Candidate Sourcing
Impact Hiring: 7 Implementation Ideas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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What is a Talent Pipeline?
What is a Talent Pipeline? 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 also position …
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Attract Qualified Candidates: 10 Ways
How to Attract Qualified Candidates: Getting the Right Job Seekers In today’s competitive, AI-accelerated 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. …
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Building a Solid Recruiting Strategy
Do you have a solid recruiting strategy? In 2026, companies that have healthy hiring and retention rates typically have an effective recruiting strategy, a positive company culture, and a well‑defined employer brand. All these attributes take time to build and refine, but they are worth the effort in a market where candidates and employers alike are using AI to move faster and compare more options. If you don’t have a recruiting strategy right now, it’s important to define one so …
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Sourcing 177 C-level Candidates: Case Study
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
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. In 2026, cross-border hiring and “work from anywhere” models have moved into the mainstream, with more organizations deliberately designing teams that span countries and time zones to access scarce …
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Building a Robust Candidate Pipeline
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 in 2026: A Core Piece of Your Recruitment Strategy
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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The 6 Best Ways to Decrease Time-to-Fill
How to decrease time to fill an open position at your company
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Sourcing Candidates for Your Role: 5 Powerful Ways
Finding the right candidates for a job ensures you’re making the best hiring decisions. This process requires a strategic approach that goes beyond matching skills to job requirements.
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The Hourly Candidate Sourcing Difference
While standard contingency firms do produce desirable results, there are instances in which choosing an hourly recruiting research firm like Corporate Navigators makes more sense for your budget and timeline.
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