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Labor pains give birth to ingenuity in recruiting: Desperate employers look for workers in new places.(Brief Article)
Crain's Chicago Business, December, 1999 by LITTMAN, MARGARET
Merely hanging a "Help Wanted" sign in the window just won't cut it anymore. With the Chicago area at nearly full employment, many local businesses are being forced to go to unusual lengths to fill job openings. In fact, some are beginning to tap into non-traditional labor pools: retirees, stay-at-home moms, recent immigrants, welfare workers, high school and college students and even former prisoners.
According to figures released last month by the U.S. Department of Labor, the nationwide unemployment rate was down to 4.1% in October, the lowest level in almost three decades. That's contributed to what one local employer called a "recruitment stonewall." `Guerrilla tactics' "I think the system is changing forever," says John A. Challenger, CEO of...
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