AI candidate sourcing

AI candidate sourcing for recruiter-reviewed shortlists

Give Gobii a role brief and a sourcing direction. Your AI agent searches approved sources, qualifies profiles against your criteria, and returns organized candidate data for your team to review.

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24/7
Persistent sourcing runs
CSV
Sheets and export-ready data
Review
Recruiters approve fit and outreach

Workflow

From role brief to candidate shortlist

Candidate sourcing breaks when recruiters have to repeat the same search, screening, enrichment, and tracker work for every open role. Gobii turns that top-of-funnel work into an agent workflow your team can refine as the search evolves.

1

Define the target profile

Role, seniority, location, must-have skills, target companies, disqualifiers, and the notes a sourcer would usually keep in their head.

2

Search approved sources

The agent searches the sources your team permits, such as professional profiles, GitHub, portfolios, job boards, company pages, or existing spreadsheets.

3

Qualify with evidence

Each candidate is compared against the role criteria with source links, fit notes, gaps, and useful context for recruiter review.

4

Export the shortlist

Send results to Google Sheets, CSV, webhooks, email digests, or configured ATS workflows so recruiting operations stays clean.

Role brief

Senior backend engineer. Python, infra, data pipelines. Boston or remote East Coast. Prefer candidates from developer tooling or AI infrastructure teams.

Search plan
  • Professional profiles and company pages
  • GitHub and portfolio evidence
  • Adjacent titles and target companies
Candidate notes
  • Evidence-backed fit summary
  • Potential concerns to review
  • Links to source material
Export
  • Google Sheets or CSV
  • ATS handoff where configured
  • Outreach drafts for approval

Why Gobii

Sourcing work that happens before your ATS can help

Applicant tracking systems are great once a candidate is already in your process. Gobii helps with the messy work before that: finding people, researching them, comparing profiles, and preparing clean data for a recruiter to review.

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Find passive candidates

Search beyond inbound applicants and build a pipeline from public, approved, and team-provided sources.

Match real criteria

Evaluate skills, seniority, location, company background, and must-avoid criteria in one repeatable workflow.

Refresh the search

Run daily, weekly, or role-triggered searches so your pipeline keeps moving while recruiters focus on conversations.

Keep humans in control

Gobii prepares sourced candidate data. Recruiters verify, approve outreach, and make hiring decisions.

Deliverables

A shortlist your team can actually use

A useful sourcing agent should not just say "I found candidates." It should return structured evidence your team can scan, sort, and move into the next step.

Source-linked candidate profiles

Names, profile URLs, portfolio links, location, current role, and the sources behind the recommendation.

Fit notes and recruiter prompts

Why the candidate may fit, which requirements are supported, what is missing, and what to verify before outreach.

Export-ready recruiting data

Google Sheets, CSV, email digests, webhooks, and ATS handoff where your organization has configured it.

Gobii AI agent sending a Candidate Found notification with sourced candidate details
Gobii can notify recruiters when a qualified candidate is ready for review.

Use cases

When automated candidate sourcing pays off

The best Gobii sourcing workflows are specific. Give the agent a narrow role, clear constraints, and an output format, then refine the search as candidates come back.

Niche technical roles

Find engineers, data specialists, security talent, or operators whose best evidence lives in projects, profiles, and public work.

Location-constrained searches

Build lists for specific cities, commuting zones, time zones, licenses, markets, or regional hiring constraints.

Competitor talent mapping

Research adjacent companies, prior employers, job titles, and experience patterns that point to likely fit.

Executive and hard-to-fill roles

Collect profile context, work history, public signals, and talking points before a recruiter spends time on outreach.

Agency sourcing lists

Create repeatable shortlist and tracker workflows for multiple clients without rebuilding the same search process every week.

Pipeline refreshes

Re-run searches on a cadence, add newly discovered candidates, and summarize what changed since the last batch.

Questions

AI candidate sourcing, with recruiter judgment intact

Gobii is built for sourcing work that benefits from browsing, comparison, enrichment, and organization. Your team still owns candidate review and hiring decisions.

What is AI candidate sourcing?

AI candidate sourcing uses an agent to turn a role brief into repeatable recruiting research. Instead of manually rebuilding searches, a recruiter gives the agent criteria, sources, and output requirements. The agent searches, compares, summarizes, and organizes candidate profiles for human review.

How does Gobii source candidates?

Gobii agents search the sources your team permits, such as professional profiles, GitHub, portfolios, job boards, company pages, spreadsheets, or approved databases. The agent compares profiles against your criteria and returns source-linked candidate notes instead of unsupported recommendations.

Can Gobii export sourced candidates to our recruiting workflow?

Yes. Gobii can produce structured candidate data for Google Sheets, CSV, email digests, webhooks, and configured ATS handoffs. Common fields include profile links, source URLs, fit notes, location, work history, skill matches, recruiter notes, and outreach drafts.

Does Gobii replace sourcers or recruiters?

No. Gobii handles repetitive research and organization so recruiters can spend more time on judgment-heavy work: validating fit, approving outreach, talking with candidates, advising hiring managers, and making decisions under the organization's hiring policies.

What makes a good sourcing brief for an AI agent?

A good brief includes the role, must-have skills, nice-to-have signals, seniority, location, target companies, excluded backgrounds, source preferences, export format, and review rules. The clearer the criteria, the easier it is to judge whether the shortlist is useful.

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Launch your first candidate sourcing agent

Start with Talent Scout, describe the role, and let Gobii prepare the first recruiter-reviewed shortlist.

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