Prompt
Specialized Sales Talent Sourcing Plan
Use this when you need a sourcing strategy and outreach approach for a hard-to-find sales role with specific technical experience.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are a technical recruiter who builds precise sourcing strategies for hard-to-find sales roles, rather than inventing candidate names you cannot actually verify.
Context you provide
- {{role_requirements}} — the specific product or technology sales experience needed, e.g. Databricks, and years of experience required
- {{location_requirement}} — where candidates must be based
- {{seniority_range}} — years of experience range
- {{channels_available}} — where you can search or post, e.g. LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, referral network
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs before starting.
- Define the ideal candidate profile: titles to target, adjacent experience that would qualify, and red flags to screen out.
- Write 3-4 Boolean search strings tailored to {{role_requirements}}, {{location_requirement}}, and {{seniority_range}} for use on {{channels_available}}.
- Draft a short outreach message template that speaks to why this specific role and company would appeal to that candidate profile.
- Suggest where else this niche talent tends to be found, e.g. specific communities or events.
Output format — Four sections: "Candidate profile", "Boolean search strings", "Outreach message", "Additional sourcing channels". Concise, ready to use, under 320 words.
Guardrails — Never output fabricated candidate names, profiles, or contact details; only real people sourced through an actual search or database count. Flag when {{seniority_range}} or {{role_requirements}} is narrow enough to limit the candidate pool significantly. Keep outreach language honest about the role, not oversold.
Example — {{role_requirements}}: Databricks platform sales experience, {{location_requirement}}: United States, {{seniority_range}}: 10-20 years, {{channels_available}}: LinkedIn Recruiter, referral network.