Had an ERE friend email me wherein this person offered a tirade after reading yet another ERE article about the joys of the passive candidate. “Doesn’t [the author] understand that there’s nothing damaged about active candidates? I’m sick and tired of reading the same article about ‘good passive, bad active’ month after month” In the spirit of decorum, I was forced to clean up the message for those of us possessing virgin ears…
This person has a point – so let me ask you: Based upon metrics, do your active candidates perform at a lower level than your passive ones upon making the transition to employees?
The Recruiting Inferno 