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Why Us?
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We Believe Recruiting Can Become
A Company’s Superpower.

All too often, recruiting is viewed as a necessary evil. Companies need candidates but they don’t have time to find them and finding a reliable scalable solution is difficult. We operate differently, helping you develop a talent strategy while successfully filling the roles you need right now. Grow fast, scale seamlessly, and put a recruiting process in place that will be valuable for years to come.

Why work with us?

Our mission is to make recruiting successful and enjoyable. We want you to be proud of the team we’ve built together and the talent strategy we’ve put in place to help your company grow.

How we’re different

We’re transparent. No withholding names of candidates or keeping your name from them, and we hold weekly check-ins to keep you up on our progress.
Every candidate we source and qualify for your company is exclusively yours until one of you decides to pass on the opportunity.
We look for talent in many places. We’re not just pulling from resumes on LinkedIn, we’re always finding new talent and making connections when there’s a good fit.

We get things done

3-year average client relationship
We’ve helped hire people in 14 different countries
70% of roles we fill are technical hires
We average 10+ hires per client
It takes us about 10 weeks on average to fill a new role
16. The average number of candidates we submit per role

Meet The Team

We are creators, thinkers, data nerds, and people magnets, and we’re serious about delivering your talent pipeline.

Jessica Stielau
CEO

Joe George
Head of Sales

Mike Haydon
Head of Marketing

Jessica Stielau

CEO

Jessica Stielau is founder and CEO of The Sourcery. Putting her scientific background to perfect use, Jessica has been obsessed with improving recruitment work since she first joined the firm that preceded The Sourcery. Less than a year later, under her leadership and guidance, The Sourcery discovered its sweet spot: helping startups hire. The Sourcery’s team has now doubled while helping more than 350 companies hire hundreds of top candidates, many of whom have become hiring managers themselves.

Jessica graduated Magna Cum Laude from Colby College with a B.A in English and Environmental Policy, and she earned her M.S. in Climate Change and Marine Ecology from the University of Washington.

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Joe George

Head of Sales

Joe George is the Head of Sales, where he leads vertical and key account sales efforts for The Sourcery. Joe has over 15 years of professional services experience in the staffing and recruiting industry. He spent more than seven years with Robert Half International, as a leader managing and building out sales verticals throughout the Bay Area. Joe then joined a small health care technology startup, which, through his guidance, was acquired twice to become Willis Towers Watson, serving a tenure of more than six years. He recently worked with Roth Staffing as Market Manager with 13 reports across the Bay Area.

Joe has been honored in Washington D.C. by Inc. 500 with the 2012 Hire Power Award. Born in The Bay and raised in South Florida – Go Noles!

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Mike Haydon

Head of Marketing

Mike Haydon is the Head of Marketing, where he leads brand messaging, channel communications, and advertising for The Sourcery. Michael uses a blend of creativity and a data-driven approach to further brand awareness and specializes in customer lifecycle marketing. He began his career as a consultant working with several small, mid, and eventually enterprise clientele. He relies on his strong strategy, market research, and planning skills to inform effective content creation, direct marketing, and marketing automation.

Michael earned his BFA in Advertising & Design from Sanford-Brown, MBA with an emphasis in Marketing at APUS, and has received professional certifications from top universities, including UC Berkeley and Wharton, among others. He was born and raised in Sacramento, with a couple of stints in Hong Kong, and then moved to the Bay Area in 2013.

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Carmen Lapham Carmen spends her time with her family, friends, fostering great danes, and helping clients find great talent. A self-proclaimed geek, she loves learning about the latest in technology, and in a previous life worked with a company that managed the Star Wars and Star Trek fan clubs.
Victoria Velez Prior to joining The Sourcery, Victoria worked in Operations for ESPN Latin America. Having graduated from the University of Miami, she continues to be a die hard ‘Canes fan. She loves hanging out with her dog and taking pictures of him being adorable.
Anthony Lynch Anthony is the recruiting equivalent of the Juggernaut; an unstoppable force in talent acquisition. He is also a published author who is passionate about Warriors basketball, fantasy novels, MMA, and Survivor!
Anisha Rassai Below is a fun photo from Cinque Terre, Italy last summer! Anisha is a mother, Bay Area native, loves spending time with friends, family and traveling. Anisha is a people person that values relationships to foster growth and positivity. Anisha appreciates art, exploring cultures and her house is where she nests.
Michelle Safi Michelle joined The Sourcery team with experience in recruiting and HR working at the SF Symphony and Stanford University. She is a Recruiter by day and an Actor by night. She has lived in Santa Cruz, SF, LA and currently resides in Paris where she enjoys the occasional baguette/fromage picnic by the seine! 🙂
David Villanueva David is a published children’s author, likes to hike, wishes he had a tree house, and loves blues and soul music, especially the music of Etta James!