As a TA professional, solo sourcing sessions are like a fun game — trying to find the best fit talent out there, matching Boolean strings, filters, backgrounds, and more. Although it's fun, sometimes it becomes daunting, especially if you don't have a sourcer on the team and you're the all-in-all recruiter and sourcer.

What is a sourcing session?

A sourcing session here means the session you do as a recruiter along with the hiring manager and the team you're hiring for. It's simple, basic, with no extra cost. You meet with them — offline is better, but online works just fine.

What happens next is you all open your sourcing channel, go to the search field, and type the top 2–3 keywords, and use the filters to adjust location, title, and so on. On some sourcing channels, the hiring manager and team could start with their 1st degree connections or people they may have worked with at a previous employer, and either send them a message (it's better that you as a recruiter create that initial message template, so you know it covers what you need), or have each member source 10 qualified profiles and pass them on to you as a recruiter for outreach.

You can also do regular sourcing sessions with your TA team to support whoever is working on a complex role or high-volume hiring.

How does this help?

1. Simple emotional support when you've been wondering how to fill this role.
2. With the current algorithm, some profiles won't appear to you as a recruiter — so this helps big time in unlocking an existing qualified pool of talent.
3. Speed up the most challenging part of the hiring process.

Raghda Amro is a People Partner at BasharSoft with nearly 10 years of experience across diverse industries. She founded Humans of Cairo in 2014, a photography and interview project that celebrates the city's diversity through portraits and real conversations.