Targeted recruitment for the roles too important to leave unfilled.
Specialist and hard-to-fill roles need more than a job ad. Scout Talent’s targeted sourcing service acts as an extension of your team – proactively headhunting passive candidates, diagnosing the market, and building a pipeline of qualified people for the roles your internal team doesn’t have the time or specialist reach to fill alone.
Trusted by 1,100+ clients
If the role has been open for months and the usual approaches aren't working, the problem isn't effort. It's reach.
Most recruitment processes rely on candidates finding you – through job boards, LinkedIn, or word of mouth. For generalist roles with a wide talent pool, that works. For specialist, technical, or regionally challenging roles, it doesn’t. The people you need are already employed, not scanning job ads, and won’t respond to a posting they never saw.
A targeted sourcing service flips the approach. Instead of waiting for the right candidate to apply, Scout Talent’s recruiters go looking for them – combining market diagnostics, direct headhunting, designing engaging talent landing pages and strategic advertising to reach the full candidate pool for your role, not just the visible surface.
Three things that set a targeted
sourcing service apart.
We diagnose the market for your role
Before we source anyone, we analyse candidate availability, salary expectations, and where your ideal hire is most likely to be found. You get a clear picture of the market before the search begins.
We do the looking for you
Our recruiters headhunt directly, run targeted advertising across leading job boards, and engage passive candidates through specialist networks. Every avenue is actively managed throughout the engagement.
You receive a pipeline ready to assess
We deliver qualified candidates with everything you need to evaluate them. You stay in control of the final decision, and we handle everything that gets you there.
20
Years of dedicated recruitment expertise
1,100+
Satisfied clients
35
Average days to fill a role
How Marine Rescue NSW filled a critical role with no room for the wrong hire.
When Marine Rescue NSW needed to fill a highly specialised role, there was no margin for error. With no probation period, the successful candidate had to be fully capable from day one. Scout Talent ran an in-depth campaign process, using a structured rating system to rigorously assess every candidate against the role requirements and surface the right person with confidence.
Every targeted recruitment engagement comes with 12 months of :Recruit Essentials, free.
When your search is complete, the pipeline doesn’t have to stop there. Every Scout Talent targeted recruitment engagement includes 12 months of :Recruit Essentials, our recruitment software platform, so you can manage your talent pool, post future roles, and keep your recruitment process running between engagements, at no extra cost.
What organisations ask before starting a targeted sourcing engagement.
How is this different from a recruitment campaign?
A recruitment campaign is built around advertising and screening, delivering a shortlist ready to interview. Targeted sourcing services go further upstream – focused on proactive headhunting, market diagnostics, and building a candidate pipeline for roles where the right person is unlikely to apply on their own.
Do we still have control over the hiring decision?
Completely. Scout Talent handles the sourcing, outreach, and pipeline building. Your team assesses the candidates and makes the final call. We handle everything that gets you to that decision.
Can we hire more than one person from a single engagement?
Yes. Every candidate sourced through your engagement stays in your talent pool. If the search surfaces multiple suitable candidates and you want to hire more than one, there are no additional placement fees.
Other ways Scout Talent can
support your hiring.
Recruitment Campaign Service
For any role where you need expert sourcing and a screened shortlist delivered, our recruitment campaign service runs the full process for a flat fee.
Executive Search
For senior and specialist roles where the right candidate isn't applying, our executive search service finds and approaches them directly.
Volume Hiring Solutions
When you have multiple roles to fill at once, our volume hiring service scales your search to meet the demand without scaling the cost.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
For organisations with ongoing hiring needs, RPO gives you a dedicated recruitment function without the overhead of building one in-house.
Better hiring starts with finding the right people
Find out how Scout Talent’s targeted recruitment service can take the search off your plate and build a pipeline of qualified candidates for your most important roles.
