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Source Stack Coverage Worksheet

Before you compare LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives, unbundle the workflow. Mark the jobs your team actually uses every week and which ones are already covered somewhere else.

◈Decision rule: do not start with “what replaces LinkedIn Recruiter?” Start with the jobs your team actually depends on, then identify what would become uncovered.
Identity discovery
Find that a person exists and may fit the work.
Professional history
Understand roles, employers, scope, and chronology.
Technical evidence
Find public proof of capability beyond profile claims.
Academic / research evidence
Find papers, patents, citations, theses, and research context.
Contact discovery
Find an appropriate professional route to reach someone.
Messaging & delivery
Actually deliver outreach and manage replies.
Project memory
Preserve searches, decisions, notes, status, and source history.
Market mapping
Understand companies, locations, skills, and talent-pool shape.
Weekly dependencies
0

Jobs your team says it uses every week.

Covered elsewhere
0

Weekly jobs with an existing non-LinkedIn workflow.

Coverage gaps
0

Dependencies that would need a tested replacement before changing seats.

Start by observing actual use. Ask your most active sourcers which jobs they use weekly, then mark them above.

This worksheet does not estimate legal compliance, data quality, reply rate, candidate coverage, or total cost. Those need real workflow tests on your reqs.

What this worksheet is measuring

It measures dependency coverage, not vendor quality. The eight jobs are identity discovery, professional history, technical evidence, academic or research evidence, contact discovery, messaging and delivery, project memory, and market mapping.

What to test before changing seats

For any uncovered weekly dependency, run the replacement workflow on real reqs. Measure time to first qualified lead, qualified unique leads, reply rate by channel, manual hours added, and what project state would be lost or moved.

Read the full unbundling framework: LinkedIn Recruiter Alternatives: Build a Source Stack Instead →