How to Build Your Life Science Talent Pool
Summary
Building and maintaining a high-quality talent pool is a proactive way of streamlining your hiring process, as it ensures you’re continuously nurturing top talent even when you’re not actively hiring, ultimately supporting your long-term recruitment strategy. When done successfully, it can also help you to stay ahead of your competition, as you’ll be building long-term relationships with passive as well as active talent, staying ahead of your organisation’s hiring needs.- Author Company: PharmiWeb.Jobs
- Author Name: Lucy Walters
- Author Email: Lucy.Walters@pharmiweb.com
- Author Website: https://www.pharmiweb.jobs/
What is a Talent Pool?
A talent pool is a database of professionals who have either expressed an interest in working for you or been identified by your team as someone possessing the experience, qualifications, or skills that are typically in demand at your organisation. Your talent pool could include:
- Current employees
- Former employees
- Employee referrals
- Unsuccessful candidates
- Previously sourced candidates
- Students and future graduates
- Passive jobseekers
- Active jobseekers, and more
Building and maintaining a high-quality talent pool is a proactive way of streamlining your hiring process, as it ensures you’re continuously nurturing top talent even when you’re not actively hiring, ultimately supporting your long-term recruitment strategy. When done successfully, it can also help you to stay ahead of your competition, as you’ll be building long-term relationships with passive as well as active talent, staying ahead of your organisation’s hiring needs.
In this article, we look at the key benefits of actively growing your pool of Life Science talent and provide practical advice on how to achieve this.
