CV Sourcing Services for Recruitment Agencies
More relevant CVs. Less search time on your consultants' desks.
Send us the role, location, must-haves and search parameters. SourceRade works within the sourcing channels and systems agreed with your agency, builds the search, reviews profiles against the brief and returns an organised set of candidates for your consultants to assess and progress.
What our CV sourcing support can cover
Role interpretation
We turn your brief into a practical search plan based on the skills, experience, location, rate or salary and exclusions you provide.
Search strategy
We structure search criteria around the role rather than relying on a broad keyword dump.
Candidate research
We review available profiles against the agreed brief and organise relevant results for your team.
Structured handoff
Receive sourcing output in the format agreed for your workflow so consultants can review it without rebuilding the search from scratch.
Feedback loop
Tell us what was right, what was off-target and what changed. We use that feedback to tighten the next delivery cycle.
What we need from your agency
A strong sourcing brief reduces wasted search time. At minimum, give us the role title, location, salary or rate, must-have experience, useful secondary criteria, exclusions and your preferred output format. Where your workflow uses specific databases, ATS platforms or sourcing tools, the access model and permitted workflow must be agreed before work begins.
When outsourced CV sourcing makes sense
- Several live briefs land at once
- Consultants are spending too much of the day searching
- A difficult brief needs additional research capacity
- An agency needs overflow support without changing its core team
- Recurring sourcing work is taking attention away from calls and relationships
CV sourcing without giving up control of the desk
SourceRade supports the research and delivery layer. Your consultants decide which candidates to approach, submit and progress. That keeps commercial judgement and candidate relationships with your agency while reducing the repeatable search workload behind the scenes.
Common questions
What is CV sourcing?
CV sourcing is the process of identifying candidate profiles that match a specific recruitment brief, using agreed sourcing channels such as authorised databases, professional networks or internal candidate pools. The objective is to give consultants a relevant set of profiles to review.
Who is the service designed for?
Recruitment agencies that have enough briefs or roles to justify additional sourcing support and want consultants spending more time on conversations rather than database searches.
Can SourceRade work from our existing search criteria?
Yes. If your agency already has defined search terms, Boolean strings, location filters or candidate parameters, we can start from those and refine.
What information should we include in a role brief?
At minimum: role title, location, salary or rate range, essential experience, preferred background, any exclusions, urgency, and preferred output format. The stronger the brief, the more targeted the sourcing.
Can CV sourcing be used for one live role?
Yes. Send us one brief as a starting point and you can add additional roles once the workflow is established.
Can it be used for recurring recruitment delivery?
Yes. If your agency regularly works similar roles, a repeatable sourcing workflow can be built around an agreed brief format and quality standard.
Does SourceRade contact candidates automatically?
Candidate contact and screening must be agreed as part of the scope before it happens. CV sourcing does not automatically include candidate outreach unless the project is explicitly scoped to include it.