One sourcing pipeline for blue-collar hiring across job boards, messaging apps, referrals and walk-ins
The challenge
A workforce solutions provider filled driver, technician, warehouse and factory roles for its clients, with candidates arriving from job boards, referrals, social media groups, messaging apps, walk-in drives and its own older database. Each source lived in a different spreadsheet or inbox, the same person often appeared several times under different details, and recruiters spent more time collating candidates than speaking to them.
Our approach
We built a unified sourcing layer that pulls candidates from every channel into one profile, using the mobile number as the stable identifier to merge duplicates. Each profile is normalized into a consistent vocabulary for role, trade, location, licences and availability, then matched automatically against open requisitions. Candidates are contacted on the channel they actually respond to, with their consent recorded.
- Brought every sourcing channel into one searchable candidate record
- Removed most duplicate entries by merging profiles on a stable identifier
- Let recruiters start from a ranked shortlist for each open requisition instead of a blank search
- Showed which sources produced candidates who were actually placed, not just the most applicants
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