(Bloomberg Business) -- Be patient, job seekers: It's takingmuch longer to get hired in the U.S.
Candidates had to wait about 22.9 days for an offer or rejectionin 2014, up from 12.6 days four years earlier, according to surveydata from online job-search network Glassdoor Inc.
The longer wait time is largely due to a rise in the use ofbackground checks for jobs, which have gotten cheaper toconduct, "as a proxy for judgment and quality of candidates forjobs" across fields, said Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor'schief economist.
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