Candidate Sourcing

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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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Which US City Has the Most Remote Work?

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 Identifying the City with the Most Remote Employees Recently, we discovered a remarkable article from Visual Capitalist. It provides a visual breakdown of remote workers across U.S. cities, shedding light on where most remote jobs are concentrated. From California to New York, various metro areas contain a significant amount of remote workers, in spite of the recent RTO trend. Therefore, we thought it would be helpful to share this data to assist anyone interested in recruiting top talent. Working from …
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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 Talent Pipeline?

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Who you have on board within your organization are easily your greatest assets. They have the potential to take your company to the next level… or not. This is why having an effective recruitment strategy in which you can identify qualified candidates with potential maximizes your chance at having a strong future within your organization. Establishing a talent pipeline as a foundational part of your recruitment process can not only save you time but position yourself to make the best …
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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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Do You Have a Solid Recruiting Strategy?

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Do you have a solid recruiting strategy? Companies that have healthy hiring and retention rates typically have an effective recruiting strategy, a positive company culture, and good employer branding. All these attributes take time to build and perfect but are worth the time and effort. If you don’t have a recruiting strategy right now, it’s important to define one to maximize your recruitment efforts. Every recruiting strategy can look different based on your organization’s size, market, location, budget, and level …
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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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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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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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The Hourly Candidate Sourcing Difference

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While standard contingency firms do produce desirable results, there are instances in which choosing an hourly recruiting research firm like Corporate Navigators makes more sense for your budget and timeline.
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Finding C-Suite Talent

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Partnering with a reputable firm that streamlines the recruitment process with careful research and advanced candidate screening skills can streamline your search process and increase the likelihood of finding the most candidates for the role you want to fill.
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Finding Skill Gaps after Talent Mapping?

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When organizations conduct talent mapping, it’s common to find skill gaps, especially in a stage of growth or change. When this occasion arises, it’s important to find a qualified person to fill the empty role.
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Why Candidate Sourcing by Humans is Key

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When top talent is hard to find, the human touch is invaluable for your company’s future. Set up a consultation today with us to discover how our recruitment research and candidate sourcing services can augment your candidate search.
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Problem Solving with Clients

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by Anthony Kiefer Helping Clients Solve Problems to Make Better Business Decisions Savvy businesses make sure to ask, “How are others doing what we do?” and “Are there things that could be learned from how our competitors are organized?”  And when they ask these questions, they come to us.  As a Research Manager with Corporate Navigators, I can tell you that we have the tools to help. A Recent Request On a recent engagement, a Telecommunications company asked for our …
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