Talent Radar

What is Talent Radar

Talent Radar is a specialized recruiting and casting application within the ProMediaFlow platform, designed specifically for media industry productions including film, television, advertising, and digital media. It unifies employers, casting directors, production leads, and job candidates on a single platform to streamline hiring and staffing.

Talent Radar serves two distinct user journeys:

• For Employers and Productions: Post open positions, review candidate compatibility rankings with clear fit explanations, generate custom interview questions, and manage candidates through a visual hiring pipeline.
• For Candidates: Maintain a unified profile, import your resume automatically, complete a single guided interview, and automatically match against relevant open positions across the platform without repeating interviews for each job.

Vacancy Types

Vacancies fall into three distinct operational categories:

1. Organization (Company Hiring): Corporate and company-level staffing tied directly to an organization's brand.
2. Project Staffing: Crew and casting roles tied directly to a specific media production or project.
3. External Listings: Job opportunities aggregated from third-party websites across the web. Selecting an external listing redirects candidates to complete their application on the original source website.

The Hiring Pipeline

Applications progress sequentially through defined hiring pipeline stages:

$$\text{Applied} \longrightarrow \text{Shortlisted} \longrightarrow \text{Interview} \longrightarrow \text{Offer} \longrightarrow \text{Hired}$$

Applications can also be set to Rejected or Withdrawn status at any stage during the hiring process.

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Getting started

To begin using Talent Radar:

• As an Employer or Production Lead: Open Talent Radar and select the option to create a new job vacancy draft. Choose your vacancy scope—Organization, Project, or External Listing. Vacancies remain private drafts until published, after which they become searchable and open to applications.
• As a Candidate: Open your profile screen to set up your details. Upload an existing resume file or enter a LinkedIn URL to auto-populate your details, or fill out the profile sections manually. Once your profile completeness reaches at least 70%, you unlock the single guided interview required for platform-wide role matching.

Note: AI-powered automated features, such as smart resume parsing, consume platform credits.

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Key capabilities

Candidate Role Matches & Cross-Position Reusability

Once a candidate completes the single guided interview, their profile and assessment results become reusable across all open vacancies on the platform. Candidates do not need to take separate interviews for different job posts. The system automatically evaluates open positions against the candidate's profile, assessment fit, and logistical flexibility.

Matches generate a blended compatibility score based on three weighted factors:

• Skills Overlap: 50% weight
• Assessment Fit: 30% weight
• Flexibility (relocation, work preferences): 20% weight

Candidates receive personalized recommendations highlighting open positions where they are a strong match.

Recruiter Candidate Rankings

Employers and hiring managers can access a ranked list of candidates for any active vacancy. Candidates are ranked based on profession fit, physical location, remote work availability, and skill overlap with the job description. Clear match signals explain why each candidate is recommended.

Unified Candidate Profile & Smart CV Import

Candidates maintain a comprehensive profile containing their full name, phone number, city, profession, bio, skills, work history, education, language proficiencies, portfolio links, and compensation expectations.

To eliminate manual data entry, candidates can upload a resume file (PDF, Word/DOCX, or plain text up to 10 MB) or provide a LinkedIn URL. The smart resume importer processes the document and automatically populates the corresponding profile fields.

Role-Family Interview Templates & Custom Questions

Talent Radar includes seven default interview templates tailored to media industry role families:

• Creative-Craft
• Creative-Narrative
• Operations
• Technical
• Performer
• Sales/Business Development
• Support-Operational

Each template guides the candidate through 10 to 15 structured questions across six phases: warm-up, core capabilities, role-specific scenarios, personal drivers, personality inventories, and logistical practicalities.

Employers can extend or override default templates by creating custom interview questions tailored specifically to a job post. Custom questions can be created individually or generated in bulk batches.

Private Candidate Assessments

Upon completion of a candidate's guided interview, an internal candidate assessment report is automatically generated and attached to the hiring organization. This report includes:

• Personality Evaluation: Big Five personality scores derived from Likert questionnaire responses.
• Hidden Career Drivers: A ranked list of key career motivators.
• Departure-Reason Classification: Categorization of career moves (growth-seeking, escape-from, forced, or chronic-mover).
• Signals & Evaluation: Burnout signals, identified strengths, concerns, and red flags.

This assessment is restricted strictly to authorized employers, brand owners, and administrators. Candidates never see internal metrics and are only shown their derived strengths.

Equal-Opportunity & Legal Compliance

To maintain full compliance with equal-opportunity regulations across the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, California, and New York, demographic details and sensitive internal assessment analytics (such as Big Five trait metrics, hidden drivers, burnout signals, and red flags) are strictly sequestered internal operational signals. These metrics must not be used as a discriminating factor in any hiring decision.

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How to use it

For Candidates: Building Profiles & Applying

1. Import Your Resume: Open your profile screen, choose the CV import option, and upload your resume file (PDF, DOCX, or plain text up to 10 MB) or paste your LinkedIn URL.
2. Review Profile Completeness: Verify the populated work history, skills, languages, and contact details. Fill in missing details until your profile completeness reaches 70% or higher.
3. Complete the Guided Interview: Launch the guided interview from your profile screen. Answer the 10 to 15 structured questions covering your role family and complete the personality questionnaire.
4. Browse & Apply to Open Roles: Search for open positions across the platform.
   • For External Listings: Select the link to complete your application on the third-party job site.
   • For Platform Listings: Select the job post and submit your application along with GDPR consent. If applying while logged out, enter the 6-digit verification code sent to your email (valid for 15 minutes) to complete submission.
5. Track or Withdraw Applications: Monitor application status changes through the pipeline stages. If you need to retract an application, use the unique withdrawal token issued upon submission.

For Employers: Posting Jobs & Staffing

1. Create a Job Vacancy Draft: Select the option to create a new job post. Specify the title, seniority level, compensation period, and scope (Organization, Project, or External Listing).
2. Add Custom Interview Questions (Optional): Create bespoke interview questions for the vacancy individually or use bulk generation to set multiple questions at once.
3. Publish the Vacancy: Review the details and switch the status from Draft to Published to make the job searchable and open to candidate applications.
4. Review Candidate Rankings: Open active vacancies to view candidate rankings with match signals explaining applicant suitability.
5. Manage the Hiring Pipeline: Move candidates through the visual pipeline stages (Applied $\rightarrow$ Shortlisted $\rightarrow$ Interview $\rightarrow$ Offer $\rightarrow$ Hired) or update their status to Rejected or Withdrawn.

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Tips & notes

• Profile Completeness Threshold: You must reach at least 70% profile completeness before the single guided interview unlocks.
• Resume Upload Limits: Uploaded resume files (PDF, Word/DOCX, or plain text) must not exceed 10 MB.
• Application Spam Protection: Candidates are limited to a maximum of 5 applications per hour and 20 applications per day.
• Verification Code Expiration: Email verification codes for guest/unauthenticated applications expire after 15 minutes.
• AI Credit Usage: Automated AI features, including smart resume parsing, consume platform credits.
• Candidate Privacy: Internal personality traits, hidden drivers, burnout signals, and red flags remain completely hidden from candidates; candidates only view their identified strengths.