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Roughly one of every four companies that listed job openings for information professionals in the New England (U.S.) area during 2006-2008 used third-party search firms, up from just 6 percent during 1997-2005, according to an update of research originally reported in the April 2008 issue of Information Outlook.
James Matarazzo, a professor in the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Betsy Bellissimo, who is completing her MLIS degree at Simmons, found that the trend toward outsourcing the recruiting function is especially pronounced among employers searching for business management and insurance (B/M), science and engineering (S/E), and law librarians. In 2006 and 2007, for example, one-half of the vacancies posted for law librarians were from search firms.
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