Tag Archives: Talent Sourcing

The Costs of a Poor Candidate Experience

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Alicia
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The Hidden Costs of a Poor Candidate Experience Not too long ago, we published an article that explained why offering a positive candidate journey is so important. From initial contact to completing the job interview process to onboarding, the entire hiring process has a direct impact on both the candidate and the employer. While providing a positive candidate experience delivers benefits such as increased employee retention and loyalty, a negative candidate experience does the opposite. In fact, a negative candidate …
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What is Talent Acquisition?

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Alicia
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What is Talent Acquisition? Talent Acquisition (TA) is a strategic process used by organizations to identify, attract, select, and retain highly qualified employees to meet their long-term business goals. It goes beyond traditional recruitment by building relationships with potential candidates and developing a talent pipeline for future organizational needs. At Corporate Navigators, we cover the full cycle of talent acquisition through two key services: recruiting research, in which we identify qualified candidates, and candidate sourcing, in which we contact candidates …
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Too Many Fake Candidates? You’re Not Alone.

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Alicia
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Spammed with Fake Candidates? It’s Par for the Course in 2025. Across the board, companies are seeing a surge in fake applications after putting job openings up online. These fake candidates are wasting employers’ time by providing falsified work histories, identities, locations, and other information. In 2025, fake job candidates are a real problem that makes it more difficult than ever to identify qualified candidates during the hiring process. What are some growing trends with fake candidates, what are some …
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How to Use an Applicant Tracking System

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Alicia
Developing a strong employer brand: Did you know that 95% of Gen Z checks a company’s brand reputation before deciding to work for them? This makes a solid brand reputation a must in the future of talent acquisition. Create a compelling image of your organization as an attractive workplace to draw in top talent. Implementing strategic sourcing: Use targeted sourcing channels to connect with a wider pool of potential candidates, including job boards, social media, and employee referrals. Hiring Corporate Navigators to source candidates and call into companies for even more information will provide even more candidate options. Leveraging technology: Technology can save you a lot of time with the basic tasks of recruiting that used to take up a lot of time, such as screening resumes, online profiles, and more. Utilize applicant tracking systems (ATS), AI-powered tools, and other recruitment technologies to streamline the hiring process and improve efficiency. Focusing on the candidate journey: An excellent candidate journey is critical to retaining candidates in the application/screening process and after they are hired. To do so, provide a positive experience for candidates throughout the hiring process, including clear communication, timely feedback, and a user-friendly application process. Use data-driven insights: With feedback, you can continue to improve on your practices. Employ analytics to make informed decisions, optimize recruitment processes, and improve the quality of hires. Review periodically to see what is effective and what you need to change in your strategy. Prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI): To Gen Z, the most diverse generation yet, diversity and inclusion are strong motivators to join a company. This means that using DEI initiatives to build diverse teams can lead to more candidate choices. Building talent pipelines: Develop relationships with potential candidates for future positions, even before they become available. Also known as candidate pipelines, this list of candidates is already vetted for their qualifications and interests, saving you time when a job posting opens. Personalizing outreach: In the talent acquisition process, engage prospects with personalized messaging to increase the effectiveness of recruitment efforts. This helps your talent pool feeling connected and valued. Collaborating internally: A great recruitment strategy doesn’t just focus on external hiring. Plenty of talent can be found within your company through upskilling or reskilling employees into different departments. In this way, you can work with various stakeholders, including hiring managers and team members, to identify the people internally who have the right skills and cultural fit for open positions.

A Step-by-Step Guide for Recruiters, Business Owners, and Leaders Hiring top talent is one of the biggest challenges for recruiters and business owners. With hundreds of applications flooding in for each job posting, manually reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, and tracking candidates can be overwhelming. That’s where an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) comes in. An ATS helps streamline recruitment, automate tasks, and improve hiring efficiency so you can focus on finding the best talent for your company. It can also be …
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Talent Sourcing Trends in 2025

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Alicia
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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

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Alicia
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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

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Alicia
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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

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Alicia
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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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Building and Managing a Great Candidate Pipeline

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Alicia
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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?

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Alicia
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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?

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Alicia
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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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What is a Boolean Search?

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Alicia
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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

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Alicia
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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

Posted on November 29, 2024 by Alicia
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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

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Alicia
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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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5 Reasons to Use Executive Search Research to Source Candidates

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Alicia
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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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Tapping into Top Overseas Candidates

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Alicia
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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

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Alicia
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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

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Alicia
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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

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Alicia
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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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