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The ultimate guide to proactive sourcing

The strategies you can adopt to pro-actively talent pool crucial skills to beat your competition in the race for talent.

Proactive Sourcing involves taking a proactive approach to talent acquisition by actively searching for and engaging with potential candidates before a job vacancy arises.

It’s about positioning your organisation at the epicentre of a specific community of talent. 

But how do you approach a project like this? This guide breaks down proactive sourcing and will help you to gain a competitive edge by pro-actively engaging and nurturing the talent you need before you have the live vacancies to fill.

 

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Find out when a proactive sourcing strategy might work for your organisation,
and get our best-practice tips for approaching this project.

 

Understand what proactive sourcing is, and when it's the right strategy to use.

Proactive sourcing is a patient job, and it’s not the right approach for every skillset that your organisation needs to hire. It should only be used on roles that are critical to the future of your organisation, that you struggle to hire using reactive sourcing methods.

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Understand what makes up a great proactive sourcing strategy

What do you need to think about in order to get this strategy right? How can you combine research, your EVP, a channel strategy, a content strategy and your CRM to create engaged talent communities?

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Need to activate a proactive sourcing strategy?

Our team can help you build a strategic proactive sourcing capability for your organisation by helping you to:

  • Identify your future critical skillsets
  • Get the insights that help you build an 
    irresistible proposition and understand your competitor landscape
  • Build out channel and content strategies to attract the talent you need and position you as a destination employer
  • Activate your strategy with a team of sourcers, backed by our content and creative teams.

If you want to know more about how we can help, then book a talent advisory session with our expert team to get the ball rolling. It’ll take 30 minutes and it’s completely free. You can invite any relevant colleagues along too.

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