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Tips to attract & hire passive candidates

Attracting and hiring passive candidates is not as easy as it sounds. Here are a few tips that will help you to attract & hire passive candidates: 1.  Present a compelling case as to why your passive candidate should work for you or your client. 2.  Find out the candidate's motivating factor and work on it. If you get this one correct, you will have a better   chance of convincing her. 3.  Don't position the opportunity as a mere job; project it as a major career opportunity that entices your candidate. 4.  If you find that the candidate is not the right fit, stay in touch with her to leverage the candidate's network.     You might get a referral. 5. While closing, ensure that you don't exceed the budget. Because, you are offering a major career opportunity and not just salary.

Place Job Ads for Passive Candidates in the Right Places

Source: eGrabber Passive job seekers will not usually visit job portals but they might frequent websites that regularly provide interesting stories and research information. Passive candidates constantly look for web resources that will help them hone their area of expertise to learn something new that can help their careers. By placing your job ad in a website that caters to an industry or profession, you increase the likelihood of passive prospects looking into the work opportunities that they might not have considered otherwise.

Is Search Keywords important for a recruiter?

With the advent of Google, sourcing people and resume has become much more convenient and faster. "Googling" for passive and active candidates has become one of the primary responsibility of any recruiter. A recruiter must be able to identify the right keywords to source active and passive candidates. To identify the right keywords the recruiters has to master the art of understanding the Client's requirements to identify the right keywords. Let's analyze about the tool that helps the recruiter to google efficiently in the next session.