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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 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
1. Conduct targeted market mapping to identify key talent segments, competitor organizations, and emerging talent pools aligned to priority hiring areas
2. Build and maintain proactive pipelines of high-caliber candidates across specialized consulting and technical capabilities
3. Develop long-term talent communities to support strategic workforce planning and future hiring needs
Proactive Sourcing & Candidate Engagement
4. Lead outbound sourcing strategies to identify and engage passive talent through multiple channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, research tools, and industry communities
5. Design and execute targeted sourcing campaigns to attract niche skillsets and difficult-to-fill profiles
6. Build meaningful relationships with prospective candidates to position the firm as an employer of choice
Business & Talent Acquisition Partnership
7. Partner closely with Talent Acquisition Partners and hiring leaders to align on talent priorities, ideal candidate profiles, and sourcing strategies
8. Provide market intelligence on talent availability, competitor hiring activity, and compensation benchmarks to support hiring decisions
9. Support the development of referral strategies and leverage internal networks to expand talent pipelines
Talent Intelligence & Data-Driven Insights
10. Track pipeline health, outreach effectiveness, and candidate engagement metrics to continuously improve sourcing strategies
11. Leverage talent data and external market insights to inform hiring strategies and talent planning discussions
12. Maintain high-quality talent pools and candidate records within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and sourcing tools
Talent Brand & Candidate Experience
13. Represent the firm professionally through candidate engagement and online presence
14. Deliver thoughtful, personalized outreach that strengthens our reputation within the talent market
15. Contribute to enhancing the firm’s employer brand through consistent and high-quality candidate interactions
How do we define success for your role?
16. You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspect of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration
17. You understand your client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; clients describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high quality work
18. You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clients
19. You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains & attracts talent
20. You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace
21. You grow your expertise through learning and professional development.
Experience & Qualifications
22. 4+ years of experience in talent sourcing, recruitment research, or talent intelligence, ideally within professional services, consulting, or other knowledge-based industries
23. Demonstrated success sourcing and engaging passive candidates in competitive markets
24. Strong expertise with advanced sourcing techniques including Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, and talent intelligence platforms
25. Experience conducting market mapping and translating talent insights into actionable sourcing strategies
26. Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner effectively with recruiters and business leaders
27. Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret recruitment metrics and sourcing performance data
28. Curiosity and adaptability with emerging sourcing technologies, tools, and market trends
29. Bilingualism (English/French) is considered an asset