Talent Lab by Jackye Clayton
Practical recruiting tools
The search isn’t working. The hiring manager wants a unicorn. Feedback is “I’ll know it when I see it.”
You’ve got work to do. Pick the problem, get something you can use, and keep moving.
Free tools. No email required.
Intake Shredder
Turn intake notes and job requirements into a clear recruiting search plan, Boolean starting point, and hiring-manager alignment check.
Leave with a search anchor, a friction score and a Boolean starting point.
Create My Intake PlanExpand a Candidate Pool
Get new sourcing channels, talent pools, target companies, and recruiting ideas based on the role, industry, and location.
Leave with new talent pools, searches to run now and an optional five-day sourcing plan.
Build My Sourcing StrategyFix My Search
Paste the search, pick LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn, Google X-ray or your ATS, and say what is wrong.
Leave with a corrected search to copy and one sentence on what was fixed.
Fix My SearchRecruiter Load Balancer
Calculate how many recruiters your hiring plan requires and identify workload, staffing gaps, and hiring tradeoffs.
Leave with a staffing estimate, your capacity gap and the tradeoffs.
Calculate Recruiter CapacityPushback Builder
Create a professional response to unrealistic requirements, vague candidate feedback, shifting priorities, and impossible hiring timelines.
Leave with words you can copy and send.
Build My ResponseInterview Loop Builder
Choose who actually needs to interview, assign what each person owns, and build the entire interview process in one business week.
Leave with a five-interview maximum loop, scorecards and the interviews you can cut.
Build My Interview LoopTalent Map
Get suggested sourcing channels and talent pools based on the role, industry and location, with reasons to investigate each.
Leave with suggested places to investigate, not verified current market data.
Map This TalentDiagnostic layer
The TA Systems Scan looks across six areas of your hiring system to help separate a one-off problem from a repeated pattern or constraint.
Run the TA Systems ScanFor TA leaders
Check whether a hiring plan is deliverable, calculate recruiter capacity and workload, build the case for the business, and see the Talent Lab Systems Sprint.
Go to the TA leader toolsTalent Lab for Teams
Move from fixing individual searches to deciding what the recruiting system needs next.
Explore help for teams →Tools directory
Prefer the full list? Every tool on one page, plus free downloadable templates.
See all Talent Lab tools →UK and US teams
Need help applying these tools across a real hiring plan, candidate market, or recruiting team?
See remote recruiting support →Why Jackye
My background includes leading talent acquisition and DEIB at Textio. My recent work includes teaching practical AI at the YOU × AI Summit, speaking about HR leadership at the Heart of Texas SHRM Conference, and presenting on human brand and leadership at TalentNet Live Austin.
I’ve also contributed my perspective to LinkedIn’s Future of Recruiting report and written for Fast Company about job requirements. My focus is inclusive hiring systems that are practical, measurable, and built into the work—not treated as a separate program.
That’s the perspective behind Talent Lab: understand the problem, question the assumptions, and give people something useful to do next.
2026 · YOU × AI Summit
“From Pizza Prompt to Practical AI”
2026 · TalentNet Live Austin
“Human Brand in an AI World,” with John Baldino, and “What Leaders Still Get Wrong”
2025 · Heart of Texas SHRM Conference (chapter conference)
“No Cape, No Problem: How to Lead HR When You’re Out of Time, Support, and Patience”
2025 · LinkedIn’s Future of Recruiting
Expert commentary on AI adoption and human oversight
2024 · Fast Company
Authored practical guidance on job descriptions, core competencies, potential, and inclusive language