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Comment by helen___keller | Hacker News Reader

Was she a recruiter? It didn’t specify in the article

In recent years, "sourcers" are the ones who email / call engineers on behalf of the recruiters. They are part of the recruiting department.

Article says:

"Levy previously told Insider she was hired on Meta’s Sourcer Development Program, a 12-month program that helps workers from underrepresented groups enter the corporate technology recruiting industry."

I'm surprised there was a 12-month program to become a sourcer.

I don't know that this is the case for the lady in the article, but usually recruiters/sourcers at these companies are on contract for 12 months max, due to the hiring company not wanting them to appear as employees and thus not get full benefits.

It could make sense. I'm assuming they will be doing actual work during that time. A paid 12 month long apprenticeship would be good for both parties. It's enough time for Meta to decide if they want to hire an employee full time, and a year would give sourcers a decent amount of experience if they wanted to leave.

it's in the headline: "staffer"

Doesn't that just mean she was on the staff? I wouldn't understand staffer to mean recruiter. Is it different in the US?

Staffer means member of staff. For example, engineers are staffers.

That just means a member of staff.

Ok sorry. Then it was a misunderstanding of my side as non native speaker. I always assumed it means recruiter since I’ve so far never seen the word used in another context

No worries :-). To be fair, it does sound, "staff-er", like someone who produces "staff". I've never it used as a reference to recruitment, but perhaps in some contexts it is used that way.

This may also mean "someone who finds staff" aka a sourcer. The person in the article seems to be talking about the placement of others that were sourced through the program they were in.

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