Talent pools & sourcing

Keep great people close, before the role even opens

Save runners-up and future hires in talent pools, track outreach pushes as campaigns, and find anyone you already have by describing them in plain words.

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Talent pools

Saved lists of people, not tied to a job. Add from a profile, the board or the Candidates list.

Campaigns

A time-boxed outreach push on LinkedIn, email, referrals, events, job boards or agencies, with a simple funnel.

Smart search

Type “React developers in Pune with 5+ years” and see the filters Otter understood — edit or remove any of them.

From pool to pipeline in one step

When a role opens, select people in a pool and choose Add to a job with a starting stage. Anyone already in that pipeline is skipped. Automations can add people to a pool too.

Past runners-up, former employees
Add many people at once
Everyone with candidate access can see pools
Recruiters and admins manage them

See which outreach actually works

Link a campaign to a job, a pool or both, and keep its numbers up to date: contacted, replied and interested, by channel and status.

Otter Campaigns with channels, funnel and status, from the Northwind Labs demo workspace

Search that explains itself

Smart search turns plain words into visible filters for skills, title, company, location, years of experience and more. Each result shows why it matched. Words about age, gender, family, religion, caste, race, health or sexuality are left out and listed as Not used, and search never rejects or moves anyone.

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