Inside the Brain of a Passive Candidate, From Entelo 2 Comments
It’s a hiring managers dream. To have their recruiter source and sell a “passive” candidate on the req. Right or wrong, candidates get labeled from passive to active and everything in between. The reality is there is a group of candidates not looking for their next opportunity.
Entelo, a talent search engine which is launching today has put together a white paper touching on the 18 signals of passive candidates, what their behavior is like and what it takes to accept a recruiter’s call.
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Not sure I agree with the implied definition of a Passive Candidate used here. The infographic suggests that when people start doing certain things that indicate they are about to become active candidates, this is when a recruiter can strike to land the passive candidate.
I would argue that this is giving recruiters an early heads up that a candidate is about to become active – and so giving them a head start in hiring active candidates. A passive candidate isn’t actively looking and therefore isn’t doing the types of things suggested in this infographic that would indicate they are becoming active…
getting tired of the classificiations of candidates and over used terms….I recruit for talent…period. Passive, active, passively-active, passive aggressive, actively passive….I don’t care. I will find you….and I want to talk to you.