Negar RiazatiChief Executive Officer (CEO) Australia & Asia Region at Performia Australia

There are Fantastic Candidates on the Market Right Now

24 Apr 2020 · 2 min

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In this brief promotional video, Negar Riazati addresses employers and hiring managers, explaining that recent widespread downsizing and reduced hiring have flooded the job market with high‑performing candidates who would normally never apply for their positions. She emphasizes that these productive, often overlooked professionals—who drive operations at all organizational levels—are now available because they have been let go despite being valuable to their former companies. Negar argues that traditional job postings are insufficient to attract such talent; instead, a targeted, strategic approach that highlights factors beyond salary and prestige is required. She urges viewers to act now, offering her team’s consulting services to assess current hiring practices and provide a concrete strategy for identifying and recruiting these “gems” to help organizations move forward.

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Hi everyone. Negar here. I wanted to have a quick chat with you about your hiring strategy and why you need to be looking at that right now. Something that has happened right now is that because of companies downsizing, restructuring, standing staff down, and just not hiring as much as they used to, there's a lot of applicants, candidates on the market right now. And the point that I want you to pay particular attention to, because this is the golden nugget that you need to know about is that some of the people out there on the market right now are people that you would normally never find applying to your jobs. These are amazing, productive, incredible people. These are the people who behind the scenes are pushing operations forward. They make things happen. They're incredible. And they're at every level in the organization. These performers, these productive people, they exist. And right now, because of those reasons I just mentioned, they're being let go. These are people who normally the companies would never ever want to let go. But now because of the situations, maybe cutting their hours as well, they've been forced to go on the market. Now you need to have a really good strategy for finding these people. It's not just enough to write up a job ad and put it on Seek or somewhere and hope for the best. These people, they look for certain things, and it's not the money and the glory. There's a particular strategy you need to implement to be very clear about who you're looking for and certain things that you need to be promoting to attract these people. These people are absolute gems. They're out there. They're out there more than ever before, and how you attract them is absolutely crucial. So you need to find these people. Because they're the people that will help your organisation go forward. And if you're in an opportunity right now where you can start hiring, or you might want to look at a strategy of how you can grow out of this, now's the time to be looking at your hiring strategy. So get in contact with us and let's have a chat. Let's have a look at how you're doing things right now, what you need exactly, and we'll show you the exact strategy for finding these really productive performers.