Hospitals were hiring competition lawyers, waits were getting longer and patients were being told they had to go private to get timely treatment, he said.
Even with the hiring competition from dot-com companies all but gone, after having dominated executive recruiting in 1998 and 1999, management experts say top jobs outnumber good candidates.
Remember that time Apple, Google, Intel and other major tech companies were named in a civil suit where ex-employees claimed that they had all conspired to eliminate hiring competition at the top of the U.S. tech world?
Because few Chinese went to college until the last decade, much less to graduate school, most universities find themselves in hiring competitions — with one another and with companies all over China that are struggling to find middle managers and executives.
When it comes to getting hired, competition is on the rise.
The museum is in the midst of hiring the competition winner, Eric Owen Moss Architects, of Culver City, Calif.
Stephanie Maddox, the general manager for a nearby Chili's restaurant, said that she, too, was hiring, citing competition for workers.
When he changes his mind and hires the competition, her anger is understandable.
Scott Miller, formerly with the team owned by Richard Childress, was hired as competition director, and Bowyer moved from Childress's team to drive.
Schwarz is hiring amid growing competition for retail employees in New York.
The complaint that Bloomberg buys elections has this time around shifted, amid a dismal fund-raising climate, to a somewhat more troubling one about his using his wallet to preëmpt any real competition — hiring political operatives, in effect, not to work for anyone else.
