# Talent Sourcing

Skill · Human Resources and People Operations

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/talent-sourcing

Talent sourcing is the specific practice of proactively searching for and identifying potential job candidates, often passive ones not actively applying, using tools like LinkedIn, Boolean search, and professional networks. It is typically the first stage of the broader recruitment process, performed by sourcers or recruiters before outreach and screening begin. Strong sourcing skills involve creative search techniques and the ability to engage candidates who aren't actively job hunting.

Related skills: [Talent Acquisition](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/talent-acquisition), [LinkedIn Recruiter](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/linkedin-recruiter), [Talent Pipelining](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/talent-pipelining), [Talent Recruitment](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/talent-recruitment)

## Open roles requiring Talent Sourcing (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.