The profile is moving. You have the first conversation.
All work experience expanded, a new bio, a new photo: three changes in one week, while the job stays the same. Latent Candidate Detector spots it on the public profile and puts it in your feed as a lead.
Candidates update their social media profile before they apply.
You already knew this candidate. You just missed the signal.
All work experience expanded. A new bio. A new profile photo. Three changes in one week, while nothing about the job changes. That may point to latent job-seeking: someone open to something new updates the profile first. That happens weeks before the first application.
By the time someone calls themselves available, it is a conversation with competition. You call before the candidate applies.
From a polished profile to a lead in your feed
This agent compares the profile with the previous version and judges the changes together. One stray correction is nothing. A pattern is a lead.
When it triggers: for all candidates, when a social media profile arrives.
Filter: compare the profile with the previous version and judge the changes together. A single stray correction is not enough.
Signal: latent when the profile is being prepared, such as a new headline, certificates or work history. Explicit when the candidate says they are open. An ordinary job change never counts.
Action: on a lead, one post in your feed with Post candidate lead: what changed, latent or explicit, and one follow-up.
This is the configuration as it stands in Spadework. Same structure as every other agent.
Profile comes in
Public profile. Every new version of the profile of a candidate in your database.
Compared with the previous version
What is different. Headline, summary, skills, certificates, work history, next to the version before.
Weighing: pattern or stray correction
Judged together. Several changes in a short time weigh more than one. If the candidate says they are open, it is explicit.
One post in your feed
With follow-up. The concrete changes, the kind of signal and one recommended action for the recruiter.
A profile change is a sign, not a certainty. The post says what changed and what kind of signal it is. Without enough evidence there is no post.
Frequently asked questions.
What counts as a signal, how certain it is, and whether GDPR allows it. Short answers, no small print.
Two things. A profile that is deliberately being prepared, such as a rewritten headline, new certificates or a refreshed work history. And a candidate who says in the profile that they are open. One stray correction does not count.
By judging the changes together, not one by one. A single routine correction never creates a post. Tenure or an ordinary job change never count as a signal, and a completed move never does.
It is a sign, not a certainty. A latent signal means the profile is being prepared. Whether someone is really looking, you find out in the conversation. Only when the candidate says it in the profile themselves does the post call it explicit.
You see that on the record, not in the post. The agent only looks at the profile and reports what changed. Where the candidate works and whether you placed them there is in your ATS. Together with your agreements with that client, that decides what you do with the lead.
Nothing. The post only appears in your own feed.
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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