Active vs. Passive Candidates

The ‘active’ candidate is that person who has registered their desire to find another job on a commercial on-line jobs board, like Monster.com. A candidate is considered ‘passive’ if they have not registered with on-line jobs boards. They are considered to be happily employed at present, but may be interested if the right opportunity comes along.

The CyberDivan helps you reach the 71% of users you won't find on job boards...(According to a well known research firm, only 29% of on-line users visit job boards) We find candidates with an online method that we have developed that uses email. Our methods find passive candidates fast! We often get responses within minutes. We find candidates that 75% of other recruiters miss because these candidates are not necessarily looking for a new job opportunity. These are often very high quality passive candidates that simply need to be recruited to a better opportunity.

As a part of our recruiting system, we do still monitor the active candidates because there are still many high quality candidates are using commercial job sites to register their desire to move on. For many, there is simply a need to further their career elsewhere, having perhaps reached a stage in their employer’s organization where they have achieved all that was asked of them.