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Post-CSE Talent Sourcing Survival Guide

Your Sourcing Playbook Just Broke. Here's What Replaces It.

Google is killing full-web Programmable Search by January 2027. Most TA teams won't notice until it's too late.
Get the replacement stack that actually works.

What Just Changed

By January 1, 2027, Google Programmable Search loses full-web access. That quiet loophole you've been using for discovery? Gone.
  • Finding people who don't show up on LinkedIn
  • Discovering new talent ecosystems
  • Reverse-engineering communities and conferences
  • Connecting fragmented signals across the open web
Who gets hit hardest:
Healthcare • Scientific • Academic • Government • Security/Clearance • Non-LinkedIn professions

If your talent pool lives outside LinkedIn, you're about to feel this.
Most teams will respond by narrowing their world, competing harder for the same visible talent.

That's not a strategy. It's a risk.
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What replaces CSE isn't a tool. It's a stacked workflow:

Discovery → Enumeration → Entity Resolution → Attribute Extraction → Contact Discovery → Outreach → Grounding

This guide gives you the tools, workflows, and decision frameworks to operationalize every phase.






The Solution:
The Post-CSE Sourcing Stack

Inside the guide:
  • The replacement stack (what tools, when, why)
  • How to use the ≤50 domain version of CSE strategically
  • Domain library templates for healthcare, scientific, and cleared 
  • Entity resolution workflows (turn artifacts into profiles)
  • Grounding with NotebookLM 
  • Skills that rise vs. skills that decline
  • Recommended moves for sourcers, TA leaders, and CPOs