In today’s competitive job market, attracting and hiring top talent requires more than just a job description. It demands delivering a hiring process that is authentic, consistent, and standardized. To accomplish this, hiring leaders have taken a renewed interest in their talent tech stack. These investments have synthesized into an Enterprise Talent Tech Stack. A combination of technology platforms, harmonized processes, and usable data-driven insights that work together seamlessly. Hiring is no longer about a single tool; it’s about how your Applicant Tracking System (ATS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Talent Productivity platforms collaborate to elevate hiring impact.
Why a cohesive talent tech stack matters
Especially in growing industries or tough talent markets, enterprise hiring teams need a future-ready stack that boosts efficiency, enhances the candidate experience, and provides the foundation for today and tomorrow’s hiring impact. To achieve this, talent leaders are critically assessing their technology options, considering each platform’s distinct roles and how they interconnect.
Components of a high-performance tech stack
Datapeople: Your collaboration and optimization engine
Datapeople ensures your first candidate-facing experiences are optimized for your target talent. Posting clear and accessible job ads (not descriptions) secures a stronger applicant pool. Job content and hiring experiences are jointly optimized by TA and hiring managers. Authentic to your brand and aligned with hiring compliance standards (e.g., Pay Transparency) and job board requirements.
- Faster Writing: Use templates, refer to a historic job in your repository, or build anew with TA-trained AI.
- Harness Data: Leverage insights from more than 100M hiring data points, your own ATS, and competitors to craft better jobs and processes.
- Hiring and Brand Compliance: Ensure legal compliance and maintain brand voice while appealing to job boards.
Enterprise ATS (e.g., Workday, SuccessFactors, SmartRecruiters, iCIMIS): Your talent hub
Enterprise ATS platforms manage the talent acquisition process. They serve as a centralized hub for candidate data and workflows. As powerful as the ATS solutions have become, their depth belies a challenge for teams and team members looking to maximize their effectiveness.
- Centralized Data Management: A single source of truth for candidate and employee data.
- Process Standardization & Automation: Streamline tasks like application tracking, progression, and key activities such as interview scheduling.
- Scalability and Compliance: Support complex organizational structures and regulatory requirements
Talent Intelligence CRM (e.g., Phenom, Eightfold): Your talent experience engine
Talent Intelligence CRMs build a stronger relationship with current and future talent. They help you craft personalized and engaging experiences, tailoring content and interactions dynamically.
- Career Site Personalization: Dynamic career sites that adapt to individual candidates.
- Chatbots and Virtual Assistants: Real-time engagement and support for candidates.
- Candidate Relationship Management: Nurture relationships with personalized communication for current talent and those you aspire to secure in the future.
Synergies of the enterprise talent tech stack
The true power of your Talent Tech Stack lies in the synergistic effect of these components. When combined, they enable a seamless flow of data and insights, leading to greater efficiency and effectiveness.
- Datapeople + Enterprise ATS: Improve applicant quality and enhance efficiency by ensuring job ads and processes align with role requirements.
- Datapeople + Talent Intelligence CRM: Deliver authentic experiences and increase qualified talent profiles by creating clear and compelling job ads that secure target talent for CRMs to amplify.
The result? Hiring teams move faster, post effective jobs, and orchestrate a compelling candidate experience that builds connections for this role or one in the future. The Enterprise Talent Tech Stack transforms talent acquisition from a reactive function into a strategic driver of business success. It leads to:
- Increased Hiring Efficiency: Faster time-to-fill and reduced workload that promote human interaction, not process delivery.
- Elevated Candidate Experience: Positive and engaging interactions that build relationships, not applications.
- Improved Quality of Hire: The right candidates, for the right role, at the right time.
- Stronger Employer Brand: Elevate your reputation in the market, for this hire and those in the future.
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Even the most powerful recruiting technologies depend on the quality of the inputs they’re given. If your job posts are unclear, off-brand, or noncompliant, your ATS, CRM, or AI can’t fix that—it just scales the problem. The enterprise talent tech stack can solve that by aligning work and providing a means to action insights in a way that builds a harmonious hiring experience for TA teams, hiring managers, and the talent they aspire to hire.
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By investing in a holistic talent acquisition ecosystem, you can attract, engage, and hire top talent more effectively, driving business success. If you’re interested in speaking to someone who has made the journey themselves, let us know, and we’ll be happy to facilitate a discussion.