HONG KONG RECRUITERS URGED TO CUT HIRING DELAYS TO GUARANTEE TALENT RETENTION

THERE are growing calls for Hong Kong-based recruiters to re-think and speed up their hiring processes, after a latest study found that they are losing the best talent to unnecessary HR decision delays. More than 72% of 500 Hong Kong job seekers have taken a second job “because their preferred employer took too long to give them an answer,” recruitment specialist Robert Half found in a study published last month (May 17). And complex recruitment processes used by many HK employers means more than half (54%) of candidates have waited longer than a month to ...


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