SourceCon Keynote Panel Discussion Slides

1. The State of Sourcing in 2015
Jeremy Roberts

2. Who Responded to the State of Sourcing Survey?
54% Corporate Recruiting
46% Third Party (RPO / Agency)
670 Responses
32% are leaders
68% are individual contributors

3. Themes from the 2015 State of Sourcing Survey
• The lines continue to blur between sourcers
and recruiters.
• Engagement, not identification,
continues to be a problem for
talent acquisition professionals
• Are Sourcers and recruiters wasting time?

4. Is your talent acquisition team larger or smaller today
than it was this time last year?

5. Do you employ sourcers?

6. Leaders: Do you plan to increase the number of
sourcers on your team in the next 12 months?

7. What are sourcers making?
RPO

8. What are and sourcers making?
Agency

9. What are recruiters making?

10. Specialty does make a difference:
Technology Admin / Clerical / Customer Service

11. Contract Sourcer Rates:

12. Contract Recruiter Rates:

13. Requisition Loads for Corporate Recruiting
How many open requisitions, on average, do you typically have at any one time? (NOTE: you personally, not your department or team)
SUMMARY

14. Requisition loads for corporate recruiters at
companies with over 5000 employees

15. Requisition loads for recruiters who focus on
administrative / retail

16. Requisition Loads for Recruiters focusing on
technology positions.

17. What’s important to sourcers?
1)LinkedIn
2)Personal Network
3)ATS
4)Job Board
5)Phone

18. How much are sourcers and recruiters using paid
LinkedIn accounts?
Corporate:

19. How much are sourcers and recruiters using paid
LinkedIn accounts?
Third Party:

20. Frequency each site is used for sourcing….

21. Actual success using these sites…

22. How should practitioners determine where to
start on a search? Which tool or website first?

23. What sourcers do in 2015….

24. What “sourcers” do in 2015….

25. What “recruiters” do in 2015….

26. What do talent acquisition leaders want from
sourcers?
1) Placements
2) Qualified Submittals
3) Hiring Manager Interviews
4) Phone screens completed
5) Names in the database

27. What are characteristics of a high performing
“sourcer” and what are the key activities will
they be performing in 3-5 years?

28. What skills do practitioners need
to nurture to excel in the future?

29. What advice do you have for
attendees?