There have been countless days where I eagerly go into the office with a cleared calendar and I have every intention of spending the entire day sourcing. However, by the time I answer my emails, have ten different hiring managers stop by, field angry calls from candidates who didn’t get the position, and deal with agencies wanting to steal my job security, I realize my day is at an end and I have no more candidates then what I started with in the morning.

Let’s face it — it’s hard to juggle the demands of internal and external clients as a corporate recruiter and still have enough time to effectively source the right talent that your managers are so insistent on receiving. But there is hope!

For a non-sourcer like me the key is time management. As such, I’ve come up with a check-list of sorts that from start to finish takes me approximately 10 minutes to set things in motion to start sourcing for candidates on any given position.