Talent Pools

A talent pool is a named group of contacts, such as a longlist for a role or a shortlist of people in one city. Each contact in it is a member. Talent pools are listed under Talent Pools. A talent pool opens on Members, with Details and Danger Zone alongside it. A member opens on Details, with Profile, Messages, Phone Calls and Files alongside it.

A talent pool can be tied to one job opening. Every member of that talent pool is then assessed against the job's criteria. A talent pool without a job opening is a plain list, and nobody in it is assessed.

The same person can be a member of several talent pools. Everything you edit on a member is saved on the contact behind them, so a correction shows everywhere that person appears, labels included.

Relations

• Contact: the person a member is. Every field you edit belongs to them.
• Job opening: a talent pool has at most one. You can change it on the talent pool's Details tab.
• AI assessment: one per person per job opening, read on the member's Profile tab.
• Insights: the contact's career figures, such as experience, tenure and an estimated salary, shown under About on the member's Profile tab.
• Application: what a member becomes when you convert them.
• Label: a talent pool has labels of its own, attached with + Label in its header. Members show the labels of the contact behind them instead.

Creating a talent pool

To start a new group of contacts, create a talent pool.

1. Open Talent Pools.
2. Select New Talent Pool.
3. Fill in the Name, and a Description if you like.
4. Pick a Job Opening to have every member assessed against it, or leave it on No job opening.
5. Select Create Talent Pool.

The talent pool opens, empty and ready for members.

Finding a talent pool

The Talent Pools list shows the Name, the Job Opening with its Department and Location, the number of Members, the Labels and when it was Updated. Search by name or description, and filter on Job Opening, Department, Location or Label. Pick No labels to find the talent pools nobody has labelled yet.

Department and location come from the talent pool's job opening. A talent pool without a job opening never matches a department or location you pick, but it stays in the list when you exclude one. To find those talent pools, pick No job opening in the Job Opening filter. Once you pick a department or location, the Job Opening filter only offers the jobs that fit it.

Adding members

There are four ways to add people to a talent pool.

• Source Profiles in the talent pool's header searches for people you don't hold yet. See Source Profiles.
• Add Contacts in the talent pool's header opens a page with the contacts you already hold that are not in the pool yet. Select them and choose Add to Talent Pool. Added contacts leave the list, so you can keep going.
• Add to Talent Pool on a contact, or in the selection bar of the contacts list, adds those contacts to a talent pool you pick.
• Import Contacts in the talent pool's header adds people from a CSV or Excel file. They become contacts and members of this pool. See Importing contacts.

People who are already a member are skipped. On a talent pool with a job opening, each new member is assessed automatically.

The contacts list shows how many talent pools each contact is in, and its Talent Pool filter narrows the list to the members of one or more pools.

Filtering the members

The list shows the Name, the Assessment, the Labels, the current Title and Company, the Salary, the Location, and the Quality and Transition signals. Select Columns to add Telecommute, Activity, Email, Phone or Added.

1. Open the talent pool.
2. Search by name, email or phone.
3. Filter on Match, Label, Quality, Transition, Telecommute or Activity.
4. Sort by Score, Added at or Updated at.
5. Select a member to open their record.

A talent pool with a job opening opens with the best fit first. Members that have not been assessed yet sort last.

Insights

To see what the members look like as a group, open the talent pool's Insights tab. It is worked out from the members' career data each time you open the talent pool.

• Average career profile describes a typical member, averaged over the whole pool: experience, tenure per employer, longest tenure, career gaps, time in the current role, promotions, salary and salary growth at the last move.
• Signals shows, for transition, activity, telecommute and quality, how the members spread over the levels from Very low to Very high, with the unrated members in grey at the end. The figure next to each bar is the share of the rated members at High or above (Medium or above for telecommute). Hover over a part of the bar to see how many members it holds. Select it, or the figure, to open Members filtered to those levels.
• Salary shows the pool's median base salary and where the middle half of the pool sits, from the lowest quarter to the highest quarter. When the job opening has a salary, it is marked on the same line as Your job.
• Compared to your job shows the job's salary next to the pool's, and which share of the members earns a lower base salary than the middle of the job's range. It stays empty on a talent pool without a job opening, or when the job opening has no salary.
• Assessment appears on a talent pool with a job opening. It lists the job's criteria, most important first. For each one you see the members' average score, a bar of how many members match it at each level, and how many are rated. Members whose profile says nothing about the criterion are striped, and members not assessed on it yet are left empty.
• Where they work, What they know and Where they live rank the most common employers, skills and places, with the number of members and their share of the pool.

Only members with career data count. A figure without enough data shows a dash.

Exporting members

To take a list of members elsewhere, export them as a CSV file.

1. Open the talent pool.
2. Tick the members you want, or tick the header to select them all.
3. Select Export in the selection bar and confirm.

The file holds the contacts behind the members.

Converting to application

To move a member into the pipeline for the talent pool's job opening, convert them to an application. The application gets a stage and an assignee.

1. Open the member.
2. Select Convert in the header.
3. Confirm on Convert to application.

Applyfin creates the application and opens it.

Removing members

To take people out of a talent pool without losing them, remove them.

1. Open the talent pool.
2. Tick the members you want.
3. Select Remove in the selection bar.
4. Confirm.

To remove one member from their own record, open them and select Remove from Talent Pool. On a pool with a job, it sits behind the arrow next to Create Application in the header. On a pool without one, it is the Remove from Pool button. It is also on the Danger Zone tab. The contact, their profile and their assessments stay.

Editing a talent pool

To change the name, the description or the job opening, edit the talent pool.

1. Open the talent pool.
2. Select Details.
3. Change what you need.
4. Select Save Details.

Deleting a talent pool

1. Open the talent pool.
2. Select Danger Zone.
3. Select Delete Talent Pool.
4. Type the talent pool's name, confirm the action and select Delete.

Deleting removes the talent pool and its members. The contacts and their assessments stay.

Anonymizing a talent pool

To remove the personal data of everyone in a talent pool at once, anonymize it. Only owners, admins and HR managers see this option.

1. Open the talent pool.
2. Select Danger Zone.
3. Select Anonymize Members and confirm.

Members who have an application are skipped. A message tells you how many members are being anonymized and how many were skipped. The work runs in the background, so the member list can take a moment to catch up.

The Messages tab

A member has the same Messages, Phone Calls and Files tabs as the contact behind them, with the same history. Reading them is covered under The Messages tab.