Role and seniority. “Teamassistenz im Vertrieb” and “Head of Sales” are different searches. Say which band you mean, and whether adjacent titles count.
Location. City, region, or radius, plus whether remote or hybrid changes the pool.
Must-haves vs nice-to-haves. The Sourcer treats explicit constraints as gates. Bury the dealbreaker in a wish-list and it stops being a dealbreaker.
Language requirements. Often the single most filtering constraint in DACH searches. Say it explicitly.
Your brief becomes a structured profile — dealbreakers belong under must-have
Company mission paragraphs, benefits lists, and “dynamic team player” phrasing don’t help ranking. If a sentence wouldn’t change who you’d shortlist, it won’t change what the Sourcer returns either.
Start with the real constraints, look at the first shortlist, then refine.
A thin result on a tight brief is information too: it may mean the market for that exact profile is small, which is worth knowing before you promise a client twelve candidates.
