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AI Outbound Talent Search runs a live sourcing search outside your ATS. You give Nova a role, Nova searches the web, evaluates candidates, and builds a ranked shortlist while you watch.

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What you can do

  • Start a search from a job with criteria, or paste a job description directly
  • Watch the session as Nova researches the market, searches, and scores candidates
  • Review a live shortlist with fit labels, summaries, and supporting evidence
  • Control team usage with per-user search quotas

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What a session looks like

Each session has 2 moving parts:
  • The activity feed shows what the agent is doing right now
  • The shortlist fills in as candidates are found and evaluated
If a role is ambiguous, Nova may ask follow-up questions before it searches. That usually improves title targeting, company selection, and seniority calibration.

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Add people you already know

Paste a LinkedIn link in the chat, or give a name and company, and ask Nova to add or assess the person. Nova scores them against your hiring brief and puts them on Shortlisted or Maybe: tell it which, or it will ask. From their card you can reveal contact details or send them to your ATS. A few ways to ask:
  • “How do you evaluate this applicant? linkedin.com/in/…” Nova gives the score and the main gap, then asks which list.
  • “Add her to my shortlist: linkedin.com/in/…” She goes straight onto Shortlisted.
  • “Find Priya Shah at Northwind Robotics and put her in Maybe.” Nova tells you the title and company it matched so you can check it’s the right person. If several people match, you pick.
  • Paste two or three links and ask “What do you think of these?” Nova scores them all and asks once where they go.
If someone is already in your search, Nova tells you where they are instead of adding them twice. In searches that use only your ATS, Nova looks names up in your ATS and asks for a link if it can’t find them.

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Usage limits

Outbound Search uses your company’s configured search allowance. Recurring allowances reset on the company usage calendar, which can differ from invoice dates. A trial allowance covers a fixed total number of searches. Some teams split their recurring allowance into per-user quotas so each recruiter gets their own allocation. See product access and allowances.
Per-user quotas are configured from the Team page. Recruiters only see their own usage.