The practice of searching an existing ATS or talent database to identify previously screened candidates who may now be a strong fit for new open roles — reducing time and cost of sourcing from scratch.
Candidate rediscovery uses AI to search an existing ATS database semantically — finding candidates whose profiles match a new job description even when the exact keywords differ — rather than requiring recruiters to remember and manually search for past applicants. In practice, organizations with 2 to 5 years of ATS data have a substantial warm candidate asset that is rarely utilized: past applicants who were strong but not quite the right fit for a previous role often become excellent matches for a subsequent one. The most common barrier is data quality: ATS records that were never properly tagged, have missing information, or have not been updated since the original application are difficult for any matching system to use effectively.
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