Network Sourcing

Your team already knows your next hire

Some teams call it referral mining. Noon maps the professional networks of your employees, hiring managers, and past candidates, finds the people in them who match your role, and shows you who can make the introduction.

What Network Sourcing does

Referral mining, run continuously.

Maps the networks of your team, hiring managers, and past candidates
Evaluates every connection against your role’s criteria
Surfaces the warmest path to each qualified candidate
Works alongside whole-web sourcing, not instead of it
Keeps mining as your team and its networks grow

Referrals without waiting for them

Referred candidates are usually the fastest to close and the most likely to stay, but most referral programs depend on employees remembering someone at the right moment. Noon flips the order: it looks at who your team is already connected to, evaluates those people against the role the same way the AI Sourcer evaluates the open market, and tells you which colleague can make the warm introduction. Your team confirms in seconds instead of racking their memory. Learn more about the AI Sourcer and candidate sourcing strategies.

How referral mining works

From network to shortlist.

Your team connects the networks they want mined
Noon finds the connections who fit your open roles
Non-negotiables filter out anyone who misses the bar
Each match is tagged with who knows them and how
Feedback from your team calibrates future matches

Warm intros, automated follow-through

A referral only converts if someone follows up. Once a colleague confirms a connection, Noon runs personalized email and SMS outreach that references the shared connection, and the AI Scheduler books the conversation when the candidate replies. Every referral is tracked to interview and synced to your ATS, so you can see exactly how much of your pipeline comes from your team’s networks. Learn more about AI outreach and the AI Scheduler.

Referrals as a real channel

What changes when it is systematic.

Every qualified connection surfaced, not just the remembered ones
Outreach personalized with the shared connection
Replies engaged and interviews booked automatically
Referral-sourced candidates tracked end to end
Included in one unlimited plan, no per-referral fees

Network Sourcing FAQ

What is network sourcing?

Network sourcing, also known as referral mining, means finding candidates through the professional networks your company already has: employees, hiring managers, leadership, and past candidates. Noon does this systematically, evaluating the people in those networks against your open roles and surfacing the ones worth a warm introduction.

How is referral mining different from an employee referral program?

A referral program waits for employees to think of someone. Referral mining starts from the roles you are hiring for, looks across your team’s networks for people who fit, and asks the right colleague to confirm the connection. Your team spends seconds confirming rather than hours brainstorming.

Does Network Sourcing replace whole-web sourcing?

No. It runs alongside the AI Sourcer. The AI Sourcer covers the open market across the whole web, and Network Sourcing adds the warm candidates your team is connected to. Both feed the same pipeline, outreach, and scheduling.

How does Noon reach referred candidates?

Through personalized email and SMS outreach that references the shared connection, followed by the AI Scheduler booking the interview once the candidate replies. Everything syncs to your ATS across 20+ integrations.

Is Noon secure enough for our security review?

Noon is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, supports SSO and SAML, and offers dedicated support with custom contracts and invoicing for enterprise customers.

Explore the rest of Noon: AI Sourcer, AI Interviewer, AI Scheduler, AI Notetaker, AI Outreach, Inbound Screening, ATS Search, and Fraud Detection.

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