You likely know about professional networks like LinkedIn. This puts you in a better position to fill future openings and greatly reduces your time to hire. So how do you reach more qualified candidates? By taking a proactive approach and engaging potential hires directly.Įven if you’re not filling open positions right now, adopting a proactive approach to recruiting allows you to build your candidate pipeline. This points to a huge gap in reactive recruiting strategies. Job postings are still an effective way to reach job seekers, but relying on this approach limits your talent pool.Ĭonsider that 73% of candidates are passive job seekers - these individuals are currently employed, but they’re not actively looking for a new job. If you need to fill a position, you’d post on job boards and sort through applications until you find a promising candidate. Recruiting talent has generally been reactive.