If you caught Kevin Wheeler's recent ERE article, you already know about the rising popularity of recruiting blogs. At ZoomInfo, we’ve been advocates of recruiting blogs for several years now, and recently sponsored RecruitingBlogs.com's "Best of 2007" awards. We believe blogs help accelerate the exchange of ideas and flow of information and that the entire recruiting industry benefits from this.
One of the hot topics in the recruiting blogosphere today is passive candidate recruiting. Increased competitive pressure, the impending retirement of the baby boomers, active candidates' increased visibility, and even the shortage of university students pursuing careers in science and engineering have all been cited as problems that passive candidate recruiting can help solve. But is passive candidate recruiting really the panacea that proponents claim it is?
In this month's ZoomInformer, industry commentator Amitai Givertz gives us a unique perspective on passive candidate recruiting, when it can be useful, and how companies can use it to create a sustainable competitive advantage.
I hope you enjoy the article.
Tad Goltra
GM and VP, Recruiting Business Unit
Passive candidate recruiting: A place to start building your competitive advantage
Amitai Givertz
Principal, AMG Management Advisors
Industry Observer, Activist
Passive candidate recruiting: What’s all the fuss about?
Passive candidate recruiting is generating plenty of buzz among industry observers, vendors and employers. For recruiters in the trenches, the debate raises important questions like, "What's all the fuss about and why is this important to me?" and "How does recruiting passive candidates help build competitive advantage?"
Simple answers to these questions are hard to come by. The competing interests of those in the recruiting industry along with the differences in employers' shape, size and markets makes a one-size-fits-all solution impossible to imagine.
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