You’re probably the recruiter who gets handed the search everyone else is struggling with.
You don’t see sourcing as one part of recruiting. You see it as the foundation of great recruiting.
Given a difficult brief, you can go from:
“We need an exceptional person to do X.”
"These are the people we should know, these are the ones I want to approach first, and here’s how I’m going to get them interested."
You’ve operated in a fast-growth startup, scale-up or similarly demanding environment where priorities change quickly and hiring has to keep pace.
You’re comfortable working directly with executives and senior leaders. You can take an imperfect brief, ask the right questions, understand the underlying business problem and turn it into a credible talent strategy.
You’re also highly hands-on.
You source. You interview. You write outreach. You manage pipelines. You chase feedback. You close candidates.
And when something isn’t working, you change the strategy rather than waiting for the market to solve the problem.
You should be comfortable operating at volume. There will be periods where you’re conducting 20+ candidate interviews or screens per week while continuing to source and manage multiple searches.
That requires exceptional organization and systems discipline.
Can you find exceptional people?
Show us hires that happened because you found the candidate.
Can you create top-of-funnel?
We don’t want recruiting success to depend on inbound applications.
Can you recognize bar-raising talent?
A candidate matching the job description isn’t enough. We want people who make the company stronger.
Can you operate at startup speed?
Priorities will move. New roles will appear. Searches will change. Sometimes you’ll need to build a talent map before the job description is finished.
Can you build systems, not just use them?
We want someone who thinks about workflows, automation, data, AI, tooling and how the entire recruiting machine can operate better.