Senior Talent Sourcer
BDO Canada
About the role
About
BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award‑winning environment that fosters a people‑first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.
Your Opportunity
As a Senior Talent Sourcer, you will play a strategic role in strengthening our firm’s ability to proactively identify, engage, and attract top consulting talent across Canada. Working closely with Talent Acquisition Partners and business leaders, you will focus on market mapping, talent intelligence, and building high‑quality pipelines of passive talent to support both immediate hiring needs and future growth.
This is a new opportunity designed for an experienced sourcing professional who thrives in a consultative environment and brings a strategic lens to identifying talent in competitive markets. You will combine research, data, and industry insights to inform sourcing strategies and strengthen the firm’s overall talent acquisition capability.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Talent Mapping & Pipeline Development
- Conduct targeted market mapping to identify key talent segments, competitor organizations, and emerging talent pools aligned to priority hiring areas
- Build and maintain proactive pipelines of high‑caliber candidates across specialized consulting and technical capabilities
- Develop long‑term talent communities to support strategic workforce planning and future hiring needs
Proactive Sourcing & Candidate Engagement
- Lead outbound sourcing strategies to identify and engage passive talent through multiple channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, research tools, and industry communities
- Design and execute targeted sourcing campaigns to attract niche skillsets and difficult‑to‑fill profiles
- Build meaningful relationships with prospective candidates to position the firm as an employer of choice
Business & Talent Acquisition Partnership
- Partner closely with Talent Acquisition Partners and hiring leaders to align on talent priorities, ideal candidate profiles, and sourcing strategies
- Provide market intelligence on talent availability, competitor hiring activity, and compensation benchmarks to support hiring decisions
- Support the development of referral strategies and leverage internal networks to expand talent pipelines
Talent Intelligence & Data‑Driven Insights
- Track pipeline health, outreach effectiveness, and candidate engagement metrics to continuously improve sourcing strategies
- Leverage talent data and external market insights to inform hiring strategies and talent planning discussions
- Maintain high‑quality talent pools and candidate records within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and sourcing tools
Talent Brand & Candidate Experience
- Represent the firm professionally through candidate engagement and online presence
- Deliver thoughtful, personalized outreach that strengthens our reputation within the talent market
- Contribute to enhancing the firm’s employer brand through consistent and high‑quality candidate interactions
How Do We Define Success for Your Role?
- You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspects of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration
- You understand your client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; clients describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high‑quality work
- You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clients
- You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains & attracts talent
- You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace
- You grow your expertise through learning and professional development
Experience & Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in talent sourcing, recruitment research, or talent intelligence, ideally within professional services, consulting, or other knowledge‑based industries
- Demonstrated success sourcing and engaging passive candidates in competitive markets
- Strong expertise with advanced sourcing techniques including Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, and talent intelligence platforms
- Experience conducting market mapping and translating talent insights into actionable sourcing strategies
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner effectively with recruiters and business leaders
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret recruitment metrics and sourcing performance data
- Curiosity and adaptability with emerging sourcing technologies, tools, and market trends
- Bilingualism (English/French) is considered an asset
Compensation
- The expected range of compensation for this role is $74,000 to $112,000 annually. Actual salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and qualifications.
Why BDO?
- People‑first approach – recognized among Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2026
- Professional growth – extensive opportunities for learning and development, enabling you to become a better professional within our services, industries, and markets
- Community impact – support local charity initiatives and staff events that allow you to contribute to your community
- Total rewards – competitive cash compensation, flexible benefits from day one, market‑leading personal time off, and reimbursement for wellness initiatives
- Inclusion & diversity – commitment to a workplace culture of respect, inclusion, and diversity, celebrating differences across race, religion, ability, age, origin, gender, and sexual orientation
- Flexibility – blended work model supporting office, client site, and virtual work, with accommodations as needed
- Ethical standards – clear Code of Conduct guiding ethical decisions and trust with clients and the public
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in talent sourcing, recruitment research, or talent intelligence, ideally within professional services, consulting, or other knowledge-based industries
- Demonstrated success sourcing and engaging passive candidates in competitive markets
- Strong expertise with advanced sourcing techniques including Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, and talent intelligence platforms
- Experience conducting market mapping and translating talent insights into actionable sourcing strategies
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner effectively with recruiters and business leaders
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret recruitment metrics and sourcing performance data
- Curiosity and adaptability with emerging sourcing technologies, tools, and market trends
Responsibilities
- Conduct targeted market mapping to identify key talent segments, competitor organizations, and emerging talent pools aligned to priority hiring areas
- Build and maintain proactive pipelines of high-caliber candidates across specialized consulting and technical capabilities
- Develop long-term talent communities to support strategic workforce planning and future hiring needs
- Lead outbound sourcing strategies to identify and engage passive talent through multiple channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, research tools, and industry communities
- Design and execute targeted sourcing campaigns to attract niche skillsets and difficult-to-fill profiles
- Build meaningful relationships with prospective candidates to position the firm as an employer of choice
- Partner closely with Talent Acquisition Partners and hiring leaders to align on talent priorities, ideal candidate profiles, and sourcing strategies
- Provide market intelligence on talent availability, competitor hiring activity, and compensation benchmarks to support hiring decisions
- Support the development of referral strategies and leverage internal networks to expand talent pipelines
- Track pipeline health, outreach effectiveness, and candidate engagement metrics to continuously improve sourcing strategies
- Leverage talent data and external market insights to inform hiring strategies and talent planning discussions
- Maintain high-quality talent pools and candidate records within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and sourcing tools
- Represent the firm professionally through candidate engagement and online presence
- Deliver thoughtful, personalized outreach that strengthens our reputation within the talent market
- Contribute to enhancing the firm’s employer brand through consistent and high-quality candidate interactions
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