Inbound inquiries

If you are a Sourcegraph teammate and you receive an email and/or resume from a prospective candidate, please forward to recruiting@sourcegraph.com - the Talent Team will take it from there!

• Talent team actions:
  • Confirm whether any of our current open roles might be a fit
  • Connect with the candidate on LinkedIn to introduce yourself, share our careers page, and invite the candidate to either apply to one of our open roles, or reach out directly if they have any questions about an open role in the future.
  • Add the candidate to our Greenhouse talent community (This sends an automated message that says we’ve received their interest and will be in touch should a relevant role come up).

Inbound applicants from our postings

• You can see more information about our recruitment branding efforts and where we advertise our jobs here.

Sourced candidates

• We actively recruit passive candidates via a variety of channels, including LinkedIn Recruiter.
• It is okay to reach out to prospective candidates that work at a Sourcegraph customer; however, do not mention their current employer or team being a customer of ours in the outreach. We should target prospective candidates for their skills and experience. We should not be using our customer vendor relationship as a way to outreach to our customer’s employees.
• After the intake call, the Recruiter or Sourcer will create a LinkedIn Recruiter project and include the Hiring Manager, relevant Director of the department and any teammates included in the interview plan, and will find 10+ relevant candidates.
• The Recruiter or Sourcer will send LinkedIn profiles to the Hiring Manager for review. Once the Hiring Manager adds comments, the Recruiter or Sourcer will use the feedback to source more appropriate candidates.
• Recruiters will continue to add LinkedIn profiles to the project and start an outreach campaign following our Sourcing Outreach Best Practices.
• Additional support: How to be a Sourcer at Sourcegraph

Referrals

• Current teammates can refer a candidate directly in Slack! There are two ways to do this:
  • Use the Slack commands /booster or /referrals-deel to trigger the referral form
  • Join #ask-hiring, where we’ll regularly highlight open roles and include a ‘click to refer’ button.

There is no need for your referral to apply through our careers page once you have referred them via Slack. If the referred candidate is a duplicate, the Recruiter will merge the records together and keep the referral candidate page as the primary candidate page. We do not offer referral bonuses at this time.

Opportunistic hires

• If an opportunistic candidate is introduced to the Talent Team, the Recruiter is responsible for uploading that candidate into Greenhouse within the appropriate department specific evergreen template job.
  • For example, “Eng Prospecting Role - Opportunistic Hire”
• The person who recommended the opportunistic candidate must fill out the How to request a new job form and the exec team must be on board that the role will be conditionally opened for an opportunistic candidate.
• When we do formally approve a specific req for an opportunistic hire, the recruiter should transfer the candidate to that req in Greenhouse,
  • **Important note: **Once the candidate is transferred to the approved req in Greenhouse, the Recruiter should also update the original date that we started conversations with them next to application review. Otherwise, our time to hire data will be skewed too low because otherwise it would start on the day the candidate was transferred to that req.
• All interviews should still be recorded in BrightHire and attached to the department specific evergreen template job _or _the approved role for the candidate.
• Should the candidate not be hired, the approved role assigned to them should be closed in Greenhouse.

Recruiting agencies

How we source passive candidates

• Our goal is to drive meaningful outreach and engagement with prospective candidates. When designing an engagement strategy, the goal is to create a sequence of messages and/or content at touch points delivered to a targeted candidate at predefined intervals.

Here’s a guide on creating a Recruiting Outreach Campaign. Here’s our target companies list for Recruiters & Sourcers.

How a Recruiter and/or Hiring Manager partners with their Sourcer

• A Sourcer is responsible for sourcing passive and active candidates for open roles. A Sourcer partners extensively with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to identify, attract, and message appropriate candidates.

Here’s a guide on how a Sourcer partners with Recruiters and Hiring Managers.