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70%
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500+
resumes screened / min
14-21 days
avg time-to-hire

Smart Sourcing Reach Talent No One Else Sees

Smart Sourcing is AI-driven candidate discovery that reaches past the job board. Your AiRA sourcing agent scans 40+ sources at once and surfaces a ranked shortlist.

Most hiring tools only see people who apply. AiRA sees the rest — the active and passive talent across LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, career pages, portfolios and your own pool. Every match is scored against your search matrix and ranked, so you reach the right people first — the ones your competitors never find.

How Smart Sourcing Works

From your search matrix to a ranked shortlist, the flow is systematic and fully automated:

1

Read the search matrix

AiRA starts from your role's weighted criteria — skills, seniority, domain and signals — so the search targets the right people, not just keywords.

2

Scan 40+ sources

LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, career pages, portfolios and your internal pool are searched at once — active and passive talent alike.

3

Match & de-duplicate

Profiles are matched against the matrix and merged across sources, so one person never shows up as three noisy results.

4

Score every candidate

Each match gets a relevance score and a source tag (active and passive) so fit is obvious at a glance.

5

Rank the shortlist

Your strongest matches rise to the top automatically — recruiters open a ranked list, not a raw search dump.

6

Hand off to outreach

Surfaced candidates flow straight into personalized outreach, so momentum never breaks between finding and contacting.

Smart Sourcing vs Posting a Job

DimensionJob PostingSmart Sourcing
ReachActive applicants onlyActive + passive
Sources1 job board at a time40+ sources at once
RankingManual résumé triageAuto-scored shortlist
Time to shortlistDays of searchingMinutes
Competitor overlapSame applicants as everyoneTalent others never see

Key Capabilities

40+ source sweep

One search spans LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, career pages, portfolios and your internal pool.

Active & passive reach

Surfaces the ~70% of talent who aren't applying but are open to the right role.

Matrix-aware matching

Every profile is scored against your role's weighted criteria, not blunt keyword filters.

Cross-source de-dupe

The same person across LinkedIn and GitHub is merged into one ranked candidate.

Ranked shortlist

Match scores and source tags push your strongest candidates to the top automatically.

Compliant sourcing

Permissions-based access that respects platform terms and candidate privacy.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is smart sourcing in recruitment?
Smart sourcing is AI-driven candidate discovery that reaches beyond job-board applicants. Instead of waiting for people to apply, Sam, TheHireHub.AI's AiRA sourcing agent, scans 40+ sources — LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, company career pages, portfolios and your internal talent pool — matches every profile against your role, and surfaces a ranked shortlist that includes active and passive candidates.
How does smart sourcing find passive candidates?
Roughly 70% of professionals are passive — open to the right move but not applying anywhere. Sam identifies these people from public signal (skills, work history, contributions, career-page footprints), scores their fit against your search matrix, and flags the strongest matches so your outreach reaches them before competitors even know they exist.
Which sources does Smart Sourcing search?
Sam searches across 40+ channels and platforms: LinkedIn (900M+ profiles), GitHub (developer signal), job boards (active talent), company websites and career pages, portfolio sites, and TheHireHub's internal candidate pool — all at once, so no single channel limits your reach.
How is Smart Sourcing different from posting a job?
Posting a job is passive: you publish and wait, reaching only active seekers. Smart Sourcing is active: it finds and ranks matched candidates — including the passive majority — and delivers them to you. The result is a deeper, higher-quality pool and dramatically faster time-to-first-shortlist.
Does Smart Sourcing rank the candidates it finds?
Yes. Every sourced candidate is scored against your role's weighted criteria and surfaced with a match score and a source tag (active or passive). Your strongest matches rise to the top automatically, so recruiters review a ranked shortlist instead of trawling raw search results.

Reach the talent others miss

AiRA scans 40+ sources and hands you a ranked shortlist of active and passive candidates. See what your pipeline has been missing.

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