Sourcing Recruiter Training

The training workshop includes presentation, scenario-based practice, laptop-open work, small group discussions, all credibly delivered by one of our Senior Consultants, who each have 12+ years of experience in corporate recruiting.  We kick off the engagement to build your training with focus groups to learn more about your current state, challenges, existing internal best practices, and biggest development needs.  The focus groups include calls with hiring managers, recruiters/sourcers, and recruiting leaders.  This gives us insights we can use to tailor the scenarios so that your recruiters work on immediately-actionable challenges, and walk away feeling more skilled, more confident as they elevate their sourcing and candidate engagement capabilities.

• Sourcing Strategy Kickoff Guide

• Candidate Tradeoff Triangle

• Candidate Presentation Email

• Sourcing Research Spreadsheet

• Boolean Search Strings Spreadsheet

• Candidate Outreach Template Emails

• Cold Call Talking Points

• Overcoming Objections Guide

• Sourcing Resource Website Recommendations

• Sourcer Productivity Tool Recommendations

All of our training is custom-built to align to your recruiting team’s challenges, goals, skill gaps, culture, and process. The actual workshop agenda is developed in partnership with you, the recruiting leader. We leverage real world sourcing scenarios to ensure that recruiters leave with practical, actionable sourcing strategies and tactics. We build these scenarios after conducting focus group calls with your team, so that we’re sure they’re on target.

Our workshops are credibly delivered by former corporate Recruiting and Sourcing Leaders, not generic trainers. We have practitioner experience, and understand how to engage junior to senior recruiting teams, including skeptics who are reluctant to change or maybe even think they have little to learn. We know nobody wants some academic, preachy trainer telling them “you’re doing it wrong” – that’s not us. We get the challenges of recruiting, and it shows up in post-training feedback.  (Our 4 trainers who teach our sourcing training have all been highly rated presenters at SourceCon, and geek out on sourcing.)

We understand the type of corporate recruiting environment your recruiters work in. We ensure that the strategies and tactics we share are realistic given your req loads, priorities, recruiting culture, and budget. We teach recruiters how to prioritize and use the right tool for the job and reduce the hype surrounding many of the shiny-object tools so that recruiters learn the real-world best practices that actually generate hires and create future pipelines of talent.

We’re here to work and practice what we’re learning. Our workshops are not presentations, where learners sit back and passively listen while checking their email or Slack. Instead, we engage the team throughout the workshop by leveraging real-time Q&A, scenario-based exercises, laptop-open practice, speed round best practice sharing, live demonstrations, and interactive discussions. We also bring a real-world humility that comes out in the – often comical – stories we share to reinforce the learning objectives.

Recruiters leave the training excited to source, with new capabilities and confidence to tackle their most difficult searches.

Your recruiting team will receive practical tools and guides designed to help them source and engage talent, educate hiring managers, push back on unrealistic target candidate profiles, and present quality candidates to hiring managers.

After the training has been delivered, we work closely with your recruiting leadership team to recommend changes to ensure the best practices stick.  How do we get recruiters to use these new guides and tools, how do we drive adoption of these new sourcing practices, how do we hold them accountable for these new expectations?  We can help.