Candidate Sourcing

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5 Ways to Discover Genuine Talent

5 ways to discover genuine talent

How to Discover Genuine Talent for Your Team Are you tired of sifting through mountains of resumes, only to find candidates who lack genuine passion and real capability? At Corporate Navigators, we know that discovering authentic talent is more than matching keywords on paper. It’s about finding people whose strengths, drive, and values align perfectly with your company’s mission. Finding that takes a lot more effort than a Google search. Where do you go to find the right people who …
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The Fastest Shrinking Jobs in 2025

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The Fastest Shrinking Jobs in America in 2025 Times are always changing whether we like it or not, making once in-demand jobs fall out of popularity. Just like telephone operators used to be widely essential and are now rare, technology and other advancements continually alter what fields are growing and what are in decline. Based on the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and related analyses, here are the top 10 fastest-shrinking jobs projected between 2023 and …
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How to Find Qualified Manufacturing Candidates

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Effective Strategies to Find Manufacturing Candidates Manufacturing is the backbone of countless industries, and finding the right talent is critical for business success. From employee referrals to leveraging technology, there are several effective strategies to identify and attract top candidates in this essential sector. Industries That Require Manufacturing Positions Manufacturing roles are crucial across a broad range of sectors, affecting nearly every aspect of modern life. Without qualified manufacturing candidates to fill important roles in critical industries, we wouldn’t be …
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Which Recruitment Model Fits Your Business?

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Why Finding the Right Recruitment Model Matters Choosing the best recruitment approach for your business can profoundly influence your company’s ability to attract, assess, and retain top talent. Also, selecting a model tailored to your organization’s needs means you reduce hiring risks, improve candidate fit, and empower future growth. On the flip side, the wrong choice can lead to misaligned hires, higher turnover, wasted resources, and missed business goals. That’s why at Corporate Navigators, we firmly believe that it’s crucial …
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Identify Diverse Candidates: 5 Steps

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5 Steps to Identifying Diverse Candidates Building a diverse workforce is more than a trend—it’s a proven strategy for driving innovation, performance, and long-term business success. Here’s how you can systematically identify and attract diverse, highly qualified candidates. The Benefits of Having Diverse Candidates A diverse team brings fresh perspectives, broader skill sets, and greater creativity to your organization. Research shows that companies with high levels of racial and ethnic diversity are 36% more likely to outperform their peers in profitability and innovation. Diversity …
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Sourcing Engineers: 4 Steps

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Identifying Engineers Engineers are the architects of progress in every sector, and attracting the right talent is more critical than ever. This guide distills our decades of experience into actionable insights and proven strategies tailored for engineering recruitment. Whether you are building a new team or seeking that one game-changing hire, we hope these pages serve as a trusted resource on your journey. When you place your confidence in Corporate Navigators, we can navigate the ever-evolving landscape of talent acquisition …
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3 Important Generational Hiring Trends

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Gen Z: A Growing Generation of Young Professionals By 2026, Gen Z is expected to make up approximately 27-30% of the global workforce, Millennials 35%, Gen X 22%, and Boomers less than 10%. This number will decline daily as Boomers retire at 10k a day in the U.S. Understanding which generation the majority of workers belong to can help employers make the best recruitment and branding decisions to attract top talent. In this article, we will explore the differences between …
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Build a Diverse Candidate Pipeline: 7 Ways

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Building a Diverse Candidate Pipeline: Sourcing Strategies for Inclusion Since there are many benefits to hiring people of various demographics and walks of life, building a diverse talent pipeline paves the way to building an equitable team. However, creating an inclusive talent pipeline requires intentional strategies at every stage of candidate sourcing. Here are proven methods to ensure your sourcing efforts foster true inclusion. 1. Expand Sourcing Channels and Networks 2. Use Inclusive Language and Job Descriptions 3. Implement Blind …
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Spot Fake Candidate IP: 9 Ways

IP spoofing: a fake candidate trait

How to Spot IP Spoofing in Fake Candidates Fake candidates have been a recurring problem in recruiting talent in the digital age, especially with the rise of remote and hybrid work opportunities. While we have covered the topic of fake candidates in detail in previous articles, we have not taken a deep dive into one of the ways you can detect a fake candidate: by identifying IP spoofing. Spoofed IP Addresses: A Telltale Sign of Fake Job Candidates Detecting spoofed …
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Skills-Based Hiring: Dynamic Frontier

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How Skills-Based Hiring Is Reshaping the Labor Market in 2025 In 2025, more employers than ever are interested in a candidate’s proven skills instead of degrees. Skills-based hiring has become a defining trend in recruitment, fundamentally changing how employers identify, evaluate, and select talent. While college degrees still hold weight, employers and recruiters understand that there’s more to a candidate than what’s on a resume.  Tried and true experiences make a more well-rounded candidate, especially in a quickly changing workplace …
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Impact Hiring: 7 Implementation Ideas

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What Is Impact Hiring? Impact hiring is a hiring method that focuses on recruiting, supporting, and retaining entry-level talent, especially from groups facing systemic barriers, to create business advantage and social value. When you implement this method into your hiring process, you can maximize your chance of hiring and retaining qualified candidates. Going beyond just filling open positions Impact hiring looks beyond traditional hiring criteria like education and skills when assessing a candidate. Instead, it focuses on aligning the candidate’s …
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RPO Services Compared: 3 Types

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Comparing Full, Blended, and Project-Based RPO Models Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) offers premium recruitment services to organizations that lack in-house recruitment teams or need to enhance existing ones. Due to differences in hiring needs, RPO has evolved into several models to suit varying business needs: Full, Blended, and Project-Based. Understanding the differences between full, blended, and project-based RPO can help organizations choose the best approach for their talent acquisition challenges. P.S. Need hourly or project-based core RPO services like candidate …
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Find Better Candidates: Research Firm

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How to Find Better Candidates with a Recruiting Research Firm Finding better candidates has become a pain point for many companies and recruiters, so much that it’s listed as one of the biggest challenges faced in recruitment in 2025. Yet, no matter how difficult it is, recruiting the right talent is one of the most critical aspects of building a successful organization. This means that finding high-quality candidates who align with your company’s goals and culture is a non-negotiable, even …
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Talent Acquisition: 9 Great Strategies

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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. While you’ll often see “recruitment” and “talent acquisition” used interchangeably, there’s a key difference between them. Recruitment typically focuses on the immediate, transactional task of filling open roles—think of it as …
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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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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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Targeted Candidate Sourcing

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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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The US Cities with Most Remote Work in 2026

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Identifying the U.S. Cities with the Most Remote Employees Recently, we came across a striking visualization from Visual Capitalist that maps where remote workers are concentrated across major U.S. cities. From California to New York, several metro areas still have a significant share of remote workers, even as many employers increase return‑to‑office (RTO) and hybrid expectations. For employers, this kind of regional insight is more than trivia. It helps you understand what workers expect in specific markets and informs key …
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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 is a way of organizing and visualizing candidates as they progress from first contact through to hiring, so you are never starting from zero when a role opens. A candidate pipeline usually includes several stages, such as: In this article, we will specifically focus on the sourcing/attraction …
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DIY Candidate Pipeline Management

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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 when an open position appears. Instead of scrambling to find someone through the open job market, you can take your time interviewing candidates with whom you already have rapport. There are two primary approaches to talent pipeline …
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