Human resources job hunters with generalist skills are the most in demand these days.
That's what a study by the Society for Human Resource Management found when 423 human resources professionals offered input to an email survey designed to find out who hiring managers consider prime candidates today and to test the job market confidence levels of respondents.
Big picture, the results suggest the hiring market is sluggish for HR professionals, with only 27 percent of companies indicating they were currently seeking to fill HR positions. That's up from 20 percent in January 2014 but shows no change since December 2014. Small companies basically aren't filling such positions at all; 99 percent of those that are hiring self identified as large employers.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
