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How Long a Job’s Open Before You Think There’s Something Wrong With it

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?”

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