Strategic Talent Sourcer – Engineering

Garver, LLC; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Garver is seeking a Talent Sourcer in Frisco, Texas to identify, engage, and develop relationships with engineering, technical, and professional talent. This role partners with the Talent Acquisition team to translate business needs into sourcing plans and create credible reasons for passive candidates to engage.

The ideal candidate will conduct ongoing market research on the civil engineering talent market, map talent availability and compensation trends, and support searches across aviation,

Qualifications

• 2+ years talent sourcing, recruiting, talent research, executive search, market intelligence, or a related research-intensive role.

Responsibilities

• Develop focused talent pipelines.
• Identify and engage passive and active candidates for engineering, technical, and professional positions.
• Build reusable pipelines for current openings, anticipated needs, strategic locations, and difficult-to-fill disciplines.
• Balance pipeline volume with candidate quality, relevance, and readiness for recruiter review.
• Research beyond the obvious channels.
• Create talent maps that show relevant employers, locations, titles, career paths, available talent, and potential recruiting constraints.
• Track competitor and labor-market signals that may affect search strategy, candidate availability, or outreach positioning.
• Test new research methods and document repeatable sourcing approaches for the Talent Acquisition team.
• Write concise, personalized outreach grounded in a candidate’s visible experience and the reason a conversation may be relevant.
• Build professional relationships with passive talent and maintain appropriate follow-up over time.
• Represent Garver accurately and credibly, without overpromising a role, title, location, compensation, or career outcome.
• Share qualified, well-documented prospects with recruiters, including the evidence supporting the match and the questions that still need to be validated.
• Maintain accurate pipeline records, notes, contact history, and disposition information in the appropriate systems.
• Monitor activity and outcomes such as prospects identified, outreach, responses, recruiter review, screens, and pipeline movement.
• Use results to recommend changes to target profiles, search locations, outreach angles, and sourcing channels.
• Provide practical market feedback to recruiters and hiring leaders when the available talent does not match the original search assumptions.

Skills

Talent sourcing

Passive outreach

Market research

Boolean search

Sourcing strategy

Relationship building

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Garver is seeking a Talent Sourcer in Frisco, Texas to identify, engage, and develop relationships with engineering, technical, and professional talent. This role partners with the Talent Acquisition team to translate business needs into sourcing plans and create credible reasons for passive candidates to engage.

The ideal candidate will conduct ongoing market research on the civil engineering talent market, map talent availability and compensation trends, and support searches across aviation,