Industry Pulse: HRE hiring has been heating up this year

Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones

Increasing confidence has created a hot market for top-tier talent

When the U.S. economy tanked, the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector was not immune.Although the subsequent downsizings at some firms were obviously difficult for those who lost their jobs, they were also painful for those who had to make those hard decisions, says Kevin Jones, managing partner of the Pittsburgh-based executive search firm The Jones Group.

That “survivors’ guilt” had a chilling effect on hiring – even after business began to pick up in 2011 and 2012. Worried that the recovery wouldn’t last, some HRE executives were hesitant to hire because they didn’t want to endure future layoffs.

But that has changed in the past year or so as

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