What this guide contains
- Why candidate data is the most perishable
- How fast a talent pool goes stale (15-20%/year)
- The half-life of a sourced list
- What decay costs in reachability and time-to-fill
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Why candidate data is the most perishable, how fast a pool goes stale, the cost, and the cadence that keeps it worth sourcing from.
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What you'll learn
- Why the best candidates have the stalest data
- Why pool size is a vanity metric
- How to estimate your own decay rate
- The re-verify cadence for a talent pool
Who it's for
- Recruiters and sourcers maintaining talent pools
- Talent leaders measuring time-to-fill
- RevOps-for-recruiting and HR ops
- Anyone sitting on a saved candidate list