Sourcing Strategies

Sourcing Strategies (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Sourcing Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to employment vacancies and related topics.

WorldOpp Pipeline

This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Recruitment session of EmployableU Concepts.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Position Requirements.

Script

Recruiters must find the sources where they can find qualified employment candidates.

Internal recruiter resources usually are the first choice. These resources may include databases of pipeline candidates' data, resumes, and social networks of stakeholders.

One group of the stakeholders are the current employees of the employing organization. The employer has already screened them and established employment relationships.

When there is an opportunity for career progression, the current employees may seize that opportunity. When not, they may refer somebody in their networks.

Most of employers routinely use in-network messages to find the sources. These messages are sent to the employees and those stakeholders who are in the organizational network. These messages contain the information about the employment vacancy and, possibly, about a referral fee.

All in all, recruitment is not cheap. Relying on the internal sources tends to save money. A referral from a current employee significantly simplifies screening . Such a referral is a credential itself.

Recruitment is also not fast. Some employing organizations start recruitment in advance. They build candidate pipelines to have qualified candidates ready to work when an employment vacancy emerges.

When internal sources are not sufficient, recruiters may look for those workers who are active on the market, as well as those who are not. Employers may conduct vacancy marketing on their own or hire third-party recruiters.

Building reliable sources through partnerships may be another strategy. An employer may officially or unofficially sponsor a professional meetup group, vocational school, media, and so on in exchange for the leads and accesses to potential employment candidates.

Key terms

Sourcing strategy

Closing

Have you ever tried to source any employment candidate? --Yes/No/Let's move on

Worker Competences is the successor lectio.