Own your talent pool
Direct Sourcing Programmes
Direct sourcing is hiring contingent and permanent workers from your own talent pool — alumni, past applicants and brand followers — instead of paying agency fees each time. TalentStores builds, nurtures and activates that pool for you.
- Fee on redeployment
- No agency fee
- Pool sources
- Alumni, applicants, referrals
- Matching
- TalentOS ranked
How it works
The pool is assembled first. TalentStores consolidates the candidates you already have — silver-medallist applicants, former contractors, alumni employees, referral networks and careers-site registrations — deduplicates them, enriches skills from prior applications and assessments, and tags availability and rate expectations.
Nurture keeps it alive. Segmented campaigns, skills-refresh prompts and re-engagement sequences run automatically, so when a requisition opens the pool is current rather than a two-year-old spreadsheet. TalentOS ranks pool members against the new role and surfaces the ones worth contacting first with the reason for the match.
Activation is where the saving lands. A matched pool member is engaged directly under your brand, at your rate card, with no agency fee. Where the engagement is contract-based, employment or payrolling runs through licensed partners in our vetted ecosystem. Programmes typically pair direct sourcing with an MSP or VMS so redeployment is measured against agency spend.
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Consolidate the pool
Alumni, silver medallists, past contractors and applicants merged and deduplicated.
- 2
Enrich and tag
Skills, availability, rate expectation and prior assessment results attached to each profile.
- 3
Nurture continuously
Segmented campaigns and refresh prompts keep the pool current between requisitions.
- 4
Activate on demand
TalentOS ranks and surfaces matches; engagement runs under your brand, fee-free.
What's included
Talent pool consolidation
Multiple candidate sources merged into one deduplicated, permission-managed pool.
Branded talent community
A careers-branded registration and profile experience that keeps candidates opted in.
Automated nurture campaigns
Segmented outreach, availability checks and skills-refresh prompts on a schedule.
AI redeployment matching
TalentOS ranks pool members against open roles with the reasoning behind each match.
Curated pool for contingent roles
Pre-qualified, rate-agreed talent ready for contract engagement via partner payrolling.
Savings measurement
Direct-sourced placements tracked against equivalent agency fees to prove programme value.
Frequently asked questions
How much does direct sourcing save?
Savings come from avoided agency fees on redeployed hires, so they scale with pool activation rate rather than pool size. The platform reports every direct-sourced placement against the agency fee that role would otherwise have carried.
Who employs a direct-sourced contract worker?
Not TalentStores. Contract engagements are payrolled by a licensed partner in our vetted ecosystem, or by your own entity if you prefer. The platform manages sourcing, engagement, timesheets and settlement around that.
How do you keep the talent pool compliant?
Consent is captured at registration with purpose and retention period recorded, candidates can update or delete their profile themselves, and stale records are aged out automatically according to the retention rules you configure.
How long before a direct sourcing programme delivers?
Pool consolidation and the branded community usually take four to eight weeks. Meaningful redeployment volume typically appears from the second quarter, once nurture has refreshed availability across a large enough segment.
Ready to talk through Direct Sourcing?
Book a working session with our team, or take a self-guided tour of the platform first. Either way you will see the real workflow, partners and commercials before you commit.
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