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🚨 Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 16 🚨

Welcome to Week 16 of my ‘Basic Recruiting Stuff’ series—your weekly dose of recruiting fundamentals, common pitfalls, and practical solutions from nearly two decades in the search business.

💥This Week’s Focus: Sourcing That Doesn’t Suck💥

✅ What Should Happen: Sourcing should feel like orchestrating a precision airstrike, not playing Bingo with cold LinkedIn messages. Find exactly who you need—fast—and hit them with a pitch that actually lands, through whatever channel is necessary.

🚩 What Usually Happens: Most recruiting teams are stuck in the Stone Age—mindlessly clicking, filtering, and “connecting” with anyone who has a pulse. Your sourcers hunt for needles in infinite haystacks using nothing but recycled Boolean strings and fire off generic, heartless, emails through the Outlook Wizard with an 84% bounce rate. You pay six figures for lazy copy-paste monkey work. Half those “candidates” aren’t even real people, and the other half wouldn’t touch your job if you set their desk on fire. Face it: your vendor list is a clown car, and your “talent pool” is as toxic as the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. If this is your process, you ARE failing and your recruiters are going to quit and come to work for a modern headhunting firm who built their process with a proper domain strategy.

💡Why It Matters: Screwing up sourcing doesn’t just waste money—it poisons your brand, demoralizes your team, and ensures top candidates run the other way, IF you even reach them (which you won’t be able to validate). By the time your team realizes their pipeline is full of ghosts and charlatans, your competitors have already snapped up the actual talent.

🛠️ The ATS Approach: Asymmetric Talent Solutions runs sourcing like a special operations mission. We target, map, and lock every high-value operator in your market before the other guys even finish their morning coffee. No random blasts. No “pray and spray.” We use proprietary deep search, surgical outreach, and accountability so thorough that our clients literally burn their old vendor lists (“industry rife with wastes of carbon”). We don’t just build talent networks—we build trust clusters. Our results: 100% search closure, absolute candidate quality, and not a single wasted minute.

🎯The Takeaway: If your sourcing process makes you cringe, you’re living in recruiting hell. Brutal fact: you get what you tolerate—and if you’re tolerating sourcing disasters, expect more dumpster fires from your “approved vendor list”.

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