Finding the best applicants for your job Openings quickly and at the lowest cost is a continual challenge, especially when looking for a high volume of frontline workers.
TA, Recruiting, and HR teams are tasked with finding and delivering top talent at a moment's notice, but are often stuck operating reactively, relying on costly sourcing channels like Indeed. But what if your next great hire has already applied to your company in the past?
Fountain Pool is a cutting-edge talent engagement platform designed to meet the unique needs of high-volume, frontline hiring. By integrating a CRM-style talent database, predictive candidate ranking and matching, dynamic messaging capabilities, and cross-product automations, Fountain Pool streamlines the hiring process while delivering a personalized, impactful candidate experience. This platform empowers businesses to quickly connect with top talent, reduce time-to-hire, and scale workforce operations effectively.
Pool Benefits:
Scheduling and Maintenance Time Saving: Save your teams' valuable time by automating audience creation, campaign setup, and execution compared to manual methods.
Decreased time-to-hire: Because Pool talent applicants are pre-vetted and have indicated interest in your company in the past, you have a higher chance of filling positions vs. less-reliable applicant acquisition channels.
Improved conversions (Flow-to-Hire rate): The Pool is full of “warm leads,” which means the group is already high-quality. It will be easier and faster to find candidates without having to sort through as many unqualified or uninterested applicants.
Reduced screening overhead: For applicants coming from Pool, screening may take less time and effort
Increased retention: Because you’ve already established a relationship with the Pool of talent applicants, those candidates have a higher chance of coming on board with a positive outlook about your company.
Pool Glossary
Review the table below for common terms related to Fountain Pool:
Term | Definition |
Talent | Contact records that are stored in Pool. Individual talent records are referred to as Talent Profiles or contacts. Talent records are an aggregate of the applicant records, worker records, and/or prospect records that are found with matching email addresses. |
Talent Profile | The aggregate of relevant information about a given talent record, including contact information, links to Hire Applicant Profiles, and their Worker Profile if applicable. Access an individual’s Talent Profile by clicking on a talent contact’s name. |
Match Score | An intelligent scoring system that ranks how well a given person, via their Talent Profile, matches a specific job’s criteria, based on the alignment of the person’s skills, availability, location, and the job requirements. Fountain uses ONET to find skills related to the talent.
Fountain’s AI cross-references the talent's information with O*NET, or the Occupational Information Network, a comprehensive database that provides detailed information about the world of work. It's the U.S. Department of Labor's primary source of occupational information, offering insights into various jobs, including skills based on roles. Pool uses these relevant skills to match talent against your jobs, which also generates a set of required skills via O*NET comparison. |
Audience | A saved set of Talent Profiles matching preconfigured filter criteria, such as with a match score percentage of a specific job, located in a specific city, or with applied previously after a specific date. Audiences are dynamic, meaning that as new Talent Profiles are added that match the inclusion criteria, they’ll be included in the audience, or as Talent Profiles cease to meet that audience’s criteria (they get hired, opt out of messaging, etc.), they’ll be removed from the audience. |
Campaign | A single or set of multi-touch outreach messages delivered to an audience at a defined cadence, by either Email or SMS. Campaigns can be used to invite talent to apply for a new job Opening, to invite them to an upcoming event, to send engaging “nurture” messages over time, or for any other communication or outreach purpose. |
Account Configuration Articles
To use the Fountain Pool, you will need to ensure some basic settings are configured in your Fountain account. We recommend reviewing the following articles in the order listed below to ensure these steps are complete before reviewing additional Pool articles or resources.
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