Active Sourcing
The identification and engagement of promising employees and candidates from the external labour market will be an important competitive advantage in the coming years. A frequently utilised method is the tendering of direct-search contracts to external agencies, but these are often not cost-optimised and also not successful in every case.
A sensible alternative is the introduction of Active Sourcing. Active Sourcing optimises your direct-search activities and offers the chance to once again situate the great majority of the recruiting process within the personnel department.
This insourcing of direct-search activities puts your personnel department in the position to implement targeted campaigns in the labour market at significantly reduced prices.
The basis of these activities is the personal contact to potential applicants and employees in order to build a long-term relationship with them. The goal is maintain personal contact to the applicant until they can be recruited. The relationship hinders the talent from being lost to competitors during the recruitment phase.
Our approach includes both the cultivation of informal, formal, and social networks as well as the IT-supported search in the relevant databanks. While the IT-supported search for applicants is dominated by the time factor, building personal, informal or formal networks is a medium-term approach.
All of the results of Active Sourcing are structured and gathered in a talent pool so that the recruiter can have a constant overview of the number of applicants, their data, status, and contact history.
A common, additional instrument of Active Sourcing is an employee recommendation programme, for which we also offer an optional service.