The Sourcer is only as good as the brief you give it. The good news: a strong brief is the same thing as a strong intake call, written down.
Include the hard constraints
- 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.
Leave out the boilerplate
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.
Iterate instead of over-specifying
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.
