Talent Sourcing
The right candidates, found faster and at far lower cost. A direct, cost-effective alternative to traditional recruitment agencies — we identify, approach and qualify candidates for your specific vacancies and hand you a vetted shortlist, without the placement-fee overhead.
The right candidates, found faster and at far lower cost
Our Talent Sourcing service is a direct, cost-effective alternative to traditional recruitment agencies.
We identify, approach and qualify candidates for your specific vacancies — handing you a vetted shortlist without the placement-fee overhead.
Because we charge by project, not commission, we’re never incentivised to push a candidate through. The result is a shortlist you can trust.
Every project includes:
- Active candidate identification across all channels and databases
- First-contact outreach handled by our research team
- Qualified shortlist delivered with full candidate profiles
- Typically 40–60% lower cost than agency placement
- Market insights and feedback included as standard
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The benefits of talent sourcing
Faster to shortlist
Our research team works your vacancy directly — identifying, approaching and qualifying candidates in parallel — so a vetted shortlist reaches you in a fraction of the usual time.
Far lower cost
Because we charge a project fee rather than a percentage of salary, talent sourcing typically comes in 40–60% below agency placement — with no hidden fees and the full candidate detail handed to you.
A shortlist you can trust
We’re never incentivised to push a candidate through, so every profile is included on merit. You get an honest, qualified shortlist — and the market feedback behind it.
Where talent sourcing helps
Talent sourcing is a bespoke, project-based service. Here are a few of the ways businesses use it:
A better-value alternative to agencies
If your agency spend is climbing but the results aren’t, sourcing gives you the same outcome — qualified candidates for a live role — for a project fee, not a percentage of salary.
You keep the full candidate detail, and there are no placement fees inflating the cost of a hire — typically 40–60% less than an agency.
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Live and multi-role hiring
Building a team, opening a new function, or filling several similar roles at once?
We source across all of them in parallel, giving you a steady flow of qualified, interested candidates — without stretching your internal talent team.
Reaching passive candidates
The best people are rarely on the job market. We identify and approach passive candidates directly across every channel and database.
That reaches people a job advert never will — and we qualify them against your brief before they ever reach your shortlist.
Our process
Every project is shaped around your vacancy, but in general this is how we’d work with you on a sourcing project:
Agree the brief and target profile
Identify candidates across all channels
Approach and qualify against your criteria
Deliver a vetted shortlist with profiles
Feedback, market insight and next steps
Why source talent with Audentia?
Our clients trust us to deliver qualified candidates without the cost and bias of the agency model. We take time to understand your vacancy and your business, then bring you an honest, evidence-based shortlist — with the market insight behind it.
No placement fees
A project fee, never commission — typically 40–60% below agency placement, with the full candidate detail yours to keep.
Unbiased shortlists
We’re not paid to push anyone through, so every candidate is included on merit — a shortlist you can genuinely trust.
Global reach
We source for roles across Europe, North & South America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.
Insight included
Market intelligence and candidate feedback come as standard, so you learn from every project — not just the hire.
“We were haemorrhaging budget on agency fees for roles our team simply didn’t have time to source. Audentia stepped in, sourced across every channel and handed us a shortlist of genuinely qualified people — at a fraction of the cost, and with none of the ‘just get them through’ pressure. The market feedback they included was a real bonus.”
Head of Talent Acquisition — High-growth SaaS client
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Talent sourcing case studies
Replacing agency spend on a live sales team
Our client was spending heavily with agencies to build out a sales team. We sourced the same roles directly and delivered qualified shortlists for roughly half the cost.
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Sourcing a multi-role engineering build-out
A scaling business needed several similar engineering hires at once. We sourced across all of them in parallel, keeping a steady flow of qualified candidates to the team.
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Reaching passive finance leaders
The candidates our client wanted weren’t looking. We approached them directly, qualified their interest, and turned a “no-one available” brief into a real shortlist.
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Let's build your shortlist.
A thirty-minute conversation is usually enough to know whether we can help — and what the right shape of sourcing project would be.