TALENT COMMUNITY PLATFORM
Talent CRMs Collect Profiles. Untap Generates Proof.
Most "talent communities" are email lists with a branded skin. Untap is the platform where candidates prove their capabilities through real programs: hackathons, assessments, challenges, and learning paths. When a role opens, you pull from a pipeline built on demonstrated performance, not self-reported skills.
THE CHALLENGE
The Reactive Hiring Trap
Most organizations still hire the same way they did 20 years ago: a requisition opens, sourcing begins, the race starts. In a market where the average technical role takes 142 days to fill, reactive hiring isn't just slow. It's a strategic liability.
You Start From Zero Every Time
Every new requisition means a new search. No pipeline carries over. No relationship exists. You're competing for the same candidates as every other employer, with no head start.
Sourcing and Hiring Are Coupled
Your sourcing only begins when there's a job to fill. But the best talent isn't waiting for your posting. They've already been engaged by employers who built relationships early.
Resumes Don't Show Real Capability
You're screening CVs and conducting interviews to guess at competency. Meanwhile, you could be evaluating candidates through real work product; hackathons, coding challenges, case studies, and structured assessments.
Great Talent Disappears After Every Program
You ran a hackathon. You identified 50 outstanding candidates. The program ended, and you lost track of 48 of them. No follow-up engine. No community to keep them engaged.
How Untap Is Different
Not Another Talent CRM
Talent CRMs (Phenom, Beamery, Avature) build communities through passive collection: career site visits, event sign-ups, resume uploads, nurture email sequences. The "community" is a database with marketing automation on top. The candidate relationship is a funnel.
Untap builds communities through active engagement. Candidates participate in real programs that generate real signal about their capabilities. The community isn't a list of people who clicked "join." It's a ranked, scored, skill-verified talent pool built through demonstrated performance.
The most forward-thinking employers in the world have already shifted from posting jobs to building talent ecosystems. The question isn't whether your organization will make this shift. It's whether you'll lead it or catch up.
Alaa Selim
Director, Global Service Manager, Supply Chain Solutions, Global Business Services at P&G
"Untap has helped us do open innovation challenges. I highly recommend them for such programs. The flexibility to develop the solution, to develop the steps, the phases, where we needed to accelerate, and where we needed to extend. Untap has proven to be an amazing partner for this, so thank you for that."
THE UNTAP APPROACH
Your Talent Community Flywheel
Untap is the branded platform where your talent community lives. Unlike an ATS (which activates after a job opens) or LinkedIn (where you rent access to someone else's network), Untap lets you own the relationship from day one.
Each new initiative adds participants, data, and engagement. Your talent community becomes a compounding asset, not a cost that resets every quarter.
PROGRAM TYPES
One Platform. Every Type of Talent Initiative.
Hackathons & Innovation Challenges
Run technical and business challenges where candidates solve real problems. Identify top performers through work product, not interviews.
Skills Assessments
Deploy structured assessments with multiple question types, AI-powered auto-scoring, and customizable rubrics. Screen thousands in hours, not weeks.
Learning Paths & Courses
Offer free or gated learning content that upskills your pipeline while building affinity. Candidates learn your tools, methodologies, and culture before day one.
Hiring Challenges & Case Competitions
Run role-specific challenges where candidates complete tasks identical to the actual job. The ultimate "try before you hire."
Awards & Recognition Programs
Recognize top talent in your community through awards, certifications, and digital badges. Build prestige around your employer brand.
Mentorship & Development
Match community members with mentors from your organization. Deepen the relationship while assessing cultural and professional fit.
Run unlimited programs of any type. No per-program fees. No submission caps. No user limits. Your community grows without your costs growing.
THE PLATFORM
Built for Enterprise Talent Teams
Program-Powered Talent Intelligence
Every program generates data: scores, submissions, participation history, skill progression, engagement patterns. Your talent pipeline isn't a list of names. It's a living intelligence layer that gets richer with every initiative you run.
AI-Powered Screening
Automatically screen and score thousands of applications using preset AI criteria. Surface the best candidates instantly.
Structured Evaluation
Multi-criteria judging, panel management, blind review, weighted scoring, conflict detection. Your evaluation process, fully automated.
Integrated LMS & Mentorship
Deliver courses, manage mentor-mentee relationships, and track development, all within your talent community platform.
Your Brand, Your Domain
Your domain. Your brand. Your experience. Candidates see your organization, not ours. Launch in weeks with drag-and-drop customization.
Unlimited Scale
Unlimited programs, submissions, participants, and evaluators. Predictable pricing that doesn't penalize success.
THE BUSINESS CASE
The Cost of Not Building a Talent Community
$4,700
Average cost per hire
(SHRM)
142
Days to fill
Average time to fill a technical role
3.2:1
Demand vs. supply
Global AI talent demand vs. supply ratio
$2.8M
Annual cost
Average annual cost of delayed AI initiatives due to talent gaps
What does your organization spend annually on reactive hiring?
If you hire 100 technical roles per year at $4,700 per hire, that's $470,000, and that doesn't include the cost of bad hires (1.5-2x annual salary), lost productivity during 142-day vacancies, or recruiter time spent on candidates who ghost.
A talent community platform costs a fraction of one bad hire, and delivers a compounding pipeline that makes every subsequent hire faster, cheaper, and better qualified.
Ready to Build Your Talent Community?
See how Untap's Talent Community Platform maps to your organization's hiring challenges in a 15-minute walkthrough.