Widgets are the best way to find passive candidates. A good job board widget brings the jobs to the professional websites where candidates spend their time, and makes it easy to upload their resume without distracting them, overloading them with questions, or scaring them off.
By definition passive candidates do not spend any time on job boards. But professionals do spend a lot of time on professional web sites. Statistics show that 27% of internet usage is people reading professional web sites. Time spent on job boards is so small as to not even be tracked. There may be several relevant professional websites in an industry. To maximise the chances of finding a passive candidate the best way is to find the professional web sites where they spend their time, and have interesting jobs scroll by, in a box on the sidebar. This is what job board widgets do. They are small html fragments that can be added to another web site to provide interesting content, such as job listings, a detailed job description, and a resume posting box.
If it is a good widget, with an interesting list of jobs, maybe the passive candidate's eyes will wander over there. Perhaps they will learn to always check out the list of jobs. Certainly many of the site users will find job listings to be valuable content that they appreciate.
With our widgets, once the candidate is interested, they can click to read about the job, they can click to upload their resume. Mission Accomplished. Could well be a historically "passive" candidate. Of course once the candidate is in our database, they are by definition no longer a passive candidate.
I believe that our widgets are the best at harvesting passive candidate's resumes. We keep the process really simple. Other widgets first take the candidate to their company's website, then direct the candidate to yet another job board. Some job boards ask lots of questions, frequently scaring off candidates. Every additional step reduces the probability that a given candidate will submit their resume.
Better to leave the passive candidate on the site they know, and just ask for a simple resume upload. That minimizes the chance of loosing them. Like fishing, you want them to take the bait, and not be scared off.
In my opinion our widgets are the best at catching passive candidates. In fact, I think that they are the only job board widgets designed to find passive candidates.
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