I live in the Washington DC metro area and for years it has been very evident that I am working in one of the toughest recruiting markets in the nation. We have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country which makes it very difficult to find good candidates who are ready to make a career move. However, I never knew what "toughest recruiting market" meant until I recently accepted a position as a corporate technical recruiter for a government contractor. I went from having a choice of candidates (and maybe not the pick of the litter, but it ...