How to Source Candidates for Your Start-up?

Organizations worldwide are in a relentless tussle to get outstanding talent out there. That said, you must roll up your sleeves and leave no stone unturned to stay competitive. Recruiting comes much later in the picture. The primary goal is to source world-class talent from various channels and filter them out.

How to Source Candidates for Your Start-up?

With start-ups proliferating, the need to hire and retain the best talent seems a herculean task. Even before getting started with your recruiting process, you need to source candidates. It becomes imperative for businesses to source top-notch talent to stay competitive in the dynamic job market.

Read through to understand what candidate sourcing is and the steps to source candidates for your start-up.

What is candidate sourcing?

Sourcing candidates refers to the continuous search for potential hires either for filling current openings or in the future. It is an amazing way to reach out to active and passive candidates and serves as a gateway to recruiting. 

Statistics from LinkedIn indicate that nearly 62% of talent teams get high-quality candidates through sourcing rather than inbound applications. Once the candidates are sourced from various channels, next the recruiting begins with conducting screening tests, interviews, and more. 

Steps to source candidates for your start-up

Craft a Clear Job description 

Make sure you are clear on your hiring goals and have chalked out a crisp job description with an ideal candidate persona. Focus on building a candidate talent pool of passive candidates with their contact information, qualifications, experience, notice period, preferred locations, salary expectations, and more.

Use job boards/online sites/ professional networking channels

Most popular media where active and passive job seekers look for job openings include company career sites, online job boards, and professional or social media channels. Post your vacancies on these and display them as job advertisements. While job boards offer the best repository of candidate resumes, social media and professional networking channels expand the outreach to millions of candidates. 

Professional networking channels are used by different categories of jobseekers, including freshers, experienced, freelancers, part-timers, and more.  Ensure you provide your company website or substantial information on the work culture, employee benefits, learning opportunities, and more to offer a superb EVP!

Employee Referral Programs

Your employees are conversant with the company policies, culture, working environment, and more. That said, it makes sense to reach out to them to refer their friends or acquaintances for the open positions. Most companies offer employee referral rewards to encourage them to bring in the best talent. 

Networking with colleges, universities, and industry associations

Establishing contacts and networking with colleges, universities, and educational institutions for placement services offers a remarkable way to source the best talent. A placement coordinator from their end could be in constant touch with you and help identify the best students/candidates for the specific job openings. 

In addition, reaching out to industry associations or hosting and attending various networking events and job fairs could also open the gateway to talented resources.

Recruitment Agencies

Alternatively, you could hire the services of recruitment agencies which can fetch the outstanding candidates for your open jobs in return for a fee. These organizations have a wider outreach and strong candidate base that can help fill your vacancies with the best talent in just a matter of time. 

Conclusion

Only effective sourcing can help achieve the goals of recruitment in the true sense. Follow the steps outlined here to source the ideal candidates for your start-up.

About the Author

BCjobs.ca is Western Canada’s largest job board, with majority of the jobs coming from Vancouver. For nearly 20 years, BC Jobs has connected job candidates with companies looking to add talent to their team. If your team is looking to recruit, BCJobs.ca is the right tool for you. Our job board has grown through virtual career fairs, branding, and partnerships. Contact us at community@bcjobs.ca today.