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Elevate Talent Sourcing

Optimize recruitment at the sourcing stage to expand candidate pipelines.

  • External environmental changes, tightening labor markets, and increased candidate expectations have made sourcing talent increasingly challenging. As a result, passive sourcing approaches of the past are no longer enough to fill pipelines and find quality candidates and organizations must actively source candidates.
  • The changing environment also requires altering the definition of a “quality” candidate. Sourcing candidates based on historic qualification requirements is no longer effective, and unrealistic hiring manager expectations are resulting in quality candidates being overlooked.

Executive Summary

Critical Insight

  • Today’s competitive labor market requires strategic and elevated sourcing solutions. Rethinking traditional sourcing activities and channels and redefining what makes a “quality” candidate is key to creating a stronger, varied pool of talent that will meet current and future talent needs.

Impact & Result

  • Re-evaluate and elevate sourcing activities and channels to address challenges and keep up with demands for talent.
  • Expand pipelines by challenging historical perceptions of qualified candidates and highlighting the value of transferable skills and varied educational and experience backgrounds to ensure inclusivity and remove barriers for potential applicants.
  • Be proactive in sourcing candidates and nurture talent pools to ensure there are sources to draw from for future roles.
  • Ensure key players understand that elevating approaches to sourcing and changing perceptions of talent are critical to sourcing effectively for current and future success.

Research & Tools

1. Assess the current state of sourcing

Use key player feedback to complete a sourcing analysis and uncover sourcing pain points, identify challenges that require solutions beyond sourcing, and set goals and metrics.

2. Optimize key sourcing activities

Select and elevate specific sourcing activities to improve based on identified pain points.

3. Identify specific sourcing channels to improve

Identify which channels meet current and future needs and which need to be elevated, maintained, removed or built, while also exploring other sourcing channels to integrate.

4. Implement changes to sourcing activities and channels

Create a roadmap of planned changes to sourcing activities and channels, communicate planned changes and partner with key players, and plan to continually evaluate success.

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