This week one of our insightful Community members, ​@wmann, mentioned that she likes the Talent Pool Tab of her Projects because it saves her “hours of manually sourcing.” That got me thinking that this is a great time to do some (Talent) Pool maintenance. 

• Talent Pool Tab: The Talent Pool tab houses several sections.
  1. Recruiter Search
  2. Recommended Matches
  3. Hidden candidates

 Let’s take a look at each of them and how they help you with your sourcing. 

1. The Recruiter Search which has 2 primary sections:
   • • AI-Assisted search (the diamond-AI star)
     • Filters

AI-Assisted Search: The AI-Assisted Search feature helps you find candidates by interpreting plain language requests and suggesting relevant filters. Let it help you think creatively about skills, other job titles, industries, or groups (and more) that may expand (or narrow) your searches. It’s a powerful tool in your tool kit.

Filters: Once you have Filters open, you will see results at the top of the search bar. This shows you how many candidates have been found. The ellipses (…)in the upper right of the search bar allows you to Manage search (View saved searches, Save as new search, View search history, Clear search) and Custom filters (Save as new custom filer, Delete custom filters)

A word about the Custom filters. You can create custom filters anytime you want to prefill a set of criteria that will work across all your projects. This helps you refine your searches with the criteria you want using just one click. Custom filters work alongside saved searches for more targeted results. 

Scrolling to the bottom of your filters in this column, you will find a button for your Advanced filters. Advanced filters: Refine your search results by accessing advanced filters through the Advanced search button. There are 5 categories:

• Candidate details
• Education and experience
• Company
• Recruiting & candidate activity
• Custom fields

If you are not sure what each category is, go check them out. You won’t hurt anything by trying them. The candidates won’t know they came up in your search, for example. And if you try a filter and come up with no results, clear the filter.

Having a good understanding of the available filters will help you to understand what is on candidates’ profiles – and what is then used by Recruiter to find them - even when AI is searching for you! 

Another thing to mention: custom fields are built by you and your team. You can build them for anything you would like to track as you get to know the candidates. I find having a custom field for citizenship/visa status is helpful. I had my Admin build me a custom field called “Visa.”  In my candidate conversations I can ask about work authorization. The categories I have are:

• In Progress
• Student Visa
• Full Visa
• Green Card
• Citizen

This allows me to mark that information quickly (in the Recruiting Tools > Custom Field section) while I talk to the candidate. If my team and I consistently mark that information, then we can search for it in our projects. BTW, if someone is ‘In Progress’ with their visa, I ask when they expect it to come through so I can set a Reminder (also in the Recruiting Tools section) and follow-up with them.

2. Recommended Matches        

Recommended matches are refreshed each day and the candidates are given to you based on the work you have done choosing and hiding qualified candidates from your project. There are several buttons (filters) at the top of your result list. All recommended matches are the combined matches in all the categories that are given to you each day. The categories are:

• Rediscovered candidates
• Today’s top matches
• Based on your pipeline skills
• Open to work
• Candidates with company connections
• Engaged with your talent brand

3. Hidden candidates

Use Hidden candidates for anyone who doesn’t exactly fit the qualifications for project. If a candidate showed up in your results after you narrowed it with the skills, experience, and other important criteria, but they are not a good fit, hide them! You can always change your mind because they will be in this tab. By doing this, you are helping Recruiter to learn who you want to find.

More information is available in the Learning Center and Help. AND you are always welcome to come to a Live Q&A and geek out with me or my colleagues over any of this!