Author: Evelyn Egan

Director of Sourcing Operations at Visage, Evelyn has experience in agency, RPO, and in-house roles spanning 12 years in the recruitment industry. Evelyn has built and oversees a 4000-member global freelance sourcing community. Every Christmas in Ireland, she enjoys putting up her THREE Christmas trees. 

How To Create Sourcing Email Templates: A Guide for Recruiters

A woman holds a mug in front of an open laptop and creates sourcing email templates she can personalize later and send to potential candidates.

You’ve spent hours crafting your sourcing email to a target candidate, but they only take a nanosecond to consign your pride & joy to the trash – or, even worse, the spam filter.  A well-crafted sourcing email that stands out in a crowded inbox can be the difference between attracting top-tier candidates and missing out… Read more »

The Top 16 ChatGPT Prompts Every Recruiter Should Be Using

Love it or hate it, ChatGPT is here to stay. Learning to use it proficiently, however, can make a savvy recruiter’s life much easier with efficient responses for better, highly targeted results. This generative AI assistant can enhance the entire recruitment cycle: streamlining the processes, enhancing candidate engagement, and surfacing useful insights for better hiring… Read more »

ChatGPT for Recruiting: Everything You Need To Know (Almost)

Using ChatGPT for recruiting can help streamline your workflow and save time for more strategic tasks.

Table of Contents ChatGPT for Recruiting 101 Where To Use ChatGPT for Recruitment Training ChatGPT: Some Caveats Unless you’ve been locked in a basement without WiFi since November 2022, you’ve probably at least heard of ChatGPT (now on version 4.0). This powerful generative AI tool is transforming how people work across every industry – and… Read more »

Niche Recruiting: 5 Strategies To Find the Right Candidate

Scientist working with microscope representing niche strategies

The realities of sourcing for niche roles are harsh. High demand and low supply lead to an extended time-to-hire and a much higher cost-per-hire than regular roles. So, if you’ve been asked to recruit for a niche role or two, shake off that sense of doom, because we’ve lined up five niche recruiting strategies that… Read more »

19 Talent Sourcing Tools for 2024

Talent sourcing tools enable you to reach active and passive candidates using different strategies to engage top candidates.

The only right answer to the question “Which talent sourcing tool is best for my business?” is “It depends.” Annoying, but true. It takes time and tantrums to sift through the dozens of talent sourcing tools on the market and identify which combination might actually solve your sourcing problem for good. To save you some… Read more »

3 Talent Sourcing Challenges & Solutions

Meet talent sourcing challenges and overcome them with a little help from these suggestions.

By the end of your work day, if you’ve sourced a dozen hard-to-find candidates, your passive talent pipeline is full, shiny, and healthy, and you’ve still got enough energy and time left over to go do that thing you love. Congratulations! We hope the two of you have a great evening. For everyone else, check… Read more »

Top AI Recruiting Trends for 2024 & Beyond

Top AI recruiting trends benefit sourcers, recruiters, and candidates alike.

There’s no doubt that AI-powered tools are changing how talent sourcers and recruiters operate across the entire recruitment cycle. AI’s machine learning capabilities and pattern recognition are advancing how we identify, engage, and hire candidates. So, what are the big AI recruiting trends for 2024 and beyond? As AI innovation accelerates, it could be anyone’s… Read more »

Passive Candidate Engagement Ideas

Our passive candidate engagement ideas can help you attract and engage the largest source of global talent.

It’s easy to spot a happy, healthy hiring professional. Inevitably, they’ll be that possibly-slightly-smug person sitting on a rich, productive talent funnel powered by an endless supply of quality, passive candidates. What’s their secret, you ask? It’s all about engagement. Engaging passive candidates is continents apart from engaging active ones. The same ideas and efforts… Read more »

How To Source Passive Candidates: The 5 Best Strategies

two gentlemen shake hands after hiring top talent through passive sourcing

Did you know that people who aren’t actually seeking new jobs get hired more often than those who are? It’s true: according to Glassdoor, 1 out of every 72 passive candidates is hired, compared to 1 hire out of every 152 active applicants. Because they have already exhibited the skills and qualifications in their current… Read more »