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Understand, measure and wake up your talent pool.

Sourced guides on talent pools, ATS, recruitment law and the tools on the market, written for recruitment teams and their DPOs.

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Talent pool

The dormant talent pool: the gold mine nobody works

Why most already-evaluated candidates are never called back, and what this dormant talent pool costs recruitment teams in agencies, IT services firms, and companies.

8 minRead

Recruitment law

How long can you keep a candidate's data?

Rejected, hired, unsolicited CV, interview recording: CNIL recommended retention periods for candidate data, when they start and what to do at expiry.

8 minRead

Talent pool

Wake up the candidates you have already assessed.

Talent pool

ATS data entry: 5 rules to find your candidates again

One location entered two different ways is enough to drop profiles from every search. Five data entry rules for a talent pool you can find again.

5 minRead

Talent pool

Talent pool: definition and how to run one

What a talent pool (candidate pool) is, where profiles come from, which fields to keep current, CNIL rules, reactivation and the metrics that show it works.

8 minRead

Talent pool

Reactivating a candidate pool: the 5-step method

How to move from a dormant ATS pool to a candidate base reused from one role to the next. An operational method, no big technical overhaul required.

8 minRead

Talent pool

The dormant talent pool: the gold mine nobody works

Why most already-evaluated candidates are never called back, and what this dormant talent pool costs recruitment teams in agencies, IT services firms, and companies.

8 minRead

AI Act & GDPR

Recruit with compliant, explainable AI.

AI Act & GDPR

The AI Act and recruitment: what the law requires, and from when

Recruitment classed as high-risk, obligations postponed to 2 December 2027, human oversight, DPIA: what the AI Act changes for recruitment teams and their DPOs.

10 minRead

Hub & ATS

Connect your HR tools without replacing everything.

Hub & ATS

Recruitment audit: start with your ATS data

A recruitment audit runs on figures. Before reading them, check what your ATS data can measure. A four-step method and a checklist.

7 minRead

Hub & ATS

The ATS-connected HR Hub: connect instead of replace

What an ATS-connected HR Hub is, and why connecting your tools beats replacing your ATS. Read flows, write flows and two-way candidate profile enrichment.

10 minRead

Method & metrics

Measure what matters in recruitment.

Method & metrics

The recruitment metrics that matter, and how to measure them

Time to fill, cost per hire, source, quality of hire and talent-pool reuse: the five metrics to steer a recruitment agency or IT firm, and their formulas.

11 minRead

Sovereignty

Candidate data hosted in France.

Sovereignty

Candidate data sovereignty: beyond "hosted in France"

What sovereignty means to a DPO beyond server location: CLOUD Act, GDPR chapter V, Schrems II, SecNumCloud, and the sub-processor contract.

11 minRead

Comparisons

Choose your tools with eyes wide open.

Comparisons

Metaview alternatives for a French recruitment team

Hirify, Noota, Leexi and BrightHire compared with Metaview: ideal profile, strengths, limits, hosting and public pricing. Sourced facts, September 2026.

7 minRead

Comparisons

Hirify or Claap for recruitment interviews?

Claap records and summarizes sales team meetings, Hirify connects to recruiters' ATS. Integrations, evaluation, hosting and pricing compared.

6 minRead

Comparisons

Hirify or Tactiq to transcribe your recruitment interviews?

Tactiq transcribes browser video calls for the whole company. Hirify turns each interview into data for your ATS and talent pool. Sourced comparison.

6 minRead

Comparisons

Noota alternatives for recruitment: what to look at in 2026

A fair comparison of Noota alternatives for recruitment: hosting, scoring, internal talent pool and public pricing, with sourced facts dated June 6, 2026.

11 minRead

Comparisons

Where does your recruitment interview data go?

Hosting, cloud provider jurisdiction, AI subprocessors: a checklist for DPOs and a sourced comparison of nine interview transcription tools.

13 minRead

Comparisons

Hirify vs Metaview: hosting, AI sub-processors and pricing

Metaview hosts on AWS in the UK and lists its AI sub-processors in a Trust Center. How it compares with Hirify on hosting, language, ATS and public prices.

8 minRead

Comparisons

Hirify or Noota for a recruitment agency?

Two tools that capture and structure the interview, three differences in approach: scoring, hosting per product, internal talent pool versus external sourcing.

9 minRead

Comparisons

Interview report software: choosing well for recruitment

A guide to choosing interview report software for recruitment: three families of tools, five criteria that set them apart, and a sourced comparison table.

14 minRead

Comparisons

Fireflies, tl;dv, Otter: meeting notetakers up against recruitment interviews

Your sales team already has a notetaker. Is it enough for recruitment interviews? What these tools do well, and where they stop.

10 minRead

Comparisons

Otter in French for recruitment: what works, what is missing

Otter has transcribed French since October 2024, but the interface stays in English and hosting is in the United States. What a French recruiter should check.

8 minRead

Recruitment law

GDPR, CNIL and the AI Act, in short, sourced answers.

Recruitment law

Can a candidate ask to see their interview notes?

Notes, scorecards, reports, recordings: what a candidate can obtain under Article 15 GDPR, the one-month deadline and what you may redact.

8 minRead

Recruitment law

How long can you keep a candidate's data?

Rejected, hired, unsolicited CV, interview recording: CNIL recommended retention periods for candidate data, when they start and what to do at expiry.

8 minRead

Recruitment law

Can you keep a candidate in your talent pool and contact them later?

Legal basis, candidate information, the 2-year period, recontact, agency or employer: what the CNIL recommends for keeping a talent pool under GDPR.

9 minRead

Recruitment law

What must you tell a candidate before a recorded or AI-analysed interview?

What candidates must be told before an interview is recorded or analysed by AI, under the GDPR and the French Labour Code, with sample wording.

8 minRead

Recruitment law

Can you record a job interview? GDPR and CNIL rules

Yes, a recruiter can record a job interview if the candidate is told beforehand and can say no. Legal basis, wording to use, retention periods and AI transcription.

9 minRead