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By Jason Collins<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite there being numerous job postings at executive levels, many of these roles remain stubbornly open. This presents a challenge to business leaders and recruiters on how to tap into candidate pools more effectively to fill needs in a shifting labor market.<\/p>\n

Academy of Management Scholar Sekou Bermiss<\/a> of the University of North Carolina\u2019s Kenan-Flagler Business School researched how candidate pools influence strategic leadership decisions. Bermiss said the reason why you hear stories of job openings not being filled is due to \u201ca disconnect between available labor and what companies think that they need to fill these roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo fix that disconnect, dropping some of the historic requirements for some of these jobs, so that the candidate pool could be expanded, should lead to more of these openings getting filled as well,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re starting to see a little bit of movement there around expanding the candidate pool to recruit talent for unfilled job openings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bermiss urged leaders to reconsider historic requirements in preparation for the \u201concoming silver tsunami\u201d of baby boomers retiring, which threatens to widen leadership gaps.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see a lot of very senior people retiring in the next five to 10 years, and there are not currently enough people who have the qualifications that we normally see in people who take on these leadership roles,\u201d Bermiss said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo adapt to the shifting labor market, the executive labor pipeline needs to be strengthened so that there are more people who are ready to step into C-suite, upper-level leadership, and senior management sorts of roles, and that they\u2019re prepared to do so successfully,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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