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companies hiring right now
25%
of those openings are remote
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San Francisco, Bastrop, El Segundo

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Alex Moreno

Talent Sourcer

alex.moreno@example.com · +1 555 0134 · Berlin · alexmoreno.example

Summary

Talent Sourcer with eight years of experience. Sourced the pipeline behind 30 hires, with a 24% outreach response rate against a 9% baseline. Looking for a talent sourcer role with more ownership of Boolean search and the decisions around it.

Experience

Senior Talent Sourcer, Northwind Systems

2022 - Present

  • Sourced the pipeline behind 30 hires, with a 24% outreach response rate against a 9% baseline.
  • Mapped the market for a hard-to-fill function and produced a shortlist the search firm had missed.
  • Lifted sourced-to-screen conversion from 12% to 27% by rewriting outreach around the role's actual work.

Talent Sourcer, Meridian Labs

2018 - 2022

  • Owned the Outreach copywriting side of the work at a company scaling past 300 employees, and documented it well enough to hand over cleanly.
  • Set the approach the team still uses for Market mapping.

Skills

Boolean search · Outreach copywriting · Market mapping · ATS/CRM · Response-rate testing · Talent research

Education

BA Psychology, 2018

A sample, not a real person. The name, the employers, and the figures are invented to show the shape of a strong page - use the structure and put your own evidence in it.

How to read this talent sourcer resume example

The sample above is not a template to copy word for word - copied resumes read as copied. It is here to show the shape of a page that gets past a first screen: one column, standard headings, and bullets that end in an outcome rather than a duty. Response rate and sourced-to-hire conversion, not profiles viewed.

  • Every bullet opens with a verb and carries a number. That is the pattern, not a coincidence.
  • The summary makes a claim and then supports it in the first bullet underneath.
  • Skills are named tools, not adjectives, and each one appears again in the experience section.
  • The earlier role is short. Recent work carries the weight of the page.

The numbers in a talent sourcer resume

The most common thing missing from a talent sourcer resume is a number. Not because the work had none, but because nobody wrote them down at the time. These are the measures a talent sourcer can usually reach for, and the example uses them.

  • Sourced the pipeline behind 30 hires, with a 24% outreach response rate against a 9% baseline.
  • Mapped the market for a hard-to-fill function and produced a shortlist the search firm had missed.
  • Lifted sourced-to-screen conversion from 12% to 27% by rewriting outreach around the role's actual work.

Before and after: rewriting a weak bullet

Most talent sourcer resumes are one edit away from being much stronger, and the edit is the same every time: replace the description of the job with the result of doing it. The pairs below are the same work, written twice.

  • Weak: "Responsible for boolean search and related tasks." Strong: "Sourced the pipeline behind 30 hires, with a 24% outreach response rate against a 9% baseline."
  • Weak: "Worked on outreach copywriting projects across the team." Strong: "Mapped the market for a hard-to-fill function and produced a shortlist the search firm had missed."
  • Weak: "Helped improve processes and supported talent sourcer initiatives." Strong: "Lifted sourced-to-screen conversion from 12% to 27% by rewriting outreach around the role's actual work."

Adapting the example to your own history

Work backwards from the posting. Find the two or three things it actually screens for, then make sure the top third of your page answers them. Everything below that is supporting evidence.

  • Reorder your bullets so the one closest to the posting comes first in each role.
  • Rewrite the summary for the specific job. It is the only part a human reliably reads.
  • Cut any skill you would not want to be asked about for ten minutes.
  • Keep Boolean search, Outreach copywriting, Market mapping visible in context, not stranded in a list.

FAQ

Can I copy this talent sourcer resume example?
Copy the structure, not the sentences. The layout, the ordering, and the shape of the bullets all transfer. The content does not: a recruiter who reads twenty resumes for the same role notices identical phrasing quickly, and the numbers in this sample are illustrative rather than anyone's real history.
What if I do not have numbers like these?
Most people have more than they think. Look for volume, frequency, time, cost, error rate, or a before-and-after on anything you touched. Where the number genuinely does not exist, say what changed and who noticed - "the process that used to need a weekly meeting now does not" is a real outcome without a metric.
How long should a talent sourcer resume be?
One page up to about eight years of experience, two pages beyond it. This example is one page. Length signals scope, so a long page with small-scope bullets reads worse than a short one.
Will this format pass an applicant tracking system?
Yes. One column, real text, standard headings, and no graphics or tables is the format parsers handle reliably. Most parsing failures come from multi-column layouts, text inside images, and headings the parser does not recognise.
Should the example change for a more senior talent sourcer role?
The structure stays. What changes is the scope in the bullets: more ambiguity you resolved yourself, more decisions with a tradeoff, and more effect on work that was not directly yours. Response rate and sourced-to-hire conversion, not profiles viewed.

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