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Talent Sourcing Trends in 2025

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The Future of Talent Sourcing: What to Expect in 2025 In 2025, the talent sourcing landscape is undergoing some significant transformations. New technology, shifting workforce dynamics, and evolving expectations influence significant changes in recruiting qualified candidates. Organizations must adapt to these trends to remain competitive in attracting, developing, and retaining top talent. At Corporate Navigators, we stay on top of recruiting trends to assist our clients in navigating the current recruitment landscape. Here’s a look at what to expect in …
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Human-Centric HR Sourcing

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Human-Centric HR Sourcing: Balancing Technology with Empathy in a Digital Era In today’s recruitment landscape, HR sourcing has never been more integrated with tech. While automated tools and databases are extremely helpful in identifying qualified candidates, there is still something about recruitment that is undeniably bound to personal connection; something that can’t be programmed. This is why today’s recruiters and hiring managers find themselves at a crossroads between cutting-edge technology and the timeless value of human connection. As we navigate …
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The Corporate Navigators Guide to Candidate Sourcing

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The Corporate Navigators Guide to Candidate Sourcing Candidate sourcing is the proactive approach to identifying, attracting, and engaging potential candidates for current and future job openings. Unlike traditional recruiting methods where employers post job listings and wait for applications, candidate sourcing involves actively seeking out qualified individuals who may not be actively looking for new opportunities. By extending the search to passive candidate pools, recruiters can discover more qualified choices for their clients. The process of candidate sourcing typically includes: …
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What Targeted Candidate Sourcing Looks Like at Corporate Navigators

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What does candidate sourcing look like? When companies leave themselves open to the wide world of job applications, it can lead to a variety of on and off-target results. With Corporate Navigators, we’ll identify and develop candidates, ensuring that the professionals identified are as on-target as possible. Here are our recommended steps for clients to take to maximize the results of our candidate sourcing efforts. Step 1: Tell Us What You Need In the Corporate Navigators online intake form, we …
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The Undeniable Value of Candidate Retention

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Maximize Your Candidate Pipeline’s Potential As the search for qualified talent only becomes more competitive in the modern job market, building long-term relationships with high-quality candidates should be the cornerstone of your recruitment strategy. When you build a candidate pipeline, simply identifying people fit for future roles isn’t enough. Maintaining a relationship with them is also crucial for your organization’s long-term success and favorable employee retention rates. This concept, known as candidate retention, is becoming increasingly important as companies recognize …
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Building and Managing a Great Candidate Pipeline

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Building and Managing a Candidate Pipeline A candidate pipeline is the process or system that recruiters and hiring managers use to track, manage, and move potential job candidates through the stages of a recruitment process. It’s a way of organizing and visualizing candidates as they progress through various steps from initial application to hiring. A candidate pipeline usually includes several stages, which include: In this article, we will specifically focus on the Sourcing/Attraction stage, which includes acquiring the list of …
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Should You DIY Manage Your Candidate Pipeline?

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How to Manage a Candidate Pipeline: DIY vs. Third-Party Services Building a strong candidate pipeline is the foundation of an efficient and successful hiring process. This list of interested and qualified candidates, with whom you stay in touch over time, will be the first people you call in the event of an open position. Instead of scrambling to find someone through the open job market, you can take your time interviewing candidates with whom you already have good rapport. There …
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What is a Boolean Search?

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What’s Boolean Searching in Recruiting? You can use a lot of useful tools in modern recruiting, and employing Boolean search with ATS software is just one trick of the trade. A Boolean search uses the “Boolean Operators” (And, Or, and Not) to customize a search for information. Boolean operators clarify the relationship between your search terms, making it possible to refine your results. By narrowing your results or linking two terms together, you can sift through a high volume of …
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Why 70% of Currently Employed Workers Are Open to New Roles

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Did You Know: 70% of the Currently Employed Are Open to New Jobs According to a survey by TopResume, over 70% of individuals who are currently employed are considering a new job or are open to new opportunities. Asking the surveyed pool about their relationship status with their job, almost three quarters of respondents would take on a new position if the right opportunity came their way. This makes currently employed workers a hidden source of qualified candidates that could …
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How Employer Branding Influences Talent Acquisition

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How Employer Branding Influences Talent Acquisition To attract the most qualified candidates, organizations can’t just sell a job—but they must also sell a culture, mission, and a vision. This makes employer branding a critical factor in attracting top talent and ensuring long-term employee retention. No longer are adequate salaries and benefits enough, but a definitive employer branding strategy is essential to build a foundation of trust to increase the likelihood of candidates being interested in working with you. But how …
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How to Attract Qualified Candidates: 10 Effective Ways to Do It

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How to Attract Qualified Candidates: Getting the Right Job Seekers In today’s competitive job market, it’s more crucial than ever to attract qualified candidates. Organizations must go beyond traditional recruitment methods to draw top talent. Incorporating recruitment research into the hiring process is just one way employers are identifying and sourcing qualified candidates whom they can call. But this is just one part of the journey to onboard the right candidates. Identifying qualified candidates is just half the battle. After …
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How We Identified C-level Candidates: A Candidate Sourcing Case Study

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In Q3 of 2024, our research Team conducted a confidential search and development of C-level candidates to replace an incumbent executive. This was a multi-step research project that required a lot of discretion and close communication with the client. Objective Our goal was to identify and develop a list of candidates who were capable of and interested in replacing an incumbent CISO’s position at a prominent company in the entertainment industry. Process This research and candidate sourcing project incorporated a …
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5 Reasons to Use Executive Search Research to Source Candidates

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Why Use Executive Search Research to Source Candidates? In the recruitment sector, there are a variety of business models that offer value based on specific talent sourcing needs. In some cases, retained or contingent recruitment firms may be the right choice for your search for a new executive. These firms take care of the entire recruitment process, from candidate sourcing to filling your vacant position. If you want the full cycle handled by pros, this is an option that could …
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Inclusion Linked to Less Burnout in the Workplace

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Is Inclusion the Answer to Combat Employee Burnout? As we head toward 2025, more organizations are focusing on the holistic workplace, which includes more investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and brand image.  This ever stronger pull toward prioritizing these aspects of business are tied to the younger working generations’ preference to choose companies that have a good brand image and robust DEI initiatives. (See more in our 2025 Recruitment Trends Report.) However, there is another strong case for …
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Tapping into Top Overseas Candidates

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How to Identify Overseas Candidates In an ever-interconnected world, recruiting talent overseas offers organizations an invaluable opportunity to access a diverse pool of skills, perspectives, and innovations. Due to the rise of remote work, it’s not uncommon to find employees in Europe working for a company in America, and vice versa. International jobs open a whole new world of backgrounds and experiences to your staffing arsenal, and Corporate Navigators is proud to have plenty of experience identifying overseas job seekers …
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How to Build a Robust Candidate Pipeline

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Is your business future-proofed against talent loss? In this job market, you can greatly extend your time to fill if you wait for people to apply for an open role. These days, it’s important to protect your organization by building long-term relationships with passive candidates through a candidate pipeline.
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Proactive Talent Sourcing Benefits

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Integrating proactive talent sourcing is crucial for corporations because it reaps a variety of benefits. Here are a few of the standout pros that are associated with companies that identify qualified candidates as part of their ongoing sourcing efforts.
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How to Lower Cost Per Hire

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Lowering Your Cost Per Hire Keeping an organization properly staffed with qualified people is important for maximizing any organization’s efficiency. However, the cost of identifying and onboarding new hires can be steep, especially when there is a delayed time-to-fill and a lengthy training process. Thankfully, there are ways you can lower your cost per hire. The total spend on sourcing, identifying, and onboarding a new employee is attributed to various factors that depend on your sourcing methods, time required to …
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The Best Ways to Decrease Time-to-Fill

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How to decrease time to fill an open position at your company
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Sourcing Candidates for Your Role

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Finding the right candidates for a job ensures you’re making the best hiring decisions. This process requires a strategic approach that goes beyond matching skills to job requirements.
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