The profile that keeps itself up to date.
Job title, employer, contact details, discipline and industry of your candidates stay in line with the public profile, without anyone typing them in. On import too: a new database is completed in one go.
Your records did not change, everyone in them did.
Thousands of contacts, and not one of them tells you when something changes.
Of your 20,000 contacts, 3,340 changed employer this year. 1,900 moved to a different sector too, so your filters miss them entirely. You find out when someone else has already called.
DNB analysis of CBS microdata, 2011 to 2025
16.7 per cent of employees change employer each year, and 57 per cent of those also change sector. That is a national average across all employees. In flex and secondment the rate runs higher, so treat your number as the floor.
From a profile change to a record that is right
If something changes on the profile, it changes in your ATS too. Nothing more.
When it triggers: for all candidates, when a LinkedIn profile arrives, including the first one after import.
Profile data: compare the profile with what is stored. If name, job title, company, email, phone or social media URL no longer match, update only those fields with Keep profile data up to date. Job title and company come from the current position.
ATS record: retrieve the record and compare job title, company, contact details, discipline and industry. Update with Keep the candidate record up to date, in your ATS wording.
Profile comes in
On import and on every change. As soon as a social media profile arrives, including the very first one.
Compared with your ATS
Field by field. Job title, company, contact details, discipline and industry.
Filled in and corrected
What is missing is added. What differs is put right. Discipline and industry in your ATS wording. What is right stays as it is.
Done
The record is right. If everything was already correct on arrival, nothing changes.
Frequently asked questions.
Which fields it updates, what it never does, and whether GDPR allows it. Short answers, no small print.
Name, job title, company, email, phone and social media profile URL. On the ATS record also discipline and industry. Only the fields your ATS offers, nothing beyond.
By never inventing anything. Only what the profile supports gets written, and only the fields that differ. For discipline and industry the agent uses your ATS's own wording. If everything is already correct, it leaves the record alone.
On the record itself. And in the history, if your ATS keeps one. Daily Briefer counts the updated records in the morning email.
Then the new job title and company go on the record. Whether that move is also an opportunity is work for the Candidate Lead Detector. This agent only keeps the data current.
Yes. Spadework works within your own database, on people who are there with consent, and it is built and hosted in the EU. Nobody outside your own network enters the system. Nothing is pooled either. One agency's data never ends up with another.
No. Spadework has formal partnerships with OTYS, Carerix, Byner and Mysolution, and integrates with others including Bullhorn, Teamtailor and Yellowyard. If yours is not on the list, we look at it with you and get the integration built. Without an ATS you upload your contacts and receive your opportunities by email.
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