Vice President & Practice Owner, RPO & Direct Souring
Leigh Cuevas
Sr. Director & Business Leader, Direct Sourcing
Kelly Carlton
Sr. Director, Business Development
Come see us speak!
“The New Rules of Sourcing: Finding Talent When No One Is Looking — and Measuring What Really Matters”
Wednesday, February 4 11:15 pm PST
Description:
Today’s talent isn’t raising their hands, they’re waiting to be inspired. In this session, Andrea Barré and Leigh Rodriguez reveal how to connect with passive talent and the key sourcing metrics that predict hiring success. Walk away with fresh tactics, smarter outreach approaches, and a data- informed framework for sourcing success in 2026. Practical, human-centered, and immediately usable for any TA team.
Synopsis:
Talent scarcity, shifting worker expectations, and increasingly passive talent pools have changed sourcing forever. The old playbook of job boards, Boolean, and mass outreach no longer works. Today’s sourcers must operate as market analysts, storytellers, engagement strategists, and data translators all at once.
In this energizing and practical session, Andrea Barré and Leigh Rodriguez will reveal the new rules of modern sourcing: how top teams attract talent when candidates aren’t actively looking, what motivates passive individuals to engage, and how to stand out in an oversaturated digital world. You’ll learn how to build sourcing strategies rooted in human behavior, market signals, and brand perception, not guesswork.
But great sourcing isn’t only about technique; it’s about measuring the right things. Andrea and Leigh will break down the sourcing metrics that actually predict success in 2026, including pipeline health, conversion quality, effort-to-impact ratios, and candidate readiness scoring. You’ll walk away with a fresh sourcing mindset and a practical, modern measurement framework you can apply immediately.
You’ll learn:
Why traditional sourcing channels are failing and what’s replacing them
How to engage passive talent authentically and consistently
The psychology behind messages that get ignored vs. messages that convert
The key metrics that distinguish high-performing sourcing teams
How to build a simple, powerful sourcing dashboard that drives results
Whether you lead a TA function or actively source every day, this session will help you rethink how to identify, attract, and measure great talent in a market where no one is truly “looking.”
