Direct Sourcing Support

Turn your talent community into a workforce advantage.

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Organizations are building stronger connections with former employees, previous applicants, referrals, known talent and other professionals already familiar with their brand. The opportunity is turning those connections into a reliable source of talent when workforce needs arise.

Equiliem provides Direct Sourcing Support that helps organizations curate and engage talent within their direct-sourcing programs, backed by Employer of Record services to support employment, onboarding, payroll, benefits administration and the ongoing talent experience.

Built Around the Talent You Already Know

Create a more direct path from your talent community to your workforce.

Direct sourcing gives organizations another way to access talent by creating and maintaining relationships with people who already have a connection to the organization or interest in working with it.

Equiliem can provide the recruiting and workforce support needed to help turn that talent community into an active source of workers.

  • Talent Curation

    Help identify, organize and maintain relevant talent populations around your workforce needs.

  • Talent Engagement

    Connect with potential workers when opportunities arise and help move qualified talent into the engagement process.

  • Recruiting Support

    Provide recruiting expertise and capacity to help activate the talent community around current workforce needs.

  • Employer of Record Support

    Employ and support selected talent through onboarding, W-2 employment, payroll, benefits administration and ongoing workforce support.

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More Than Building a Talent Pool

A talent community creates opportunity. Activation creates value.

Direct sourcing is most useful when organizations can effectively connect available talent with actual workforce demand.

Equiliem helps bridge that gap by combining talent curation and recruiting support with the employment infrastructure needed to engage workers once they're selected.

That creates a more connected path from known talent to active workforce participation while allowing the organization to maintain its direct relationship with its talent community.

Not sure which solution fits?

Start with where the talent comes from.

The right solution often depends on whether you want Equiliem to find the talent, help activate talent already connected to your organization or simply support someone you've already identified.

Let’s Talk Through Your Workforce Challenge

Our Approach

Build the program around your talent, your brand and your workforce needs.

  1. Understand

    We start with your workforce goals, existing talent sources, hiring needs and how direct sourcing fits within your broader contingent workforce strategy.

  2. Build

    We align the talent community, recruiting support and engagement model around the populations you want to reach.

  3. Curate

    We help organize and maintain relevant talent populations based on skills, experience and workforce needs.

  4. Engage

    When opportunities arise, we help connect with potential talent and support the recruiting process.

  5. Support

    Once talent is selected, Equiliem can provide Employer of Record services to support employment, onboarding, payroll, benefits administration and the ongoing worker experience.

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Your Brand. Your Talent Community. Equiliem Behind the Engagement.

Keep the connection to your talent while adding the infrastructure to support it.

One of the advantages of direct sourcing is the ability to build stronger relationships between an organization and the people interested in working with it.

Equiliem supports that strategy from behind the scenes, providing recruiting and workforce capabilities while allowing the client's employer brand and talent community to remain at the center of the experience.

The result is a model designed to strengthen the client's access to known talent rather than replace that relationship with a traditional staffing experience.

Already Identified the Talent?

A full direct-sourcing program isn’t required to use Equiliem’s Employer of Record services.

If you already know who you want to engage, Equiliem can support employment, onboarding, payroll, benefits administration and ongoing workforce support through our EOR & Payrolling solution.

Why Equiliem

Workforce solutions built around the need, not a predefined answer.

  • Specialized Where It Matters

    Industry expertise helps us understand more than the job description.

  • A Broader Talent Network

    More than 5 million candidates in our talent network help extend the reach of our specialized recruiting teams.

  • Personal Service at Scale

    The capabilities to support sophisticated workforce needs without making the relationship complicated.

  • Built to Own What Comes Next

    Our culture emphasizes ownership, anticipation, communication and bringing the next step.

  • Three Generations. Still Evolving.

    70+ years of family workforce experience give us perspective while we continue evolving around the needs of today's workforce.

  • 70+Years of family workforce experience30+ years as equiliem
  • 200+clients supported
  • 10K+talent supported annually
  • 5M+candidates in our talent network
  • 5×Best of Staffing award winner
  • Nationwideworkforce capabilitiesSupporting clients across all 50 states

Frequently asked questions about direct sourcing

Direct sourcing is a way of filling contingent roles from talent who already have a connection to the organization, such as former employees, previous applicants, referrals and members of its talent community, rather than relying only on staffing suppliers to find them.

Turn your talent community into an active source of talent.

Tell us how you're sourcing talent today, what you're trying to build and where you need additional support. We'll help identify the recruiting and workforce capabilities needed to make the program work.