Effectively expanding the talent pool with ‘Analytics’

Hi outbound recruiters! hireEZ appreciates all your support on the platform, and we are dedicated to supporting our users through the entire recruitment process. That’s why we’re opening a new session in the community forum to share the best practice cases. Our first case here is about effectively expanding the talent pool with our Analytics tab.

What to do when run out of candidates?

It can be a challenge to search for niche candidates. Quite often, when you input the search criteria, only a few candidates are qualified. If you loosen the search criteria, although the talent pool gets bigger, sometimes the candidates will not align as closely to the role requirements. 

One of our hireEZ users, M, who was trying to source product managers with medical devices experience in a specific location, ran into a similar scenario. She had input the requirements step-by-step, however, only a few candidates populated, and soon she ran out of profiles to review. She then turned to her CSM, Peri, for help. 

Using Analytics as the 2nd layer of sourcing

Helping her quickly identify the must-have requirements and the nice-to-haves, Peri then asked M to loosen the criteria for nice-to-haves (for example, expand the criteria for total years of experience). 

Based on the discussion with the user, Peri guided the user to the Analytics tab, where they gained insights into the talent pool to determine how to best modify the search criteria to align with the available talent in the market. In this case, knowing that the industry background (in the medical devices space) was crucial to M’s search, Peri looked at the top 10 companies & top 10 industries from the Analytics with M. With the ability to click on the specific filtered groups, M found more qualified candidates in specific industries and certain companies she recognised. She even scrolled down, checked some of the top schools, and found some good fits there!

Analytics: real-time breakdown of the sourced talent pool

In the hireEZ  Enterprise plan, the Analytics tab is a valuable component of the search process, helping monitor the market statistics based on our job criteria in real-time. 

With the help of Analytics, you can view the full candidate pool to better hone in on candidates from specific fields, or to pick more suitable criteria that aligns more closely to the candidates in the market. Learning from this case - when you are running out of candidates, you can try to expand the talent pool by loosening the nice-to-have criteria, and then use the Analytics tab as the second (or even first!) layer of your sourcing process.

To learn more about the Analytics tab, please refer to this article: Enterprise: The Persona/Analytics Page