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Qualified Job Candidates More Likely to Ask for Higher Salary

There's good news for job candidates. A new study sponsored by Robert Half International (RHI) and CareerBuilder.com, reports that finding qualified job candidates has become more challenging for employers, resulting in job candidates being more likely to ask for a higher salary. 57 percent of the hiring managers polled said it was difficult to find qualified candidates one year ago and 91 percent said it was equally or more challenging to find qualified candidates today. More than half of hiring managers who are experiencing difficulty recruited cited a shortage of qualified professionals. Professional and technical staff members were found to be the most difficult to recruit with forty-three percent of employers indicating they are struggling to find candidates for these positions, an increase of 37 percent the previous year. 17 percent reported difficulty filling director, manager, supervisor and team leader positions an increase of two points from the previous year.

Job candidates have leveraged the situation to their advantage; 58 percent of workers polled for the study said that they are more likely to negotiate a better compensation package than they were one year ago. The survey results also show that these are the types of positions for which employers are most likely to increase compensation.

Of course, this is great news for experienced job candidates, and perhaps even good news for less experienced candidates who may find more opportunities open up as a result of this situation.

MarketingHire.com Enhances Our Marketing Salary and Marketing Job Trends Section

MarketingHire.com regularly publishes marketing salary surveys and monitor salary and hiring trends in our Marketing Salary Tools and Maketing Jobs Trends Section, which is useful whether you are seeking a new job, have an upcoming review, just want to monitor your value in the marketplace or if you're looking to hire new marketing staff. We're delighted to announce that we've recently made some major enhancements to this section and have partnered with Salary.com to add a greater level of depth.

Our Marketing Salary Tools and Marketing Job Trends Section now includes a Salary.com marketing job salary wizard that enables you to type in your location and find average salaries, salary ranges and job descriptions for similar positions in similar industries. Of course, our salary tools are not only useful for those seeking marketing jobs, they're useful for anyone marketing professional as a means to check your marketplace value -- especially before the next job review -- and for any manager tasked with reviewing or hiring marketing staff.

We invite your feedback on how we're doing, which features you like best, which you think could be better and your suggestions on features you'd like to see.

- MarketingHire.com Team
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