2 mental triggers that will help candidates trust recruiters

There is a love story between candidates and recruiters/sourcers.
Google SEO tells us that we are searched as stupid, waste of time, liars, lazy, and many other negatives adjectives.

Why do candidates feel this way about us?

When talking to candidates, they state we contact them with irrelevant job offers or job-offers that lack information.
Other feedback I received is that we don’t know much about the job we are recruiting. We also tend to ask candidates mechanic and annoying questions. Questions like, where do you see yourself in five years? And what are your strengths/weaknesses?
Many candidates we recruit work in a candidate-driven market. They shouldn’t have to answer mundane questions simply because we approached them for a job.
We are all motivated and inspired to take action on similar things. To understand and consequently persuade your potential candidates, you might need to understand mental triggers to motivate candidates and how they work when approaching potential hires.

Why would a candidate who doesn’t know you, give you his/her time?

Two mental triggers help us to recognise people who we can trust and can lead us to the next level in our lives.
These two mental triggers are EMPATHY and AUTHORITY.

EMPATHY

Will you spend your time talking to someone who doesn’t listen to you?
An empathetic recruiter not only puts himself on the other person’s shoes but also anticipates what the person might need or ask.
In recruitment, you need to be prepared to answer all your candidate’s objection before even he/she asks. This is a kind of sense of responsibility and shows you care about your candidate.
Empathy also ensures that you are paying attention to all details that candidates expect from the recruiter.
When we talk about empathy, we indirectly speak about having an interest in them. Understand how they feel, and what might potentially concern them.
If you go through an in-depth process of empathy with them, that will bring us to a state of affinity with them, which makes them more open to discuss and be sincerer.
People trust people who understand, and they also believe recruiters who follow them.
As itself, empathy is a straightforward concept that can be summarised in looking, listening, and understanding the person is in front of you. Understanding their frustrations, their motivations, their problems, fears, needs, and as far as possible and provide them with solutions is all empathy about.