How to Reactivate Your Dead Candidate Database (Without Getting Blocked)
Your ATS is probably sitting on a goldmine. Thousands of candidates. Verified contact info. Past interviews. Skill assessments. Work history. All just… sitting there. The average staffing agency has 70% of their database dormant—candidates who haven’t engaged in 90+ days. Some agencies are sitting on databases with a 3-year-old average last contact date. That’s not a database. That’s a cemetery. But here’s the thing: those “dead” candidates aren’t actually dead. They took other jobs. They moved. They forgot you existed. They got tired of recruiter spam. ...