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Paycor Smart Sourcing uses AI to help recruiters find, contact, and rank qualified candidates. It then sends those candidates directly to Paycor Recruiting.
By automating candidate sourcing, Smart Sourcing reduces manual work, reaches more people, and helps organizations fill jobs faster.
Traditional sourcing often focuses on people who actively apply for jobs. Smart Sourcing finds both active job seekers and passive candidates. Passive candidates may be qualified for a role even if they are not currently applying.
The platform searches more than 1.5 billion candidate profiles from public professional and technical websites, including LinkedIn, Indeed, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and other publicly available professional sources.
What Paycor Smart Sourcing does
Paycor Smart Sourcing helps recruiters:
- Source both active job seekers and passive candidates.
- Reach a wider range of candidates and build a more diverse talent pool.
- Search a large database of candidate profiles.
- Find qualified people who may not apply for jobs on their own.
Smart Sourcing combines AI with recruiter input. This helps recruiters find candidates who closely match the skills, experience, and qualifications needed for a role.
How Paycor Smart Sourcing works
Smart Sourcing works directly with Paycor Recruiting. It uses job details that are already stored in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS). This helps recruiters start finding candidates faster and with less manual work.
When a recruiter initiates a search, Smart Sourcing:
- Reviews the job description and job requirements.
- Creates sample candidate profiles for the recruiter to review.
- Allows recruiters give quick thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback to improve search results.
- Helps recruiters contact and engage candidates in the same workflow.
This process redues the time recruiters spend searching for candidates. It gives them more time to connect with qualified people and move hiring forward.
Important considerations
Before you use Paycor Smart Sourcing, keep these points in mind:
- Smart Sourcing works best for jobs where candidates have a public professional presence, such as online profiles, resumes, portfolios, certifications, or technical work.
- It is a good fit for professional, technical, healthcare, engineering, sales, finance, and other specialized roles.
- It may be less effective for high-volume hourly jobs, such as cashiers, restaurant team members, warehouse workers, or production line workers. People in these roles may have limited public professional information online.
- Success depends on the amount of public candidate information available and whether candidates respond to outreach from recruiters.
- Recruiters should give thoughtful feedback during search setup. This helps improve candidate matches and search results.
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