Finding employment as an academic is becoming increasingly challenging for several reasons, including the tightening employment market and increases in the qualifications demanded of jobseekers and the pool of academically trained job seekers. A two-round Delphi study was therefore conducted to identify recruitment channels in the hidden labor market and the knowledge and skills that academics in Finland and elsewhere need in order to get a job. Fourteen experts returned the study questionnaire and participated in a virtual discussion forum via the Internet. According to the experts, the following factors affect recruitment from the hidden labor market: applicants' activity; applicants' qualifications; applicants' ability to market their qualifications; applicants' personal contacts; applicants' work experience; applicants' ability to utilize atypical employment; and funding raised by applicants or their information on possible funding sources. The experts believed that, compared with formal recruiting, informal recruiting saves time and money and results in the identification of higher-quality employees. The higher quality of employees hired through informal sources was explained through two theories the prescreening hypothesis and the realistic job information hypothesis. According to the experts surveyed, Finland's hidden labor market currently holds work opportunities for academics with active personalities and multiple skills. (20 references) (MN)