SourcingOS Learn · Free templateSource 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.
Open JD Strategy Tool
← Back to recruiter templates