ProductTalent Pools

Your best candidates are already yours.

Vitae is the ATS and CRM that adapts to your business. Talent Pools turns the database you have already paid for into your best source: organised into pools, nurtured over months, and ready the day a matching brief lands.

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01The module/ six surfaces

A database is not an asset until you work it.

Every agency sits on thousands of candidates it never contacts again. Talent Pools is the module that turns that dead weight into a pipeline you own.

Pools

Group people the way you actually search

Build pools by skill, seniority, location, clearance, notice period, or anything else you track. A candidate can sit in as many pools as they belong to, and pools stay current as profiles change.

Nurture sequences

Stay in touch for months, not minutes

Sequences that run over weeks and months across email and LinkedIn, paced like a human would pace them. Every send stops the moment someone replies, so nobody gets a follow-up after they have already answered you.

Silver medalists

The candidate who nearly got it last time

The runner-up on a role you filled six months ago is the strongest candidate you own. Pool them at the point of rejection, keep them warm, and they are already interested when the next brief lands.

Action items

A reply becomes a task, not a lost email

When someone in a pool replies, engages, or updates their profile, it lands in your action items with the history attached. The follow-up sits on a list instead of in an inbox you meant to get back to.

Pool to pipeline

From dormant to shortlisted in one move

A role comes in that fits a pool you have been nurturing. Move people straight onto the job pipeline, with every past conversation, note, and screening score already on the record.

Consent + retention

Nurture that stays on the right side of GDPR

Consent is tracked on the record, right-to-be-forgotten flows are built in, and unsubscribes are honoured across every sequence. Long-term nurture only works if the compliance holds up.

02The long game/ dormant to placed

How a quiet database becomes a warm shortlist.

Nurture only pays off if it runs for months without anyone remembering to run it. Here is the loop.

  1. 01

    The database you already own

    Most agencies hold tens of thousands of candidates and speak to a few hundred a month. Everyone else went quiet, not away.

  2. 02

    Pools give it shape

    Group the database into pools that match how you win work: the skills your clients keep asking for, the markets you cover, the people who nearly landed a role.

  3. 03

    Sequences keep it warm

    A nurture sequence goes out over months, not days. Useful contact, paced properly, across email and LinkedIn, and it stops the second someone writes back.

  4. 04

    Replies come back to you

    Interest lands in your action items with the whole history attached, so the recruiter picking it up knows exactly what was said and when.

  5. 05

    A brief lands that fits

    Open the pool, move the right people onto the pipeline, and start the role with a warm shortlist instead of a blank search.

  6. 06

    The pool gets stronger

    Every role you run feeds people back into pools: new candidates, updated profiles, fresh runners-up. The asset compounds instead of going stale.

Months
Sequences paced for the long game, not the week
Stop
Every sequence halts the moment someone replies
One click
Move a pool onto a live role pipeline
Tracked
Consent and unsubscribes honoured everywhere

Running sequences to win clients rather than candidates? That is Outreach →

03Talent Pools FAQ/ six questions

Questions about talent pools.

What recruiters ask before they start working the database they already have.

Candidates covers people moving through live roles. Talent Pools covers everyone who is not on a role right now: past applicants, runners-up, people you met at an event, candidates who were not ready to move. It is the long game, and it runs on its own sequences and its own activity feed.
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