Friday, October 16, 2026 | 12:30 p.m.- 1:30 p.m., ET
Content Level: Foundational
Your client applies for a job and hears nothing. Another candidate who appears less qualified receives an email or call from a recruiter about an open role. Why did the recruiter find one and not the other?
Often, the answer starts before a resume is ever opened.
LinkedIn’s 2026 talent research found that U.S. applicants, per open role, have doubled since spring 2022, yet 66% of recruiters say it has become harder to find qualified talent.
More applications do not necessarily mean better matches. Qualified candidates can still be difficult to find when their resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and other professional data do not give recruiting technology and recruiters enough evidence to recognize their fit. And this goes far beyond keywords.
Today's recruiting platforms and job boards can help recruiters search, match, and prioritize candidates using titles, skills, experience, location, companies, industries, and other professional signals. AI-assisted sourcing is adding another layer by helping recruiters interpret hiring requirements and identify candidates whose qualifications may not be obvious through a traditional keyword search.
But technology is only part of the process.
In this webinar you will learn:
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How recruiters FIND candidates. Watch a live recruiter-side demonstration of how hiring requirements become searches across LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter and see how AI-assisted sourcing is expanding candidate discovery beyond traditional keyword searches.
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How recruiters REVIEW candidates. See what appears in recruiter search results before a resume or full profile is opened, how your client appears alongside other potential candidates, and what makes a recruiter stop and pre-select them. Elena will discuss factors such as relevant experience, career progression, tenure, scope, and evidence of results.
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How recruiters SCREEN and shortlist candidates. Learn where AI-assisted matching and relevance tools can help prioritize candidates and what the recruiter still validates during the initial call, including motivation, compensation, location, availability, communication and the candidate's ability to speak credibly about the experience presented on the resume.
You will leave with a practical, behind-the-scenes understanding of today's recruiting process and specific ways to help your clients become easier to find, easier to understand and better prepared when a recruiter makes contact. Bring your questions to get answers.
Elena Sabry is a Recruiting Partner with Goodwin Recruiting and an Executive Career Coach working on both sides of hiring. In this session, she will take resume writers and career coaches behind the recruiter's screen through live screen demonstrations showing how recruiters search for and see candidates in LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter.
Attendees will see how a hiring requirement becomes a search, what candidate information appears in recruiter search results before and after a profile or resume is opened, how candidates appear alongside their competition, how AI-assisted tools can influence which candidates are surfaced or prioritized, and what the recruiter still needs to validate through human judgment and conversation. Most importantly, you will see your clients as recruiters see them and learn what you can do differently when writing, positioning, and coaching them.
