Sourcing Specialist.
Add sourcing capacity to your team without adding headcount — your outsourced sourcing specialist finds and qualifies candidates, your recruiters interview and close.
Diego Alvarez · 🇲🇽 MexicoSourcing Specialist · illustrative persona
Sourcing Is the Bottleneck Recruiters Rarely Have Time For
Your recruiters are already stretched across interviews, offers, and hiring-manager check-ins. Sourcing — building the candidate pool in the first place — is the task that gets pushed to whatever’s left of the week.
Open roles sit without enough qualified candidates in the pipeline.
Build sourcing and hiring capacity without asking your existing team to do it between meetings.
Structured Sourcing Support for a Full Pipeline
Your outsourced sourcing specialist builds the candidate pool your recruiters actually interview from — not a list of unqualified names.
- Candidate and market research
- Outbound sourcing
- Initial qualification
- Pipeline notes and recruiter handoff
We shape the final scope with you, then match for the tools, hours, and experience you need.
Support that feels like part of your team.
Build sourcing and hiring capacity without asking your existing team to do it between meetings.
Define outcomes, hours, systems, and the experience that matters.
Review candidates and meet the people you want to interview.
Bring a teammate into your workflow with EO support behind the scenes.
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What does this role really cost?
In-house hiring budget vs. an Easy Outsource planning example. Adjust the assumptions to your business.
In-house Sourcing Specialist
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2026 employer FICA is included. Add any other local costs below.
Diego Alvarez
🇲🇽 Mexico
Sourcing Specialist · Intermediate · 3–5 years
All amounts are USD planning examples at 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year. The in-house budget uses a U.S. employer FICA example with 2026 rates and the Social Security cap; state and local costs, paid time off, management time, and other expenses are excluded unless you add them. Salary and benefits are illustrative budgets, not local wage data. EO rates, personas, and included equipment/software are not confirmed quotes. Source: IRS Publication 15. Compare the same hours and scope; confirm actual pricing in a proposal.
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Ask us about Sourcing Specialist ↗What does a dedicated outsourced sourcing specialist handle?
Candidate list-building, outreach, and basic screening — feeding a qualified pipeline to your own recruiters or hiring managers.
Do they replace our recruiters?
No. An outsourced sourcing specialist adds capacity alongside your existing recruiting team; they don’t run interviews or make offers.
Can you work inside our existing ATS or sourcing tools?
Yes, your specialist works inside whatever systems your team already uses.
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