Trial and error. This procedure is used by the majority of recruiters when contacting potential employees, currently working for someone else. At least that is the opinion of John Sullivan, recognized consultant in human resources management and currently professor of management at San Francisco State University. In his latest article on ERE.net he explains that recruiters should look for a more suitable time when the experts they want to headhunt are more willing to accept the offer. Work anniversaries are worth considering.
Around the time period of their work anniversaries, with their current employer, employees often reflect on their job choice. They think over whether they chose the right job or the right company, and may be considering a possible career change. This reflection usually comes after the first year, but even after two or three years. Work anniversaries are also often linked to performance evaluations. Employees who do not receive the expected raises or promotions will be more likely to listen to your competitive offer. In addition, You can easily learn about their anniversaries on LinkedIn which automatically publishes work anniversaries and congratulations.
If you want to find out the best time to reach the best talents, working for somebody else, focus on the following indicators. These may also be important signals for employers about when they can expect the competition's increased interest in their best people.
1. Average time spent at one position
Check how long your candidates had been with their previous employers. Contact them before this average period expires.
2. Performance evaluation at the current company
Find out when performance evaluations are held at your candidates' current employers. It may be in the same month every year or, for example, the same as the work anniversary. Anyway, that might be the right time to reach your candidates, when they are frustrated.
3. Typical periods of reflection
Birthdays and New Year are days when most employees reflect on their lives. New decade birthdays are particularly important, but so are many other events in the family, such as children leaving their homes.
4. The right time to leave
There are some key events in the lives of your candidates that cry out for your calling with a new job offer. These events may include the departure of a long-time boss, end of an important project, a budget cut, a scandal associated with the current employer, a key product failure, a merger or layoffs.
5. Annual bonus
If the person you would like to hire has just obtained a one-time annual bonus from the current employer and can't expect other bonus in less than a year, it is an ideal opportunity for you to succeed.
6. Updated profile on LinkedIn
Any significant updates in LinkedIn profiles are clear signals of being more open to new job opportunities.
7. Work anniversary
Again, try LinkedIn and you will have a clear overview of the anniversaries of the talented people you follow. Do not miss it.
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