SOURCING

SRINIVAS VUPPALA
SOURCING

Sourcing is a process of talent acquisition discipline for short listing qualified

and engagement of skilled candidates for job orders through various
methods within the recruitment process, a function through outsourcing are
called sources.

Multi national companies and firms employ teams of sourcing professionals

that concentrate only on the initial pool of candidates.

Sources then hand off the candidates to a different department of team of

recruiters which handle qualification, interview, and placement.
TYPE OF SOURCING

Employee References
Internal Job Posting
Campus recruitment
Advertised recruitment
Walk-in interview
Job fair
Head-hunting
Job portal
Social media
ADVERTISED RECRUITMENT

Recruitment advertising is a public business communication

used to attract applicants.
Recruitment advertising channels:
Newspapers
Specialist and Professional Publications
Internal Organisational Publications
Online Advertising
Job Centers
Newspapers

Companies have the contract with leading newspapers to

publish the job advertisement.
Leading Newspapers:
The Wall Street Journal (USA)
The New York Times (USA)
The Washington Post (USA)
The Guardian (UK)
The Hindu (INDIA)
Times of India (INDIA)
NRI Times (INDIA)
China Daily (China)
The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
The Asahi Shimbun(Japan)
Newspapers

Recruiting companies advertise the job notification at regular intervals

Companies design a uniform layout with various key elements:
Description of the company, including the Employer Brand
Job title and location
Description of the position
Entry qualifications
Remuneration package
Specialist and professional publications

Adverts in trade journals to hire the candidates from specific or

specialist industries or functions
E.g. Engineering, the Civil Service and HR professionals.
Trade journals publish on weekly, monthly and quarterly.
Pros of advertising in a specialist publication
Tapping into a network, to interact members or subscribers of the
publication for events and job vacancies.
Internal organisational publications

Companies recruit internally, either before or at the same time as

advertising externally.
Intranet, corporate magazine, noticeboards, etc.
The cost-effective, and recruiters have a complete knowledge of the
candidate.
The response is likely to be limited to small numbers of applications.
Companies requires a wider range of qualifications or experience
than is in the existing talent pool, they may decide not to recruit
internally.
Job Centers

Job centres are the place to advertise vacancies and also provide advice
and support with recruitment planning activities.
Job centres have a national reach and used extensively by a number of
key industries
Transport, IT, Retail, construction, manufacturing and security.
Job centres are free to use and established as a recognised source of jobs
for those currently out of work.
Job centres are unlikely to provide specialist candidates, and individuals.
References

LCRA
CiteHR
Google
Lets begin to source the right candidate!