Sourcing Agent — AI-Assisted Candidate Discovery
The Sourcing Agent runs continuous candidate discovery against your active searches — scanning your candidate graph, public professional signals, and the TAL.co talent network to surface a ranked shortlist for recruiter review.
Sourcing at AI throughput, recruiter judgment
Manual sourcing is the throughput bottleneck in most recruiting practices. A recruiter can review 20–30 LinkedIn profiles per hour with genuine attention. The Sourcing Agent processes thousands of candidate signals simultaneously — skills matching, career trajectory analysis, and engagement-readiness indicators — and surfaces a shortlist that a recruiter can evaluate in minutes.
Every candidate surfaced by the Sourcing Agent goes through recruiter review before any outreach is initiated. The system is decision support: it narrows the field, explains its reasoning, and hands off to the human who decides who to engage.
What the Sourcing Agent does
Multi-source candidate discovery
Searches your candidate CRM, the TAL.co talent network, and public professional signals simultaneously. Results are deduplicated and ranked by fit score.
- Candidate CRM and graph first (zero marginal cost)
- TAL.co talent network and partner data
- Public professional profiles and published signals
- Inbound application parsing for active roles
Skills-graph fit scoring
Candidates are ranked against structured job requirements derived from the intake brief — skills depth, career trajectory, and role-type history scored transparently.
Engagement readiness signals
AI-assisted signals for candidate openness to outreach — recent job changes, company news, career pattern inflection points — surface higher-probability contacts first.
Recruiter handoff for review
The shortlist is delivered with per-candidate reasoning summaries. Recruiters approve, skip, or flag candidates before any outreach begins.
Sourcing Agent workflow
Intake brief → multi-source discovery → fit scoring → recruiter review → outreach activation.
How the Sourcing Agent fits your workflow
- 01
Inputs: structured intake brief
The agent reads the structured job requirements from the intake brief — role scope, skills requirements, seniority, and compensation range.
- 02
Process: multi-source scanning
Scans candidate CRM, talent network, and public signals. Applies fit scoring. Deduplicates and ranks results.
- 03
Output: ranked shortlist with reasoning
Delivers a recruiter-facing shortlist: ranked candidates with fit-score summaries and engagement-readiness signals.
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Workflow connection: outreach activation
Recruiter approves candidates for outreach. Approved candidates flow directly into the Outreach Copilot queue.
Sourcing Agent performance
Questions, answered
Does the Sourcing Agent initiate outreach automatically?
No. The agent delivers a ranked shortlist for recruiter review. Outreach only begins after the recruiter approves individual candidates. The system is human-in-the-loop by design.
How does the agent know what signals indicate engagement readiness?
The model uses a combination of observable professional signals — career transitions, company news, tenure patterns — as proxy indicators. These are surfaced as context, not certainty. Recruiters interpret them with their own judgment.
Can I run the Sourcing Agent on searches I'm managing outside the TAL.co platform?
Sourcing Agent is available for on-platform searches. CRM sourcing (graph-only mode) is available for externally managed searches at a reduced tier.
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See the Sourcing Agent in action
AI-assisted candidate discovery, recruiter-reviewed before any outreach begins.