Calibrating communities
Purpose
Define calibration attributes to surface the most relevant prospects and build your talent pool quickly
Overview
Sourcing teams lose time when communities pull in too many irrelevant prospects or miss the right ones entirely. Calibration solves this by translating your hiring intent into structured criteria the AI can act on, surfacing the strongest matches automatically and turning your community into a high-signal talent pool from day one.
Required Permissions
| Permission | What it allows |
| Calibrate My Community | Set or update calibration on communities you are a team member of. |
| Calibrate All Community | Set or update calibration on any community in the organization. |
| View My Community Calibration Log | View the history of calibration changes for communities you are a team member of. |
Before you begin
- Confirm the community has already been created and you have access to it.
- (Recommended) Have a few ideal prospects in mind, such as people you've hired, offered, or would hire again.
- (Recommended) Have a list of must-have skills, titles, locations, and experience criteria ready before you start.
Open the Calibrate Community Page
- Navigate to the Talent Communities page.
- Select the talent community that you'd like to calibrate.
- From the talent community's page, select Calibrate Community.
This brings up a calibration page where you can specify who you're looking for in your community.
Calibrate a community
There are two ways to start calibrating your community:
Copy calibration from similar community
On the right side of the calibration page, there's a Calibration Assistant section. To copy a calibration from another community:
- Type the name of the community in the search bar in the Calibration Assistant.
- Click the name of the community.
- Click Copy Calibration.
- Choose whether to add the copied calibration to your existing one or replace it, then click Confirm.
- (Optional) Make additional calibration changes as needed.
Calibrate without copying from another community
To calibrate without copying a calibration from another community, complete the calibration form fields as needed for your community.
Community Details
Job title: Add the job titles of prospects you'd like to include in your community. For each job title, select whether that title is preferred, required, or excludes prospects with that title from your community. Once you type in one title, Eightfold automatically suggests similar or related titles when you click + to add more.
Note: Many fields in the calibration form work the same way, allowing users to specify "preferred," "required," or "exclude," and then automatically suggesting related terms when you click + to add more items.Location: Add multiple locations where ideal prospects may be based.
Who's your ideal Prospect?
Your ideal prospect(s) could be someone you have hired before, given an offer to, or would hire in the future. For example, a top performer on your team who always meets deadlines, produces high-quality work, and is a great team player. Search that person by name or add the URL for their LinkedIn profile to add them as an ideal prospect.
Refine your Requirements
- Skills / Keywords: Add skills or keywords for prospects that you'd like in your community.
- Experience: List the companies, industries, seniority level, and years of experience the ideal prospects for your community might have.
- Education: List the schools ideal prospects may have attended, the level of education obtained, and the time range of when they attended the selected school(s).
- Advanced Options: Select location preferences, including whether relocation or remote work, or both, is allowed for the talent community's target position. You can also specify whether your calibration should exclude prospects who had short tenures in their three most recent positions.
- Calibration Notes: Add notes from your discovery of job requirements or intake meetings, the reasoning behind certain selections, or other relevant information. Click Save Notes once you've made changes to the Calibration Notes section.
Review and confirm
Once you have specified all the requirements for your community, click Confirm Calibration.
Tip: Each time you update a requirement within the calibration form, Eightfold uses that information to update the Sample Prospects in the Calibration Assistant. You'll also see the total number of matched prospects for your current calibration settings and the diversity of the matched prospects.
Expected outcome
- The Calibration Assistant reflects updated Total Matched Prospects, Diversity preview, and Sample Prospects.
- The community's Matched tab populates with prospects that fit the calibration, ready to be reviewed and added.