(Bloomberg Business) -- Be patient, job seekers: It's taking much longer to get hired in the U.S.
Candidates had to wait about 22.9 days for an offer or rejection in 2014, up from 12.6 days four years earlier, according to survey data from online job-search network Glassdoor Inc.
The longer wait time is largely due to a rise in the use of background checks for jobs, which have gotten cheaper to conduct, "as a proxy for judgment and quality of candidates for jobs" across fields, said Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor's chief economist.
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