What you’ll learn
- Develop search concepts
- Validate sources
- Expand reach without sacrificing relevance
Who this course is for
Recruiters and hiring managers building a sourcing practice
Before you start
No purchase or account is required. Use fictional information in exercises. Read the explanation, study the worked example, try the exercise before revealing the response, then revisit the idea in the course knowledge check. Practical assignments take longer than reading alone.
Course assignment
Assemble the lesson exercises into a practical plan. Identify assumptions, evidence still needed, an accountable owner, and a review date. Explain one decision you changed and why.
Create and test a sourcing plan
A fictional support-operations role is being searched under one exact title. The results are mostly unrelated technical jobs. Referrals come from one former employer and a directory conflicts with a person’s recent profile.
- Build a concept map and two relevant adjacent talent pools.
- Record two tested query versions and sample relevance findings.
- Create a fact-versus-inference note for the conflicting sources.
- Add a voluntary referral route and a sourcing review metric.
Review a model recommendation
The plan broadens relevant concepts, preserves genuine requirements and treats uncertain profile information as a question rather than a confirmed fact.
Self-review rubric
- Evidence: distinguish confirmed facts, fictional assumptions and unresolved questions.
- Application: connect the proposed actions to the actual person, role and operating conditions.
- Accountability: identify owners, dependencies, stop conditions and review dates.
- Judgment: explain the trade-offs and why an alternative was rejected.
This is learning feedback, not a hiring assessment or credential.
Return and retrieve
After a few days, explain the main decision without reopening the worked response. Then compare your reasoning and revise one weak part of your plan.
Knowledge check
After the lessons, test your decisions on three scenarios. Feedback explains the reasoning; results are practice feedback, not certification.
Take the knowledge checkConnect this course to the complete process
Work through the connected case, practice the conversations and add this course’s work to your final project.
Sources & further reading
Instruction, cases, exercises and worked responses are original academy material. External references support concepts; they do not endorse the academy.