EP029 - What is quiet hiring and how to hire passive candidates with Austin Chan of RemoteGoGo
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What is quiet hiring and how to hire passive candidates with Austin Chan of RemoteGoGo
About the episode
This episode focuses on the shiny new trend: quiet hiring. It is always hard to find people not actively looking for a job. How can we connect employers, recruiters, and headhunters? How to find candidates passively? To discuss, I have Austin Chan, founder of RemoteGoGo, which helps recruiters and companies to find passive candidates.
About the guest
Austin is a software engineer turned solopreneur and founder at RemoteGoGo, an online platform aggregating recruitment agencies and individual recruiters. He helps remote-first companies hire undiscovered passive candidates globally and help recruiters or staffing agencies get clients.
About the host
My name is Peter Benei, founder of Anywhere Consulting. My mission is to help and inspire a community of remote leaders who can bring more autonomy, transparency, and leverage to their businesses, ultimately empowering their colleagues to be happier, more independent, and more self-conscious.
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Quotes from the show
The future of your company is really shaped by the people you hire. When your employee fit with or contribute to your culture, they are likely to make better decisions and have better productivity. They are also likely to stay with your company longer. The more you invest in hiring, the more you can save on recruitment with lower retention costs.
Companies need to invest in a transparent work culture to reach passive candidates. With transparency, candidates would feel like they are already working for that company just by looking at their blog or checking their public documents on company culture. So when a job opens up, it will be easier to reach passive candidates - they would be most likely to say yes to an offer because they already understand the company and its values.
Quiet hiring is essentially just about when an organization acquires a new skill without hiring a new employee but helping their existing ones to upskill. Either through learning or restructuring internally.