "As social networking has become a core part of our cultural dynamic, we are continuing to see more and more job hunters taking advantage of a vertical they are comfortable with in order to find work."

All the best, 

Rick Wallace