by Todd Raphael (ere.net)
If you’ve ever shopped for a house, you know that after a certain number of days on the market, you start to wonder, “What’s wrong with this house?”
Something like that goes on with jobs. After a certain point, some folks ask themselves, “why hasn’t this job been filled?”
That point is somewhere around 72 days.
Randstad asked 2,000 people, “How many working days does a vacancy for a permanent job have to be open before it starts to look like a bad job that no one wants?”