Mike Beresford, managing director of Randstad Technologies, said, " T ech professionals are far more concerned about the length of time a vacancy ' s been advertised than the rest of the UK ' s workforce. They work in a fast paced world which rapidly evolves every day. A stagnant recruitment process signals alarm bells. Recruiting for a tech post is like trying to sell your house. Leave it on the market too long and, for whatever reason, people start to think there is something wrong with it. That leads to fewer applications and increased pressures on the rest of the staff left trying to cover the empty position. We know tech professionals already feel they are p erforming the job of one and a half people. If they ' re cramming an extra two and a half days worth of work into a working week, they are going to find it extremely difficult to cover for vacant job posts, too. "