How to conduct candidate rediscovery with Greenhouse ATS

Your ATS is a treasure trove of untapped potential. Applicants who had previously shown an interest in your company could be the perfect fit for a job now. But it’s nearly impossible to know, since their profiles and information are out of date as soon as they enter an ATS.

Because it’s so difficult to search the ATS, talent teams spend their time and energy looking for candidates in other channels or spending on ads to attract applicants. While they’ll certainly find qualified candidates elsewhere, they’re potentially missing out on the warmest, most interested talent in their ATS.

With a hiring platform like Greenhouse, you can immediately improve the way you find talent, engage with candidates, and apply best practices across the organization. Keep reading to learn how you can make Greenhouse ATS even better.

‍And if you missed our last blog on managing inbound applications with Greenhouse, be sure to check it out.

What is candidate rediscovery?

Candidate rediscovery is the process of searching for talent in your ATS. This includes candidates in your existing network, from past and current applicants to employees and alumni.

While they may not have been a fit for a role when initially applying, they could be now. Candidate rediscovery taps into the pool of individuals who have expressed interest in a career at your company and are ready now for an open position. But a candidate’s skills, experiences, and situation are dynamic. Unless your ATS allows you to track these changes and effectively search your in network talent, you might be missing out on a valuable source of talent.

Common challenges of candidate rediscovery

• Finding talent in the ATS: Search in the ATS is based on what applicants put into the system. That data is limited, unverified, and may be out of date.
• Engaging with talent in the ATS: Because data in the ATS is limited, talent teams may not have up-to-date, verified contact information. Most ATS systems do not have multi-touch outreach campaign capabilities, which is key to getting a response.‍
• Understanding the ROI of hiring channels: Most ATS platforms offer limited analytics capabilities, making it difficult to see hiring channels are the best investment.

This creates a compounding problem for talent teams. On one hand, they miss ready-now talent because their latest skills, experiences, and qualifications are not available in the ATS. On the other hand, it’s time consuming to verify an applicant's information or update their qualifications. 

Faced with this dilemma of limited data or time consuming research, talent teams resort to sourcing cold candidates on LinkedIn or costly campaigns to drive new applications. While those channels can be effective, why start from scratch when you have ready candidates in your Greenhouse ATS?

Greenhouse ATS: How to conduct candidate rediscovery

According to G2, Greenhouse’s industry-leading ATS is a top choice for mid-market and enterprise companies. Its interface is easy to use and the ATS integrates with most talent acquisition tools. These integrations enhance Greenhouse’s capabilities, making it a powerful platform for candidate rediscovery.

Find qualified candidates in your ATS

Greenhouse makes it easy for talent teams to find qualified candidates, starting with the ability to post and promote open roles across more than 1,000 different job boards. When candidates apply to a job through any of these postings, Greenhouse automatically captures and stores contact information so recruiting teams can effectively send outreach.The platform also includes talent filtering, which uses advanced filters and smart keyword or skill suggestions to help teams narrow down lists from large pools of applicants.

Engaging with interested candidates in your ATS

With Greenhouse, talent teams can send branded, customized, and automated email and text notifications from their company’s domain. As they send outreach campaigns, recruiters can use Greenhouse to track and nurture prospect and candidate relationships over time. And going beyond email, recruiters can schedule social media posts for active and passive outreach, directly within the platform.

Implementing best practices to improve the ROI of your ATS

Out of the box, Greenhouse comes with more than 40 pre-built reports to help recruiters address stakeholder questions from across the organization. These reports are automatically updated to keep everyone in the loop, with insights into hiring goal progress, sourcing strategies, and recruiting analytics. With this data, talent teams can better collaborate with hiring managers, improve their own practices, and focus efforts on the channels with the greatest ROI.

Taking candidate rediscovery to the next level with Greenhouse + Findem

Greenhouse is a top choice for talent teams looking to find talent in their ATS, engage with candidates, and apply best practices across the organization. But it’s an even more powerful tool for candidate rediscovery when integrated with a platform like Findem.

Findem’s integration with Greenhouse enables talent teams to seamlessly access candidate information, improve collaboration, and view all applicant data without having to switch between platforms. This vision comes to life with Findem’s Copilot for Sourcing, which automatically generates search criteria from job descriptions when you open a requisition — starting with applicants in your ATS.

3D data in Findem’s platform enriches every profile in your ATS, and candidate details are updated constantly across both Findem’s Talent Data Cloud and the Greenhouse ATS. Using this 3D data, Findem automatically scores, ranks, and dispositions candidates and surfaces warm profiles from Greenhouse that match any search in Findem.

When you’re ready to reach out to an applicant from your ATS, Findem makes it easy to take action in a single click, with Greenhouse email templates available directly in the platform so you can quickly reach out to high priority prospects with verified contact information.

‍Analytics dashboards built into Findem help you move the needle on ROI, surfacing key insights into the performance of each sourcing channel in your hiring mix. Easily view the results of your outreach campaigns and track the success of Greenhouse ATS as a sourcing channel.

Rediscover candidates in your ATS today

When integrated with Findem, Greenhouse becomes a smarter, more effective tool for candidate rediscovery. 

3D data and AI in Findem’s Talent Data Cloud automatically enrich every applicant profile in your ATS, surfacing the warmest leads first for any open job requisition. Deep integrations with Greenhouse’s proven email templates ensure you’re putting candidate experience first, with the insights and analytics you need to make your ATS an effective hiring channel.

Explore our ATS integrations to learn how you can leverage Findem’s 3D data to make Greenhouse ATS an effective solution for candidate rediscovery.