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title: Using the Talent Pool
description: Keep promising people on hand even when they are not tied to a job yet.
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# Using the Talent Pool
## Keep promising people on hand even when they are not tied to a job yet.
Not every good candidate has a job to go into right away. The Talent Pool is where you keep people who are not attached to any job yet, so you can reach for them the moment a role opens up.
### All Candidates vs Talent Pool
At the top of the **Candidates** page there is a toggle:
- **All Candidates**: everyone who is tied to a job.
- **Talent Pool** (marked with a star icon): candidates who are not tied to any job.
Switch to **Talent Pool** whenever you want to browse people you are holding onto for the future rather than for a specific opening.
### Move a Talent Pool candidate into a job
When you are ready to bring someone from the Talent Pool into an active role, you have two ways to do it.
From the candidate profile:
1. Open the candidate.
2. Open the **"..."** menu.
3. Choose **Move to Position** and pick the job.
In bulk from the list:
1. Switch to **Talent Pool** and select one or more candidates.
2. In the bottom toolbar, open **More** and choose **Add to a job**.
3. Pick the job.
Either way, the candidate lands in the first stage of that job's pipeline, ready for you to move them forward.
### Tip
Great person, wrong timing? Keep them in the Talent Pool so they do not get lost. When a matching role opens, you can add them to it in a couple of clicks instead of starting from scratch.
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