IT & Engineering Candidate Sourcing Workforce
An always-on sourcing workforce for IT and engineering roles — it finds, verifies, and imports technical talent as clean, deduplicated ATS profiles.
The manual reality
Where the margin leaks today.
Sourcing technical talent is slow and manual. Recruiters comb job boards and professional networks, message candidates to confirm interest, and hand-build ATS profiles — often duplicating people already in the database. The result is days of work for a pipeline that starts decaying the moment it's built.
- ·Manual searching across job boards and professional networks
- ·Candidate interest confirmed one message at a time
- ·ATS profiles built by hand, often duplicating existing records
- ·The pipeline goes stale as fast as it's assembled
Before & after
The same workflow, run by a workforce.
Manual today
Done by hand, every cycle
- 1Search external job boards and networks for technical talent
- 2Message each candidate to gauge interest
- 3Manually create an ATS profile for the promising ones
- 4Clean up duplicates later — or don't
With the EQ workforce
Governed. Logged. Reversible.
- EQ scans external job boards and professional networks
- Engages candidates to confirm interest
- Creates complete, deduplicated ATS profiles
- Keeps the technical pipeline continuously fed
The workforce
3 workers, one duty each.
Sourcing worker
Scans external job boards and professional networks for technical talent
Engagement worker
Reaches out to candidates to confirm interest
Profile worker
Creates complete, deduplicated ATS profiles
The math
What the manual version costs.
Hours saved
40h/wk
Published hours this workforce takes off the team each week.
Manual cost / year
$58,240
Modelled: 40h/wk × $28 loaded admin hour × 52 weeks ($1,120/wk).
With EQ
~$0.40/task
You only pay for governed work that gets done — no headcount, no idle hours.
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Questions, answered.
How does EQ source IT and engineering candidates?
EQ scans external job boards and professional networks, engages candidates to confirm interest, and imports them as complete, deduplicated ATS profiles — turning manual technical sourcing into a continuously refreshed talent pipeline.
Does it create duplicate ATS records?
No. The profile worker deduplicates against your existing database, so imported candidates are clean, complete records rather than duplicates.
How much time does the technical sourcing workforce save?
Teams running this workforce save an estimated 40 hours per week on manual sourcing and profile creation for IT and engineering roles.
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