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It’s a job seekers’ market in Hall County
Record number of jobs, lowest jobless rate in state make hiring tough
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Ethan Dalton, left, of Stone Mountain, and Mason Murray, of Cornelia, weld the backsides of prison cells on Thursday, May 3, 2018, in Baldwin, at SteelCell of North America Inc. SteelCell partners with Spherion Staffing Services to hire workers. Candidates for open positions are assessed by SteelCell and work 520 hours before becoming full-time employees. Dalton and Murray are both workers with Spherion where they are on track to becoming full-time SteelCell employees. - photo by David Barnes
Stacey Reece may tell a business he’s got the perfect job candidate for them — someone who should be interviewed that day. Sometimes, a company official will try to push off meeting the person until the next day. By the next day, “that person has accepted a job somewhere else,” said Reece, franchise owner of Spherion Staffing Services in Gainesville. “That happens day in and day out.”