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| | The Human Resources: Recruiting, Hiring, and Staffing Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Passive Searching | Views: 1306 | | Apr 07, 2008 10:51 am | | Passive Searching | # | 
Mike Clark | |
Hi Group
I am a newbie to Ryze. Having spent the last 10 years developing online search tools for passive candidates, my impressions are that the industry at large (recruiting, headhunting, sourcing) has changed quite a bit, and continues to change with technology and the economy. In 1998 I was in the web hosting business, and one of my clients was an SAP recruiter. He called me up one day and said, "Look what I learned how to do!" -- which was to make some smart searches on HotBot.
I knew nothing about recruiting, but I took his concepts and wrote a tool called flipsearch.com, which applied the concept of "inclusion" and "exclusion" terms to online searches on several search engines. Of course this was pre-Google. Well, AIRS came along and made me an offer, and the technology became their first search tool. I then wrote Resume Robot, which did very well until the dot com bust drove so many recruiters out of business, but the tool is still alive and well. However the playing field has changed a lot.
First, most sourcers are now more sophisticated in their searches, and can make accurate searches of Google, Yahoo and Live without third-party tools. Second, the difference between "active" and "passive" candidates has blurred, as membership in networking sites like Ryze and Linkedin has grown enormously. Third, RPO recruitment process outsourcing has made big strides. And of course the economic ups and downs dramatically affect the recruiting industry.
So let me finish with a couple questions:
How do recruiters use passive searching today? How much a role or part or percent of your total sourcing routine does passive search play, in your field and in the current market? What are the long-term results of passive searching, as opposed to placing ads on job boards, or searching monster/careerbuilder/hotjobs/dice?
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Mike Clark
www.networkhunter.com
email (mike at networkhunter dot com)
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Private Reply to Mike Clark | | Apr 08, 2008 4:50 am | | Passive Searching | # | 
s venkatesan | | Very interesting to read about the search process etc,
well Mike, am not sure how the passive search works in US, back India we have to look for resource who occupy similar position in similar organisation or the target organisation, then one does discuss in detail with the resource without mentioning the client, only sell him the position the values it brings to him, this is after understanding his current role and responsibilities also his experience, i.e we take the profile of the person, then go about selling the position and the background of the organisation without the name, when the resource agrees to have a look without any commitment then we take it forward.
These is sometimes we wake up a dormant candidate.Private Reply to s venkatesan | | Aug 07, 2008 6:39 pm | | re: Passive Searching | # | 
Dennis Dsouza | | HI Mike,
I am a Technical Recruiter for US staffing and Recruitment,
Well most of my searches are on job boards and own database of referrals,
Passive sourcing for me involves putting relevant search strings in search engines and getting their online resumes, some times networking as you mentioned linkedin, facebook, myspace and many more and sometimes techy blogs...you tend to find pros leaving comments on forums or blogs with their email addresses and sometimes their field of expertise.
Well their you have it passive sourcing for me.
Thanks and Regards
Dennis Dsouza
dennisdsouza@ymail.comPrivate Reply to Dennis Dsouza | | |
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