8th December 2022 4 MIN READ •Talos ATS •Hiring Tips
Having trouble with your recruitment sourcing? Can’t find the right talent for your vacancies? You’re not alone! Recruiters across the globe are finding the process of sourcing candidates harder than ever.
In this article, we discuss the factors contributing to these challenges and give our top tips for how to source candidates in 2025.
5 Tips for sourcing candidates in 2025
Sourcing in recruitment is rarely a straightforward process. Depending on the roles you are hiring for, sourcing candidates can be painfully slow for recruiters, especially those hard-to-fill roles. To help you source candidates with confidence, we have put together five tips to help you source the right people in 2025.
1- Know who you’re competing against
Before you get started with any recruitment campaign, it’s important to assess your competition to build a successful recruitment sourcing strategy. Identify which organisations are also hiring for your roles, and compare their recruiting strategy with your own to highlight any pitfalls or advantages when sourcing candidates.
Is there anything your competitors are doing to source applicants that you could incorporate into your recruitment process? Where are they advertising their roles, and how are they promoting their employer brand?
2- Build an appealing employee value proposition
Your employee value proposition (EVP) is your company’s unique selling point within the job market. It’s often the first thing that attracts candidates to your vacancies and helps to retain your current talent, so it’s not something you should overlook when you’re sourcing candidates.
Your EVP is the collection of incentives and benefits offered to employees in return for their hard work. This includes things like tangible benefits, performance incentives, and your day-to-day workplace culture.
How does your EVP compare with similar employers in your sector? Are there any key benefits they’re offering that aren’t present in your own workplace? Use this, along with quantitative employee feedback, to inform optimisations to your own EVP and benefits package.
3- Diversify your online recruitment advertising strategy
Are you advertising your vacancies on the right job boards? If you’re unsure, then it’s likely you’re missing out on opportunities to improve your recruitment sourcing strategy.
Spread your hiring campaigns across a wide range of platforms from popular job boards like Indeed to social media platforms like LinkedIn, as well as your company’s online career site.
Use a multi-poster to distribute standardised job ads across multiple platforms at once. This will reduce the level of admin for your recruitment team while ensuring maximum exposure for your brand and its opportunities.
4- Use ATS automations to identify your most compatible applicants
Sourcing applicants isn’t just about attracting candidates – it’s about identifying the most compatible prospects from your pool of engaged talent. Unfortunately, screening applications is time-consuming, often taking around two weeks to complete, leading to employers occasionally missing out on their most valuable talent.
Luckily, automation within your ATS can make sourcing candidates and screening applicants quicker and easier. Intelligent ‘recruiter scorecards’ are capable of filtering candidates by their unique skills, qualities, and qualifications.
This allows you to identify compatible candidates almost instantly, rather than spending hours sorting through stacks of less suitable applications.
5- Engage compatible candidates quickly
Our last tip on sourcing candidates is to engage with applicants as soon as possible. When it comes to recruitment sourcing, time really is of the essence. If you aren’t quick enough to respond to their application, you risk losing them to another opportunity.
Luckily, these, early-stage comms can be automated – ensuring each and every one of your candidates receives a timely, personalised response to their application.
This reduces the risk of early-stage applicant turnover while increasing candidates’ exposure to your employer brand from the very beginning. What’s more – SMS/email comms can be automated directly through your ATS, meaning every applicant who enters your system is contacted without fail!
Why is sourcing candidates so difficult?
There are a number of reasons why sourcing candidates is becoming increasingly difficult in 2025. Here are just a couple of reasons why recruitment sourcing is becoming a real HR headache.
1- The increasing number of active vacancies
The job market is a hectic and competitive place; the continued rise of remote working, combined with current economic/social factors, has vastly increased the number of vacancies available to candidates.
This has left recruiters competing for a fast-diminishing number of potential applicants, making it harder than ever to source candidates.
2- Candidates’ expectations have changed
Most candidates aren’t just looking for paid employment; they’re looking to work for a business that meets their personal and professional expectations.
For employers, this means offering new incentives and workplace benefits that appeal to talent in your industry. If your company culture doesn’t weigh up against similar employers, you’ll have a hard time sourcing applicants for your vacancies.
3- Recruitment advertising is a competitive space
Gone are the days when newspaper job sections ruled recruitment advertising. Today, employers utilise an endless number of channels – both online and in the ‘real world’ for their recruitment sourcing strategy.
While this certainly makes advertising vacancies easier, it can reduce their impact. Quite simply – if you’re able to reach a large number of candidates, so are your competitors!
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The intuitive advertising suite is built to make recruitment sourcing even easier, while the next-generation ATS ensures they remain engaged from application to onboarding.
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Talos ATS combines the very best of applicant tracking software with intuitive automation, virtual hiring tools, and recruitment advertising management. It even comes with a mobile-friendly, fully-branded online careers page!
Talos ATS includes:
- Next-generation applicant tracking system
- Multi-platform advertising suite for sourcing candidates
- Automated progression of your strongest applicants
- Video screening and interview platform
- SMS/email update automation for candidates
- Remote onboarding tools
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