Past applicants who agreed to be kept on file are matched to the roles you open later. You see an anonymous card first. The candidate decides whether you learn who they are.
Talent pool matches
Who is in the pool
Nobody is added silently. On the apply form, candidates can tick If this role isn't a match, help me find other opportunities and choose who may consider them:
- Any company on the platform: matched to open roles at any company using aironauts® hire.
- Only this company: matched only to your own company's open roles.
The choice is stored as a timestamped consent record, and the candidate can withdraw it at any time from their own status page. See Your data and withdrawing consent.
An opted-in candidate becomes available for matching when either of these happens:
- Someone on your team confirms their rejection.
- Two weeks pass with no response. If nobody has moved their application on or booked an interview in the two weeks after they applied, they become available for other roles instead of going stale.
They stay in the pool for twelve months.
How matching works
Matching runs every hour. For each candidate who has become available, it compares their profile with the open roles that are taking applications, by meaning rather than exact keywords, and takes the five closest. A second pass then rates how well the candidate fits each of those roles from 0 to 100, judged on the role's must-have and preferred requirements. A fit of 60 or more becomes an introduction on that job.
Roles the candidate has already applied for are skipped, and each job gets at most one introduction per candidate. Your team gets a notification when a new match appears.
Anonymous introduction cards
Matches appear under Talent pool matches on the job's page, best fit first. A card shows only:
- Anonymous candidate and the fit score
- Their headline, an experience band such as 5-9 yrs, and their region
- Their top skills, in green where a skill covers one of the job's requirements
- A one-line reason for the match, and any dealbreakers in amber
No name, employer, contact details, links or exact location appear until the candidate accepts. Anyone in your workspace with access to the talent pool can see the cards; by default that is every role.
Request an introduction
Step 1: Press Request intro
On a card you want to pursue. The card changes to Awaiting applicant.
Step 2: The candidate decides
If they accept, their name, email and CV are shared with you, and a real application is created on the job. It is screened like any other, and the card shows their name with View application. If they decline, you never learn who they were.
An introduction that gets no answer expires after 30 days. Owners, Admins, Recruiters and Hiring Managers can request introductions.
What candidates see
Candidates are told what accepting means before they choose: who the company is, the role, and that accepting shares their identity and creates an application. See Talent pool introductions.