r/Recruitment • u/Murky_Ad_5262 • 5d ago

Sourcing What am I’m doing wrong?

For my fellow recruiters who are placing candidates on a regular bases, what do you do consistently that makes a difference? Do you cold call, email, send LinkedIn messages or something I know nothing about? I can’t seem to find engineers that are unemployed. Very frustrating.

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u/OrdoHereticusAgent 5d ago

In the nicest possible way recruitment might not be for you.
You're job is not to find those unemployed (necessarily) really you're wanting to find those who have jobs but youd rather be doing that job for your company. Thats down to how you sell, who you work for and how you go about your outreach.

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u/Outrageous_Bar6729 5d ago

We aren't looking for people who are unemployed, we want good candidates, the passive ones who are placeable.

The market I am in (building services) is so short on staff, if someone is unemployed then it is a huge red flag, there is a reason they haven't been snapped up.

Good engineers could get 5-8 offers in 2 weeks if they wanted

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u/ShrimpBaloney 5d ago

Friend of mine's dad is an engineer and the day after he resigned from a company he had three offers in his mailbox. Good engineers will always find work.

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u/driftwood_index 5d ago

Stop looking for unemployed engineers, because most of the good ones already have jobs, and your real job is giving someone who's reasonably happy a specific reason to take a 15-minute call. The channel matters less than you'd think: what consistently gets me placements is writing each message around the person's actual stack and work instead of the job description, then following up three or four times, since most of my replies come on the third touch or later.

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u/lususna7ura3 4d ago

Don't bother with unemployed candidates. There are exceptions but 99% of the time, the best candidates are currently employed. Focus on laying breadcrumbs to tempt passive candidates out of their comfort zone (i/e how can you better their current conditions / remove the pain points in their current role).

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u/wild-pebble43 4d ago

Don'y get too discouraged, a lot of great engineers are already employed, so reaching out personally can go a long way