Map talent pools and recruitment niches for hard-to-fill roles
Show TA teams and agencies how many qualified people exist, where they work and who competes for them.
- Free API key
- No credit card
- Run your sample
A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · plus other recruiting platforms
What it costs: Charged per request: credit pricing.
- People data feed
- Company data feed
- Job postings feed
- People search
- Data feed
- Feed licensee
- Staffing & recruiting
How the data flows
- talent pool size
- 120
- top employers
- Example Inc.
- competing open roles
- Head of Talent
- name
- Lee Sampler
- mobile
- +1 (312) 555-0107
- work email
- lee@example.com
Steps
- Count matching people in
people_feedby title, skills and location (or/person_role_search/totals/) - Group by current employer using
company_feed - Overlay competing demand from
job_postings_feed - Publish a market map with supply, demand and target employers
Inputs and outputs
| Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|
| role definition | talent pool size |
| geography | top employers |
competing open roles | |
market map |
Questions about this recipe
How can I estimate the size of the talent pool for a role in a city?
Count matching people in people_feed by title, skills and location (or /person_role_search/totals/). Group by current employer using company_feed.
What does it cost to map talent pools and recruitment niches for hard-to-fill roles?
People search: people search 1 credit per request and people search: role details 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. People data feed is a flat annual licence, global or regional, not priced in credits. Growth's 8,250 monthly credits cover 8,250 search requests, or a mix. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices
What do I need to run this recipe, and what comes back?
You send geography and role definition. You get back competing open roles, market map, talent pool size and top employers, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.
What is recruitment market mapping?
Show TA teams and agencies how many qualified people exist, where they work and who competes for them. TA teams set realistic hiring plans, find much wider pools and agencies break into new niches fast.
Is there a free way to try Forager on this workflow?
Yes. Request a sample extract of the people data feed on a 30-minute call and check the fields against your own records before you license it.
When should I run this workflow?
When a hard-to-fill role opens, or an agency evaluates entering a new niche. TA teams set realistic hiring plans, find much wider pools and agencies break into new niches fast.
Which Forager products does this recipe use?
People data feed, company data feed, job postings feed and people search. People data feed: a licensed file of 800M+ professional profiles, refreshed on a schedule and delivered to Snowflake or S3. Company data feed: a licensed file of 65M+ company profiles and firmographics, delivered to Snowflake or S3 on a schedule.
How do you check data quality?
The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.
How many candidates exist for a role?
Count matching people in people_feed by title, skills and location (or /person_role_search/totals/). Group by current employer using company_feed.
Which tools can run this workflow?
Native in Clay, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo, delivered as a data share to Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon S3 and called through the API from Google BigQuery and your own code. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.
How many steps is this workflow?
4 steps: count matching people in people_feed by title, skills and location (or /person_role_search/totals/), group by current employer using company_feed, overlay competing demand from job_postings_feed and publish a market map with supply, demand and target employers.
Is there a contract or minimum commitment?
No contract to start: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using Forager, choose a monthly or yearly plan. Monthly plans cancel anytime and unused credits roll over; yearly plans grant all credits upfront and cost 10% less. Larger volumes are agreed with our team.
Written answers are not available right now. The matching pages above still help, or book a demo and ask the team.
- $5 free credits
- No credit card
- Run your sample
A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · plus other recruiting platformsA selection of teams using Forager
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Clay - GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.
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Juicebox
- AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.
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SeekOut
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: Forager’s people data feed, used to keep candidate profiles current.
2–3 years on the Forager people data feed, by SeekOut’s own account1
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Velox
- Staffing firms
Technical staffing firm in the Netherlands.
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Intro
- AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
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MarketMapr - Talent intelligence
Selected use case: licensed people and company feeds that let recruiters map a whole niche.
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Martyn Bassett Associates - Staffing firms
Executive search firm for product, sales and marketing leaders at growth-stage software companies.
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SBR2TH - Staffing firms
Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.
Sources
1 SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.
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