Technical Sourcer Job Description
Technical sourcer
provides regular status updates to the Talent Acquisition team and hiring managers on recruitment for open positions.
Technical Sourcer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Locate and engage passive candidates through the use of Linkedin Recruiter, Boolean sourcing, and alternative search techniques
Evaluate candidate fit by engaging both technical and behavioral interviewing technique, unconventional techniques to identify exceptional ability
Developing effective strategies and channels for sourcing candidates
Engaging targets, clearly communicating the company’s vision and potential opportunities
Representing the company's brand and recruiting team internally and externally
Enhance the organization’s ability to profile, isolate, attract, assess, and convert highly-talented, elusive, and experienced software engineers and engineering leaders into top candidates for hire
Act as a subject matter expert in prospecting techniques and tools used for information retrieval, data extraction, web-scraping, continuous process improvement, process automation, and customer relationship management
Play an essential role in tracking industry events, technology trends, and changes within the employment landscape which may impact existing best practices and/or short- and long-term need for senior engineering resources
Participate in special projects in areas such as market mapping, market intelligence, talent community relationship building, prospect attraction, and organizational branding
Technical Sourcer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Technical Sourcer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AIRS, PRC, CDR, ACIR, CIR
Education for Technical Sourcer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the technical sourcer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Technical, Business, Education, Human Resources, Communications, Technology, Marketing, Acquisition, Intelligence, Business/Administration
Skills for Technical Sourcer
Desired skills for technical sourcer include:
Major applicant tracking systems
How many resumes need to be generated for open positions
Conferences
Avature CRM and ATS
Design technologies
Multiple recruiting resources and advanced sourcing techniques to identify talent
Product
Various engineering
Boolean
Open source communities
Desired experience for technical sourcer includes:
Develop a broad and deep knowledge of the technologies currently in use by client teams
Partner with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to create sourcing strategies – Build candidate profile, discuss search strategies
Have of the following certificationsAIRS, Social Talent, The Sourcing Institute,People Sourcing Certification Program,LinkedIn Certified
Work in conjunction with our client's Technology Group to enhance their ability to profile, isolate, attract, assess, and convert highly-talented, elusive, and experienced software engineers and engineering leaders into their top candidates for hire
Provide enhanced services to sourcer/recruiting partners including data extraction and web mining
Develop a broad and deep knowledge of the technologies currently in use
Technical Sourcer Examples
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Technical Sourcer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of technical sourcer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for technical sourcer
- Use creative and fresh sourcing techniques to identify candidates for current needs to build a pipeline for future opportunities
- Leverage your technical and business knowledge to thoroughly qualify candidates through resume screening, phone and video interviews, and other assessment techniques
- Utilize your skills, tools and data to continuously improve sourcing effectiveness
- Track your activity to paint a clear picture of sourcing effectiveness for your business partners and team
- Measured by hitting targets of sourcing quality candidates each week
- Deliver market data to team members, increasing understanding of the market at any point in time, or in any location
- Source passive technical talent using a variety of sourcing strategies
- Employ advanced research methodologies to find and qualify all-star engineering candidates
- Use your keen instinct and knowledge of relevant markets to entice top quality engineers and tech leaders to engage in dialogue with us about opportunities
Qualifications for technical sourcer
- Target passive candidates for critical and specialist hard to fill roles using our internal ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, events, referral programs, cold calling, alumni groups, technical user groups, job boards, targeted research, and other social media/networking tools like Xing, Twitter, StackOverflow, GitHub, Quora, Dribble, Behance, MeetUp, Kaggle, HN
- A proven ability to build strong community ties with external tech or industry communities (e.g., open-source communities, user groups, ), highly desired
- 2+ years of client interaction experience, including working with Engineering Managers and Directors, taking new requirements, reviewing profiles and updating pipeline progress
- A deep and wide network to talent within the software and infrastructure engineering world
- Keeps prospect data updated and accurate AND recognizes the value that comes from developing a long-term, internal, talent database
- Experience acting in a consultative manner where your guidance has led to improved outcomes, a positive candidate experience, while earning the respect of your peers and clients
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of technical sourcer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for technical sourcer
- Develop and implement innovative strategies to source top talent (host on campus events, attend tech conferences)
- Identify niche sourcing events (for examples, recruiting events, career fairs, professional conferences
- Leverage internal resources to build strategy around selling our value proposition
- Who knows recruiting is hard, but approaches each day as a new opportunity to find that “unicorn” for the job at hand
- Who can take big projects, break them down into manageable pieces, and deliver results
- Who challenges the status quo and approaches every day as if it was “day one”
- Advise our team of Recruiters and their Stakeholders on developing a world class sourcing strategy for a whole business area within AWS
- Conduct interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios
- Participate in global special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings
- Source passive candidates through referrals, networking, internet searches
Qualifications for technical sourcer
- The ideal sourcer will have some basic hands-on programming experience
- Bachelor's degree is ideal, but not required
- Must have strong computer skills and experience with Google, Outlook, Excel
- Have the ability to create and execute a sourcing strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management
- Are self-sufficient and are able to work with little direct supervision
- You have a passion and demonstrated ability to successfully identify, qualify, and engage diverse candidates at all skill levels
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Our growing company is looking for a technical sourcer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for technical sourcer
- Proactively conduct research and investigate new ideas to execute innovate sourcing strategies
- Partner and collaborate with Recruiting business owners on sourcing strategies and delivery of QIA (Qualified, Interested and Available) candidates to meet the demands of specific technology categories
- Responsible for developing a comprehensive talent community within designated niche or functional specialty
- Source active candidates from on-line databases, contacts lists, internal databases, and employee referrals
- Act as a search expert for functional area(s) by understanding functional hiring needs, position specifications, and search requirements
- Submit assigned activity and project tracking reports in timely manner
- Effectively manage the candidate pipeline to ensure continued identification and movement of candidates through the use of candidate relationship development activities, programs and communication strategies
- Act as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for the technology category while partnering with Recruiting business owners
- Conduct thorough screen with candidates for availability, interest level, salary range, relocation needs, and basic qualifications and ensure timely and accurate documentation in applicant tracking system (ATS) for OFCCP
- Partner effectively with recruiting team peers and cross-functional partners (Compensation, HR, Immigration, Systems and Programs teams)
Qualifications for technical sourcer
- Can demonstrate specific examples of how data and metrics have shaped your messaging to prospects, your overall strategy to develop a pipeline, and the building of trust with your clients
- You have a working knowledge and demonstrated success of an applicant tracking system and sourcing strategies and tools
- You must be able to thrive and prioritize in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment
- Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter and any ATS or recruiting database required
- Available to work from HQ in Redwood City
- 3+ years of sourcing or recruiting experience highly preferred
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Our company is looking for a technical sourcer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for technical sourcer
- Maintain a fearless, fast turnaround, and long-term, driven, prospect pipelines
- You’re obsessive about crafting a superb experience for top talent
- Work closely with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to clearly comprehend technical requirements of the role, the scope, and the team
- Proactively build talent pipelines through referral generation, internet sourcing, events and sourcing campaigns
- Screen resumes and phone interview candidates to determine fundamental fit
- Recommend creative and results-oriented ideas to potentially impact pipeline
- Deliver top talent to the enterprise in a critical, high visibility capability
- Provide a right sized candidate experience
- Influence hiring decisions
- Align all sourcing efforts to diversity sourcing strategy
Qualifications for technical sourcer
- You must have a genuine passion for engineering the best electric vehicles in the world - without passion, you would find what we do too difficult
- Experience acting as a collaborative partner where your guidance has led to improved outcomes, a positive candidate experience, while earning the respect of your peers and clients
- Keep prospect data updated, accurate and recognizes the value that comes from developing a long-term, internal, talent database
- Experience acting in a consultative manner where your mentorship has led to improved outcomes, a positive candidate experience, while earning the respect of your peers and clients
- Can demonstrate specific examples of how data and metrics have crafted your messaging to prospects, your overall strategy to develop a pipeline, and the building of trust with your clients
- Thrives in an agile, rapidly changing environment
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Our company is looking to fill the role of technical sourcer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for technical sourcer
- Technical sourcing of top caliber diverse talent across the organization, especially engineering (JavaScript, Python, Open Source Software )
- Support and administer location based advertising strategy including Linkedin, job boards, social media, meetups and other events
- Extra Credit Points for having sourced in international markets, like Berlin, Paris or London
- Creatively source qualified, top-notch candidates for a diverse range of levels and functional areas (sourcing includes cold-calling internet and database searches, networking, and attending and sponsoring recruiting events)
- Track activity and produce candidate pipeline reports
- Other duties as assigned by the Sourcing Team Lead
- Partnering closely with recruiters and researchers to deeply understand the function and technical requirements of the roles, and how they fit into the organization
- Developing unique and creative approaches to build strong applied and research science talent pipelines and execute on referral generation, events and sourcing campaigns
- Execute multiple candidate sourcing techniques to find top talent
- Effectively influence and engage candidates to consider conversations about career opportunities
Qualifications for technical sourcer
- Develop sourcing models and plans to generate SDE talent pools
- Ready to collaborate and bring ideas to the attention of the whole team
- Ability to articulate with a high level of business acumen
- Must be passionate about something
- Must be willing to work all shifts, overtime, and weekends as needed
- 2 or more years influencing or negotiating with enterprise directors and above