Introduction to Talent Communities

Talent Communities provide recruiters with a comprehensive toolset for sourcing and managing candidate data. They eliminate the need for manual searches and talent pool management allowing recruiters to focus on direct candidate outreach. This approach saves time and optimizes your organization's database of past applicants and potential candidates. In this article, we explore the concept of Talent Communities.

In this article:
What are Talent Communities?
Benefits of Talent Communities
Best Practices
Additional Resources

What is Talent Communities

Talent Communities enable recruiters to access a pipeline of pre-screened, qualified, and passive candidates who have previously engaged with the company. This ready-to-go pool facilitates quick and efficient recruitment outreach efforts.

Talent Communities combines the following key features:

1. Saved Search
2. Advanced Search with preset criteria
3. Bulk Actions
4. Automatic Tagging & Candidate Filtering

Benefits of Talent Communities

1. Tap into a database of candidates already interested in your company.
2. Reconnect with past candidates who may be ideal for current job openings.
3. Engage with candidates who are familiar with your company, making outreach more effective.
4. Benefit from candidates who have likely gained relevant experience since your last interaction.
5. Allow recruiters to prioritize relationship-building with qualified candidates over sourcing tasks.
6. Your existing database is a source of previously interested candidates.

Best Practices

1. Ensure that Hiring Workflows are configured to consider candidates for future roles based on their disposition status, this designation will determine whether the system excludes someone by default for your Talent Community or searches.
2. Further, define Dispositioning reasons like Dispositioning by the employer or the candidate. Create clear favorable dispositioning criteria like Favorable - Position Already Filled, Favorable - Great Fit But Not Enough Experience, Or Favorable - Accepted Another Job.
3. Establish a consistent Candidate Grading process across hiring teams to assess candidate suitability uniformly. 
4. Define, Standardize, and Expand your Tags. The system automatically tags a candidate’s role and location. Create Custom Tags for other important characteristics like time zone, key skills, differentiators (full-time/part-time/languages/shift preferences, etc. We use; Time Zone, Location, Title, Skill (Languages, Certifications, High Potential, Part Time Full Time, Weekends, Evenings.
5. Utilize Roles to streamline recruitment efforts by connecting candidates across similar requisitions. Talent Community uses you to use auto-tagging of Role information to easily draw connections between new and old requisitions.
6. Use Talent Communities’ Automatic Search and Manual Add Functionality. Dynamic search automatically adds a candidate as a prospect when they match a requisition’s criteria. You can also explicitly add a prospect to a Talent Community.
7. Commit to tagging favorable candidate’s records. Teach your team to take the time to tag so high-quality candidates that aren’t an immediate fit can easily be resurfaced for future opportunities
8. Develop standardized email templates for efficient follow-up with former candidates.

Additional Resources

Talent Communities: Getting Started
Talent Communities: Building a Pipeline