Sourcing Recruiter Training
virtual or in-person training for teams

Your recruiters already leverage job boards, know how to generate referrals, and love LinkedIn. But, you want to go beyond the basics, and get your team focused more on direct sourcing those candidates who may not ever respond to an ad or InMail, or may not even be on LinkedIn. Our custom-built sourcing training labs are built around the challenges and opportunity areas of your team, with scenarios, demos, and laptop-open practice opportunities tailored to the kind of candidates your team needs to find, engage, and recruit.
This is a very practical, how-to workshop – not death-by-PowerPoint best-practices training. Your recruiters will work on real reqs, generate real sourcing strategies and candidates, and go beyond just finding leads – we’ll spend significant time on the hardest part of sourcing today: engaging passive candidates. Learn how to find people who aren’t on LinkedIn, get their contact info, engage with them via email, InMail, and phone, and leverage the productivity tools of world-class sourcers to squeeze more sourcing success out of each day.
“5/5! I learned so much. Sourcing outside of LinkedIn, how to personalize my outreach, how to organize my time to source more, and chrome extensions that will make me more productive.”
Recruiter, ESPN
Typical Agendas include a focus on:
- How to build your sourcing strategy and target candidate profile
- How to calibrate candidates, push back on unrealistic profiles, and build credibility with Hiring Managers
- How to research and identify target companies and candidate communities
- How to identify the highest ROI sources and approaches for your search
- How to efficiently search the web for thousands of hidden bios, resumes, and profiles
- How to find and engage candidates from underrepresented groups to improve diversity
- How to source beyond LinkedIn
- How to find contact information for passive talent
- How to engage top talent through email, InMail, social media, and phone, including template emails and phone scripts and the keys to overcoming objections
- How to use tools and technology to maximize your limited time
We custom-build the training content to align to your goals, your culture, and development opportunities. We can deliver the training in-person in your offices over ¾ to 1 full day, or virtually, via a tool like Zoom, over multiple days, broken into 2.5-hour modules.
During the training, recruiters and sourcers work on solving their real-world sourcing challenges. How? They bring their laptops and their most challenging reqs/searches to work on real-time during your workshop. After the training, they head back to their desks with easy-to-use tools and guides to help them better find, engage, and recruit the right talent for your organization. This helps the training stick, so that your recruiters use what they learn.
This training is built for corporate recruiting teams only. If you work for an agency or RPO firm and you like our approach, or if you’re looking for individual training, you can check out our resources for solo recruiters, agencies, and small teams here.
“It’s been almost a year and a half, and my recruiters still talk about the training you did for us. It was the best training we’ve had, and very practical. They actually use the techniques and tools they learned.”
Sr. Manager, Recruiting, T-Mobile
Who hires us?
Google. The Gap. Booking. Disney. T-Mobile. Activision. Leading companies around the world choose Recruiting Toolbox as a partner when they’re looking to up-level the sourcing capabilities of their recruiting teams.
Why choose our custom sourcing training workshop for your hiring teams?
“5/5! I learned so much. Sourcing outside of LinkedIn, how to personalize my outreach, how to organize my time to source more, and chrome extensions that will make me more productive.”
Recruiter, ESPN
“Terrific Program. Learned better ways to reach out to passive candidates. Learned far more than I thought I would.”
Sr. Recruiter, TripAdvisor
“Awesome materials and tools that I will definitely utilize going forward.”
Sr. Recruiter, Activision
“It’s been almost a year and a half, and my recruiters still talk about the training you did for us. It was the best training we’ve had, and very practical. They actually use the techniques and tools they learned.”
Sr. Manager, Recruiting, T-Mobile
“5/5! Really well thought out program that targeted the correct areas that I could definitely use improvement on.”
UK Sourcer, BNY Mellon
“Fantastic! Very engaging and interactive. Enjoyed the chance to practice.”
Sr. Recruiter, Union Bank
“Great workshop. You could tell he really researched our reqs and company beforehand. And what we learned was actionable, not theory.”
Sr Recruiter, Expedia
“The program was very practical and interesting; sourcing techniques, tips to get better information from hiring manager; tips to write better emails.”
HR Manager, The Gap
“Often these types of trainings can be too general or too basic. The exercises you built for us were really tailored to our real-life situations, so they really hit the mark. We will use what we learned. Great program.”
Recruiting Manager, Alberta Health Services
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