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Your best candidate for a new role may have already applied to an old one. Talent Rediscovery searches every candidate who has ever applied to any of your team’s job openings and ranks them against the role you are hiring for now. Open it from the sidebar under ATS → Talent Rediscovery.
Talent Rediscovery is available on the Elite plan. Searching and ranking your past candidates does not consume any credits.

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How Rediscovery Works

1

Open Talent Rediscovery

In the sidebar, go to ATS → Talent Rediscovery.
2

Set your criteria

Click Upload a Job Description and paste the JD so Equip can extract criteria, or set a skill filter above the results.
3

Review the ranked results

Once a skills filter is set, each candidate receives a relevance score.
4

Open a candidate's detail panel

Click a candidate to see their application history across all your openings.
Talent Rediscovery empty state headed Rediscover Your Talent Pool, noting how many past candidates the team has, with an Upload a Job Description button

Talent Rediscovery before a search, with the size of your past candidate pool

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Scoring Weights

Once a skills filter is set, every candidate is scored on three components, and you control how much each one counts. The weights always sum to 100. You edit Skills and Experience, and Recency takes whatever remains.
Scoring Weights panel expanded, showing Skills at 50 percent, Experience at 30 percent, and an auto-balanced Recency at 20 percent, with a reset link

Skills, Experience and Recency weights always total 100

Lower the Experience weight so Recency rises, and recent applicants float to the top.
Hover over a relevance score to see its per-component breakdown.

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How Experience Is Estimated

Candidates keep gaining experience after they apply, so Talent Rediscovery ages their numbers forward. Total experience grows by the time elapsed since the candidate applied, and per-skill years grow proportionally to that same time.
Aged figures are estimates, not facts. A candidate may have switched stacks or taken a break since applying. The results show both the aged and the original values, so always confirm current experience with the candidate before making decisions.

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Exporting Results

You can export the results to work with them outside Equip.
Export a rediscovery run before opening a new role to build a warm longlist for your hiring manager.
  • Candidate Search - Look up a specific candidate by name or email across all activity
  • Job Fit Score - How Equip ranks active applicants within a single job opening
  • Candidate Profile - What lives in a candidate’s detail panel and journey
  • Bulk CV Import - Grow your talent pool by importing up to 100 CVs at once