Most sourcers open LinkedIn before they truly understand the job. Kim says that's where everything goes wrong — and she's been fixing it for years.
Kim is a talent sourcing strategist with a deep background in advertising — which, it turns out, is exactly the right training ground for sourcing. She brings a briefing-first methodology to every search, blends OSINT with Boolean thinking, and has trained sourcers from scratch across multiple markets. She co-founded Boolean Results before building her current practice — and she's spent years making the invisible logic behind great searches visible and repeatable.
What you'll hear:
Brief before boolean — why Kim treats every intake like an ad agency briefing, and why most job descriptions are useless to a sourcer without a proper deep-dive conversation with the hiring manager
Sourcing vs. talent identification — a sharp argument for renaming the discipline entirely, and why searching for "sourcing" vacancies in the Netherlands returns product sourcing jobs
Live sourcing with hiring managers — Kim's method of running 5 test profiles in real time with the hiring manager to calibrate the search before scaling it
Data that nobody's using — how response rates, interest rates, and pool size data can explain exactly why a search is hard — and why 90% of TA teams aren't measuring it
AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement — why prompting badly gets you "I hope this message finds you well," and how Kim trained her own AI agent to write outreach that sounds exactly like her
This is what sourcing actually looks like when someone's been doing it seriously for years.
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