What is a talent pool?
A talent pool is a database of selected internal and external candidates who possess the skills and qualities suitable to your organisation. They take an active interest in your success and potentially fill your future vacancies.
When a similar position appears, instead of advertising the role companies can look at the relevant talent pool and source the candidates most suited to the position. This saves a huge amount of recruiting time and sifting through hundreds of new CV’s. Sourcing a candidate from your talent pool helps keep the recruitment cost down and gives candidates a better overall experience.
Another benefit of using a talent pool is if you find a candidate whose skill set might not match the job they have applied for you can keep their information in a selected talent pool for future roles more suited towards them.
Why talent pools are great!
- Speeds up the process of recruitment
- Reduces expensive advertising
- Gives candidates a professional recruiting experience
- Less reliance on recruitment agencies
- Applicants will feel valued
Building and maintaining talent pools is important because it can act as a vital resource in your recruitment. With a talent pool you can track a candidate’s history of applications so you will know if they will be interested in a particular field and will most likely be pre-qualified for this position.
The distinct advantage for jobseekers joining a talent pool is that they can speed up the application process for a faster review of relevant qualifications making it much more efficient. Jobseekers can sign up to job alerts which will send them the details of new positions which are relevant to them.
To build an effective talent pool you need to incorporate an ATS into your recruitment process and that’s where we can help! Our portal uses a matching search engine leveraging past patterns of placements thereby matching candidates to suitable roles. Our talent pools are easy to monitor and aim to build a self-generating community. So if you want to start recruiting fast and efficiently go to mypeoplebiz.com or call 0207 980 3010.
Hannah perella
Having moved from the picturesque city of Bath where she graduated in English Literature and Creative Writing, Hannah is part of the dynamic marketing team at mypeoplebiz. She will be using her blogging skills to post advice and comments on the marketing and recruitment industry and will be exploring the exciting opportunities in social media networks.
