Uncover the Passive Talent Market

Cracking the "secret code" between passive and active candidates in a candidate short market can often be the make or break of businesses, especially in those niche markets. Think about it, we want that top talent to join our organisation, we're doing all the right things, marketing, advertising, creating a phenomenal company culture, retaining our invaluable employees, yet you potentially still aren't reaching that "gold spot" of passive talent. In a market where there is so much competition and the candidate has power of multiple choices it's imperative to have some reach on passive candidates too.

Passive candidates are those candidates who aren't actually looking for a new role yet, they're either open to new opportunities that catch their attention and not actively applying for roles, or they're completely not looking and would only consider roles when approached directly. Passive candidates make up at least 75% of the workforce right now in New Zealand alone. During my time in agency recruitment, these candidates are the most placable, simply because they are skilled, have a good track record, and likely not interviewing with your competitors.

Xref now has a way of helping you engage with that passive candidate workforce. We've heard and listened to our current clients in the industry and invested in upgrading our features to help our clients engage in that passive space.

How have we done that? With PEOPLE SEARCH.

We now have a feature within our platform that facilitates referee's to become future candidates for the business, creating a passive, easy to use and searchable database for our clients. You can filter by job title and region, then contact the candidate with possible roles of interest within the business. All of this done easily within a few clicks within the Xref platfrom. Why not leverage off that relationship your employees have with their referees during the reference process?

So in addition to creating a smooth, candidate centric reference experience with built in fraud detection for your business, we can also help tap into that passive market through our People Search functionality. But that's not all Xref does. We have a few more exciting features up our sleeve so keep a look out for more!