Candidate Sourcing

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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

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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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US City with Most Remote Work?

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 Identifying the City with the Most Remote Employees Recently, we discovered a remarkable article from Visual Capitalist. It provides a visual breakdown of remote workers across U.S. cities, shedding light on where most remote jobs are concentrated. From California to New York, various metro areas contain a significant amount of remote workers, in spite of the recent RTO trend. Therefore, we thought it would be helpful to share this data to assist anyone interested in recruiting top talent. Working from …
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Manage 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’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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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 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?

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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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Attract Qualified Candidates: 10 Ways

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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 better 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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Building a Solid Recruiting Strategy

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Do you have a solid recruiting strategy? Companies that have healthy hiring and retention rates typically have an effective recruiting strategy, a positive company culture, and good employer branding. All these attributes take time to build and perfect but are worth the time and effort. If you don’t have a recruiting strategy right now, it’s important to define one to maximize your recruitment efforts. Every recruiting strategy can look different based on your organization’s size, market, location, budget, and level …
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Sourcing 177 C-level Candidates: Case Study

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In Q3 of 2024, our research Team conducted a confidential search and development of C-level candidates to replace an incumbent executive. This was a multi-step research project that required a lot of discretion and close communication with the client. Objective Our goal was to identify and develop a list of candidates who were capable of and interested in replacing an incumbent CISO’s position at a prominent company in the entertainment industry. Process This research and candidate sourcing project incorporated a …
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Tapping into Top Overseas Candidates

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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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