Sourcing
Find the right candidates. Faster.
Pickr searches your own talent pool and external sources at the same time, scores every profile against the real requirements, and hands you a ranked shortlist with the reasoning attached.
Sourcing
What you get
A scored shortlist in minutes, not days
Describe the role once. Pickr searches your own talent pool and external sources at the same time, scores each person against the job's real requirements, and ranks them. You open a shortlist and start calling instead of paging through search results for a week.
People you would never find by hand
A manual search only returns people who typed the same keywords you did. Pickr matches on related skills and verified qualifications, so the engineer who solved a harder version of the problem under a different job title lands on your shortlist instead of staying invisible.
Reasoning you can explain to the client
Every candidate on the shortlist comes with a short explanation of why they rank where they do: which requirements they meet, what is missing, and what to probe in the first call. You forward it to the hiring manager as it is, no rewriting required.
A talent pool that gets smarter with every search
Every profile you source and every placement you close stays in one place and feeds the next search. Runners-up from last quarter resurface when a matching role opens, and accuracy improves over time as Pickr learns what a good hire looks like for your roles.
Before and after
Before and after
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is AI candidate sourcing?
AI candidate sourcing means software searches for people who fit a role instead of a recruiter running Boolean strings by hand. In Pickr you describe the role, and it searches your talent pool and external sources, scores every profile against the requirements, and returns a ranked shortlist with the reasoning for each rank. You decide who to contact.
How is this different from a LinkedIn Recruiter search?
A LinkedIn Recruiter search returns a list of profiles that match your filters, in the order LinkedIn chooses, and the evaluation is still yours to do one profile at a time. Pickr returns a shortlist that is already scored against the job, ranked, and annotated with what each person meets and lacks. It also searches your own talent pool, which LinkedIn never sees.
Can I contact sourced candidates on LinkedIn from Pickr?
Yes. LinkedIn outreach runs through the HeyReach integration, and replies land in the same inbox as your email and WhatsApp conversations. Whether you found a candidate in your own pool or externally, you keep one record per person, with every message and every stage change on it.
Is AI sourcing GDPR compliant?
Sourcing in Pickr runs in Frankfurt, Germany, with names and emails redacted from AI prompts by default. Candidates are informed when AI matching is used, no hiring decision is fully automated, and a data processing agreement (AVV) is included. Your candidate data is never used to train any AI model.
Does AI sourcing replace the recruiter?
No. Pickr finds and ranks the candidates and explains each rank. The recruiter still decides who to call, runs the conversation, and makes the case to the hiring manager. What disappears is the week of searching before the first call, not the judgment after it.
Does AI sourcing work for in-house teams as well as agencies?
Yes. Agencies use it to run several client searches at once without adding headcount; in-house teams use it to fill roles without paying a headhunter. Interviewer and hiring-manager seats are free either way, so the people who need to review the shortlist can do it inside Pickr.
Written by Andreas Amann
Founder of Pickr. Former operator at startups in Berlin and Silicon Valley, where he helped scale companies from 40 to 200+ people. Built Pickr after years of using every major ATS as a recruitment agency owner at ScalingPPL.
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