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The Sourcer is the heart of Yena. You describe the role you’re hiring for, it drafts a structured candidate profile for you to approve, and then it returns a ranked shortlist. From there you calibrate: tell it which profiles are right and which are wrong, and the next pass gets sharper.
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Describe the role

From your dashboard, write the brief into Start a new search the way you’d explain it to a colleague: the role, the seniority, the location, the must-haves. Concrete constraints beat long wish-lists. You can also paste a full job ad or drop a link.
Writing a role brief in the Sourcer
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Review and approve the profile

The Sourcer turns your brief into an Ideal Candidate Profile draft: role, seniority, location, domain, must-haves, and nice-to-haves. Every field is editable. This is where your constraints become gates — check that the dealbreakers sit under must-have, not nice-to-have, then approve.
Reviewing the Ideal Candidate Profile draft
A verified search typically takes 5–8 minutes. You can watch candidates appear as they clear screening.
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Read the shortlist

The Sourcer returns candidates ranked against your profile, not keyword matches. Look at the top profiles first and ask: is this the shape of person I’d actually submit?
Ranked candidate shortlist
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Calibrate

Mark the profiles that fit and the ones that don’t, or ask for a refined run in the search chat. This feedback is the point of the loop: the Sourcer adjusts to your judgment of the market, not a generic one.
Calibrating shortlist results
A couple of calibration passes on a real mandate is the honest test of whether Yena works for your desk.
Stuck on a search? Talk to us and bring the actual role. We’d rather debug a real mandate than a hypothetical one.