Getting access to quality passive candidates is important to the health
of a recruiter’s business even in an employer’s job market. Below are a few tips on how recruiters
can get access to quality passive job candidates before their competitors:
- Start
building relationships with passive candidates before they start looking
for a job. How do you do
this? Connect with the
quality players in your industry online and offline. Get them to agree to receive your
newsletter, blog or to join your online social network. Take the time to cultivate those
relationships over time by staying in contact and offering them valuable
information and resources.
- Ask active
job candidates to connect you to two of the best people they have worked
with in the past. You can
even offer a referral reward for that connection. Oftentimes, active job candidates
know the best passive job candidates before they ever begin actively
searching for their next job.
- Attend
networking events in your field that are not job search related. Many of the best employees attend
conferences, lectures and events related to their field to stay abreast of
current events and trends. If
you take the time to attend these events and properly network you could
begin building a cache of contacts that will make you that more valuable
to clients.