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Talent Mapping Template

A template to help create a talent map of the market for your role specific hiring.

You need a talent map.

A talent map is a strategic tool used to identify potential candidates for specific roles, and to understand the talent landscape in a particular industry or market. Use it as a proactive approach to help identify, engage, and nurture top talent even before specific job openings become available. Learn more

What is a Talent Map⁠

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Getting Started.

Before you start your talent map, you need a comprehensive role kick off (

see template⁠

) to understand the scope of the role, criteria, and ideal candidate skillset your team is looking to hire. With this information you have a list of keywords to help navigate - from job title, to must have and nice to haves for experience and skillset.

Track your market research & insights.

Talent Mapping is especially useful for senior and executive searches. There is a lot of market research, and networking & connections that needs to happen. Use this page to track your research and insights, and make sure you’re addressing the findings as you kick off a new role.

X Role Market Research

X Role Market Research

Companies

Available Pipeline

Skillset

Notes

Open

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Look for top profiles for your role.

Next your goal is to understand the current talent market, and to know where to look for the ideal candidate. Create a list of top 10-20 candidates in the space. Work with your hiring manager to identify the top 3-5 profiles, and their experience and skillset. What are the commonalities in either experience background or skillset? Use the information and keywords to find additional top profiles. Don’t worry about reaching out, you’re here to understand why they are the top profile of choice for the role you are hiring against.

Ideal candidates.

Ideal candidates.

Name

Profile Strength

Role Title

Company

Experience

School

Skill

Background

Keywords

Bob Belcher

Head Chef

Bob’s Burger

Grill, chef, meat, bread, produce

Culinary Institute of America

Burger of the day

burger restaurant

chef, burger, creativity, artisan

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Clear Idea Candidates

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Start your talent map.

Use this data to understand the traits and candidate profile - are there trends with schools or alumni programs? Membership in professional groups? A particular industry background? Based on your findings, you can create a talent map to target and source from the right places - ie. industries, company at specific stages, skillsets (tech stacks, tools), etc.

See more on how to

Set up Boolean Strings⁠

Talent Map

Talent Map

Source Type

Role

Institution

URL

Keywords

Boolean String

Number of profiles

Company

Chef

Bob’s Burger

Bob’s Burger Restaurant

“Bobs Burger”

School

Chef

Culinary Institute of America

Culinary Institute of America, CIA, CIA Restaurant

“Culinary institute of America” OR “CIA” OR “CIA Restaurant”

100

Role Title

Chef

Head Chef

Head chef

“Head chef” OR “Executive chef” AND “Restaurant” OR “Kitchen”

Skillset

Chef

Burger of the Day

Burger of the day, wordplay, pun, burger special

"Burger of the day" OR "burger special" AND wordplay OR pun

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Clear Talent Map

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Track your search progress

Track your searches to find the most effective ones, and save them for future reference.

Status

Effectiveness

Source

Culinary Institute of America

In Progress

Medium

Bob’s Burger

Completed

High

Google

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Clear Progress

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Stay on top of your outreach

As you find interesting profiles, add them to your list for outreach. Log notes from your outreach and track your engagement and nurture for future roles and opportunities.

Name

Source

Role

Status

Done

Notes

Louise Belcher

thehat@bobs.io

Bob’s Burger

Chef

Contacted

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