Source. as a Service

Scale your business with on-demand sourcing expertise

Removing the heavy lifting from sourcing so you can focus on what matters

Sourcing Challenges…

Time-Consuming

5-20 hours spent sourcing per job, trawling through pages upon pages of results.

Even after all this time, you get the nagging doubt that you’re missing out on quality candidates and leaving money on the table.

This also leaves you with less time to focus on high-value activities.

Frustrating

After hours of searching you find the perfect candidate, only to discover they’ve already been contacted about the role.

You end up exhausting your network, ATS, and LinkedIn Recruiter. Then it’s onto another dreaded check-in call with the client where you don’t have any updates for them.

Scale is limited

You’re unable to increase your capacity because there’s a cap on how many jobs you can be sourcing at one time.

Not only that, you spend more time on particularly specialist or executive-level roles, limiting your capacity even further.

Typical solutions…

Sourcing Platforms

LinkedIn Recruiter licences aren’t getting any cheaper, so you invest in new sourcing tools. Ones that promise access to 'millions of new candidates’.

But training for these tools is limited, and the results subsequently lacking. Leaving you feeling like you’ve thrown more money at the problem but are no further forward.

Outsourced Sourcing providers

You look at outsourced providers that can provide you with teams of sourcers to work on your jobs.

However, without investing time to vet and train your assigned sourcers properly, the results will be a roll of the dice.

At best, you’ll end up with large data sets scraped from LinkedIn, but the accuracy will be limited. You invest more time briefing on each search and training the team.

Hire a full-time Sourcer

While this might be your best option, it’s a big commitment.

Fluctuating demand in your market may mean that you don’t have the capital or workload year-round to justify hiring someone full-time.

Then there’s the additional time and money to find and onboard the right person. Add to this salary, benefits, equipment, and licences, and the costs can start to spiral.

Instead, support and scale your business with flexible, on-demand sourcing expertise

Source. as a Service

Before we talk about what’s included, let’s talk about what you’ll get out of it…

✅ Greater capacity, meaning you can take on more jobs and scale your business

✅ High-quality shortlists to refresh your talent pools and expand your network

✅ Minimal time investment, allowing you to focus on what matters

✅ Tap into ‘hidden’ talent pools where your competitors aren’t looking

✅ A unique sourcing process to present to clients, resulting in winning exclusive deals and retainers

Here’s how you’ll get there…

Sourcing Board - Your own Trello board to manage your sourcing assignments. View active, queued and completed tasks with ease

4x 1-Week Sourcing Sprints - Every month. Dealing with a particularly challenging exec-level hire or niche technical role? Assign multiple weeks to go deeper and uncover even more talent.

Complete long-list of suitable candidates - Including links to social pages, and we’ll also aim to find contact information. All you’ll need to do is review and then add them to your reach-out campaign.

Fixed monthly rate - No hidden costs making it easy to budget for additional support when you need it.

Flexible and scalable - Scale up and down as needed. Pause and cancel anytime

Top-notch quality - One assignment worked on at a time allows for complete focus and quality output. 10 hours+ of sourcing per week on each role.

How it Works

Sourcing Expertise

About us 

Over 13 years of Sourcing and Recruitment experience across niche markets, including the following:

  • Executive & Leadership Hiring

  • Data Science

  • Machine Learning & Data Engineering

  • Automation Engineering

  • Finance Change & Transformation

  • Life Sciences & Biotechnology

  • Human Resources

  • Law

  • Software Development

  • Web Analytics

  • Financial Systems / ERP

Sourcing Process

We follow a structured sourcing process, leveraging various sourcing techniques and tools that allow us to go deeper and undercover ‘hidden’ talent pools.

Fig 1. Sourcing Techniques

Fig 2. Sourcing Channels & Platforms

If you’re tired of staring at unfilled jobs and ready to scale your business, click below to get started…

Services

Source. as a Service

One Sourcing assignment at a time. Pause or cancel anytime.

✓ 4 sourcing assignments per month

✓ 40+ hours total of focused, in-depth sourcing

✓ All sourcing tool licences covered

✓ Your own Trello Board to manage projects easily

✓ Pause or cancel anytime

Bonuses

  • Reach Out Revamp guide - in-depth strategies and techniques to help you improve your response rates (Value: £150)

  • Custom Google Programmable Search Engines (PSEs) - I’ll create 3 different PSEs focused on searching websites where your ideal candidates hang out. Your team will have access to these indefinitely. (Value: £150)

  • Discount on Source. Mastery Programmes - Building out your own sourcing function or wanting to up-skill you team? You’ll get 1/3 off my in-depth training programme, Source. Pro, valid for 12 months. (Value: £1,050+)

Add-on - Reach Out Revamp

Get a higher ROI on your outreach messages with customised outreach campaigns created for each job worked. Requires a Source. as a Service subscription.

£499/m

£2,995/m

There’s room for two customers per month.

We take our job seriously and dive in with every customer and sourcing assignment. Since we only have so many hours per week, we can only work with two clients simultaneously.

Our service is not for everyone. It’s best suited for recruitment leaders working in specialist markets with a bottleneck in sourcing. You often deal with hard-to-fill jobs and lack the time to do a proper deep dive to uncover hidden talent pools.

FAQs

  • Great question. For starters, the annual cost of a full-time senior Sourcer now exceeds £50k ($60k), plus benefits. Not only that, you may not always have enough work to keep them busy at all times, so you’re stuck paying for a resource you aren’t able to resource.

    With the monthly plan, you can pause and resume your subscription as often as you need to ensure you’re only paying your Sourcer when you have work available.

  • You’ll receive your first shortlist by Thursday of the weekly sprint.

  • LinkedIn Recruiter, Google X-Ray (to search multiple websites), Google Programmable Search Engines (PSEs - to go deeper on specific website searches).

    For each platform, we apply a breadth of different sourcing techniques, including conceptual search, implicit search, iterative search, and natural language search.

  • Source. as a Service offers a range of options in how you request new sourcing assignments using Trello. You can do this directly via Trello, sharing Google docs, or even recording a brief Loom video. Essentially, if it can be linked to or shared in Trello, it’s gravy.

    For each new job, we request a job kick-off meeting ahead of the new weekly sprint.

  • No problem. We’ll keep revising the search and candidate list until you’re 100% satisfied. Every Friday we’ll have a short, 15-minute calibration call to discuss feedback and tweak the search where necessary.

  • You might be surprised to hear this, but Source. as a Service is a company of one. This means you’ll work directly with me, founder of Tech Talent Delivery.

  • Once subscribed, you’re able to add up to 4 sourcing assignments per month to your queue. We work on 1-weekly sprints for each role (for more complex positions, we may suggest multiple sprints) and require that a kick-off be held the week before.

  • No problem. You can have all 4 of the 1-weekly sprints assigned to the one role. This will add up to a total of 40+ hours of sourcing in total - giving you a massive advantage over other agencies who will struggle to dedicate the same amount of time to sourcing.

  • Due to the high quality nature of the work, there will be no refunds issued.