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Sourcing vs. Hiring: What’s the difference?

Sourcing is about finding and engaging potential candidates (often before they even apply), focusing on building a talent pool for current and future needs.

Key steps in sourcing:

  • Understanding the job requirements and ideal candidate profile
  • Searching for candidates online and offline
  • Reaching out and engaging with potential candidates
  • Building and maintaining a talent database for future needs

Sourcing is strategic: it helps create a robust talent pipeline, shortens time-to-hire, and gives companies access to candidates who might not apply on their own.

Hiring is the entire process of bringing someone on board, from identifying the need to onboarding the new team member. It includes screening, interviewing, evaluating, and making the final offer.

Key steps in hiring:

  • Planning and defining the hiring need
  • Creating and advertising the job opening
  • Screening and shortlisting applicants
  • Interviewing and assessing candidates
  • Conducting background and reference checks
  • Making a job offer and negotiating terms
  • Onboarding the new hire
  • Hiring is about selecting and securing the best-fit candidate for your open role, ensuring they are a good match for both the job and your company culture.

Hiring is about selecting and securing the best-fit candidate for your open role, ensuring they’re a good match for both the job and your company culture

How SorsX makes sourcing and hiring effortless

SorsX streamlines both sourcing and hiring by combining live recruiter network-powered talent discovery with an AI Interview technology that handles interviewing part instead of a recruiter or hiring manager.

For sourcing: Live crowdsourced recruiter network that sources candidates for you. Using SorsX sourcing, you get candidates delivered, not searched. The best part is that you will post your role only once and other recruiters will source for you.

For hiring: SorsX automates screening, interview scheduling and analysis, so you can work on other tasks while candidates are answering interview questions. Good news is that SorsX AI will generate interview questions and ensure that technical assessments are consistent and accurate, no matter the role.


“We were facing many polished resumes, but unqualified applicants. Because of that, we were wasting hours every week on first-round interviews. When we started using SorsX and its AI Interview tool, within 48 hours we had already pre-screened candidates ranked by their AI interview performance. A game-changer!
— WadiTek


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