The Curriculum

Stop winging it. Start outperforming.
This is where serious recruiters train.

TSIU's core curriculum includes the course Recruiting Smarter With Shally which consist of five modules built around real sourcing scenarios and current tools. You learn by doing the work, not watching someone else do it.

Topics include:

Boolean Mastery ✦ X-Ray Search ✦ Deep Web ✦ Natural Language Search ✦ AI-Powered Sourcing ✦ Talent Intelligence ✦ Talent Market Mapping ✦ Outreach That Converts ✦ Pipeline Architecture ✦ Hiring Manager Partnership ✦ Stakeholder Influence ✦ Candidate Assessment ✦ Workflow Automation ✦ Sourcing Analytics
tsi university CORE LEARNING MODULES

Recruiting Smarter With Shally

With about 90+ hours of core curriculum across 5 major modules, plus ongoing monthly content updates, regular weekly live sessions, community discussions, and access to a growing library of resources and previously published courses, Recruiting Smarter With Shally has everything you need to elevate your career. 

5 Core Modules

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Shally Steckerl

Founded by Shally Steckerl, the global authority on talent sourcing and recruitment strategy, TSI University is where practitioners come to master the craft of finding, engaging, and hiring talent that doesn't want to be found.

Shally has spent nearly three decades building high-performing teams and helping organizations turn talent acquisition into a competitive advantage. Shally doesn't just teach sourcing. He transforms how organizations think about talent. 


Whether you're sharpening your own skills or building a world-class team, this is where transformation happens.

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

Completion Expectations

The five core modules are comprised of chapters, each one ranging in time investment from a minimum of 2 minutes to a maximum of 15 minutes. Learners should generally devote one-third of their time to reading, watching or listening and two-thirds to external activities as directed. 

For example, a 15-minute module typically involves an additional half-hour of activities such as practice, formative exercises, independent study, reading handouts, and completing the post-module knowledge check.

Time investment varies from one learner to another. Listed on the course page, each activity states an approximate length of time expected for completion based on either average reading speed, or the number of video/audio minutes included.

While the average total time expected to complete the full program once-through, at a reasonable pace and without repetition, is approximately 80 hours, the total program time can range from a minimum 30 to a maximum of 120 hours, excluding weekly meetings. Expect to invest and about 2 hours per live meeting. One for attendance or replay, the other in hands-on practice.

Program Duration

Your full TSI University learning track for Recruiting Smarter With Shally includes high-impact training content across sourcing, recruiting operations, search mastery, AI workflows, and hiring-manager excellence.

Total Structured Content in Recruiting Smarter With Shally

5 courses consisting of 30+ modules and 220+ learning activities 
30 hours
of guided lessons, examples, case studies, and demonstrations.

Practical Learning Reality

Most learners take 30–80 hours once you include:

  • Pausing and reviewing techniques

  • Practicing searches

  • Applying lessons to live reqs

  • Completing worksheets and quizzes

  • Implementing playbooks in their own workflow


Recommended Pacing Options

Choose the style that fits your schedule, need, and urgency:


Fast-Track (3 Days) - Main Learning Path, No Extras

  • Day 1: Foundations, workflows, strategy, planning

  • Day 2: Hiring-manager alignment, intake, outreach 

  • Day 3: Advanced search mastery, AI and Automation

Ideal for teams onboarding quickly or recruiters jumping into complex reqs.


Standard Pace (5 Days) - Main Learning Path, No Extras

  • 3 hours of content per day

  • Allows time to practice between modules

  • Best for retention and application


Advanced Learning (2 Weeks) - Main Learning Path, No Extras

  • 60–90 minutes per day

  • Time to put each technique into actual hiring situations

  • Perfect for long-term skill adoption and performance change


Deep Mastery (3 Months) - Main Learning Path + All Modules and Extras

  • 5 hours per week (incl. attending office Hours, Jam Sessions and Masterclasses)

  • Learn how to apply frameworks instinctively and apply to any new setting 

  • Expand techniques into new and unexplored areas

Minimum Time to Complete

Hours

Average Time to Complete

Hours

Maximum Time to Complete

Hours

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Repeatable sourcing frameworks
  • Better search results in less time
  • Outreach that gets replies
  • Confident intake leadership
  • Tight hiring-manager partnerships
  • Practical AI workflows
  • Unfair advantages
HOW IT'S TAUGHT

Video Courses

Through a curated blend of foundational and advanced modules, participants will gain deep expertise in managing sourcing workflows, decoding hiring manager behavior, architecting effective searches and engaging passive talent through precision-targeted communication.

Live Weekly Sessions

Weekly live-group coaching lesson alternate between deep dive masterclasses, review and Q&A's, and Jam Sessions. During these recorded meetings participants ask questions and compare their work with the rest of the community. 

Private Community

Access to a Members Only Community of like-minded people where you'd be able to get tons of additional resources, handouts and more.

Format Mix

  1. Video Lessons: 40%
  2. Text/Reading: 25%
  3. Interactive Activities: 20%
  4. Quizzes/: 15%
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A paradigm shift in
Sourcing & Recruiting

The Right Methods

Enterprise-grade sourcing methods, empowering teams to boost productivity by at least 30%, with many hitting more than 200% efficiency gains in year one

Clarity

Clarity for TA professionals to identify, engage and nurture top-quality candidates especially the unfindable and passive ones

Experience

Root programs in three decades of sourcing, innovation and leadership fueling a sustainable competitive advantage through talent sourcing

Quality > Quantity

Quality over quantity: fewer contacts, higher match quality, improve candidate experience, improved hiring manager experience

Why TSI University?

Because generic recruiting training doesn't cut it anymore.
You need strategies that work in the real world, taught by someone who's been in the trenches for nearly three decades.

What makes us different:
  • Practitioner-led: Not theory. Not fluff. Real strategies from someone who's sourced for the world's most competitive companies.
  • Community-driven: Learn from and alongside the best sourcers, recruiters, and TA leaders in the industry.
  • Proven methodologies: The Sourcing Method, Boolean expansion, contact discovery cascade, total addressable talent market, candidate scoring rubrics, workflow automation, all battle-tested and ready to deploy.
  • Continuous evolution: Sourcing changes fast. So do we. Monthly content, live sessions, and ongoing innovation keep you ahead.
TSI University

Who This Is For

Master the Art of Recruiting

You're tired of surface-level recruiting advice and want deep, tactical expertise

Sourcing Belief

You believe sourcing is a craft worth mastering, not just a box to check

Community Support

You want to be part of a community that challenges you to get better

Ready to Take Action

You're ready to invest in yourself or your team

This Is Not For You If:

  • You're looking for quick hacks or magic buttons
  • You want someone else to do the work for you
  • You're not willing to engage, practice, and apply what you learn
Our Story

About The Sourcing Institute

Pioneering Talent Discovery

It began with a desire to uncover the secrets of finding the unfindable using the latest in sourcing technology. This drive led to the creation of The Sourcing Institute (TSI), the first ever online school dedicated to talent sourcing and recruiting, which has grown to become the fountainhead of knowledge for successful sourcers, recruiters, and talent acquisition leaders worldwide.

Three Decades of Excellence Transforming Talent Acquisition

In 1996, we founded the Talent Sourcing category and have been creating Sustainable Talent Advantages for recruitment organizations and individuals ever since. We have implemented highly successful Enterprise Solutions for thousands of companies including many Fortune 500 Companies, unicorn startups, high growth businesses and government entities. The majority of our graduates get promoted or increase billings within 6 months.

TSI offers the only comprehensive diagnostic program in the industry that measures recruitment skill gaps 100% objectively. This allows us to design, develop and deliver fully customized learning paths focusing only on missing knowledge areas, saving time and money.

Tangible Results and Productivity Boosts

Our recruitment curriculum is delivered via university-style online modules, instructor-led virtual workshops, and in-person onsite. Our solutions will produce an increase of a minimum 30% in overall productivity. When all of the recommended methods are deployed, many have been able to gain an increase in efficiency of 200% and higher within the first year after completing the program, with momentum extending that growth additionally over the second and third years.

Boost in efficiency and productivity
within the first year

TSIU's Commitment

TSIU employs an intimate, hands-on, and extraordinarily thorough approach, and leaves no stone unturned. We are the most experienced and affordable solution in the market.
Today, TSI University has more than 500 active users learning the most advanced sourcing and recruiting techniques every day.