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Source Coverage Audit Checklist

A search-exhaustion and source-diversity checklist for proving what has and has not been searched.

Use this before declaring a hard role exhausted. Record coverage and unique yield instead of counting searches performed.

Coverage

  • Direct-title lane covered?
  • Adjacent-title lanes covered?
  • Donor-company clusters covered?
  • Owned ATS / rediscovery covered?
  • Public technical / research evidence covered?
  • Professional registries or niche communities covered?
  • Licensed provider lane covered?

Yield

  • Discoveries by lane:
  • Net-new candidates by lane:
  • Duplicate rate / pressure:
  • Evidence quality:
  • Geographic gaps:
  • Unresolved verification gaps:

Next decision

  • Unexplored high-value lane:
  • Requirement most constraining supply:
  • Expansion with highest expected upside:
  • Tradeoff to take back to hiring manager:
  • Reason the search is or is not exhausted:

How to use this with SourcingOS

Keep the filled template as a working artifact rather than a one-time intake form. Update it after candidate calibration, preserve the difference between requirements and discovery expansion, and record the evidence that changes the next search.

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