WANTED : PASSIVE CANDIDATES

By:
Krishna Kumar
Abhishek Mishra
Avik Sarkar
Ayan Halder
Abhishek Kumar Das
Biswajit Nayak

Source: Times ascent, times of india, 12, january 2011

 What are Passive candidates?
 What are Active candidates?
 Why do organizations prefer passive over active
candidates?
“ONLY THE EMPLOYED NEED APPLY”
 Soumya has been on a break from her career due
to her marriage and to get settled.
 To re-start her career, she started browsing
through several job sites, and there were and no
vacancies .
POST RECESSION
 Organizations were severely affected by the
economic downturn.
 Core teams were formed.
 Job cuts across all industry verticals.
OUTCOMES OF RECESSION?

 A vast talented pool were jobless.

 Companies were interested in applicants who
were the survivors/winners.
 Passive job seekers were and are preferred.
WHY PASSIVE SEEKERS?

 Vacancies needed to be filled that require

exceptional people with different skill sets than
what exist in the active job pool.
 They are trained, experienced and quality
candidates who save an organization's money.
 Acts as a filter when companies look to hunt for
the “best talent”.
WHAT IS THE MANTRA THEN?
 Unemployed may have to compromise with respect
to their package, position or profile of the company
where they have been working.
 Update their skills, higher or
professional/vocational education or training to be
more employable.
 If they are up in the hierarchy , take up lectures in
institutes, impart their knowledge and be domain
experts.
MANTRA CNTD.
 Those who are facing hardships, keep strong
senior-level references from the previous
employer.
 And the rest don’t get disheartened, go ahead and
show them your worth and will certainly shine
through.