TA Lab by Jackye Clayton
Practical recruiting tools
Free recruiting tools for the work in front of you: scan your hiring system, fix the intake, tighten the interview loop, check AI compliance, and plan the searches. No signup required.
Not sure which tool? Describe your challenge and I'll recommend one →Hiring Control Check
Five questions about decisions your team owns: intake, candidate delays, shortage versus bottleneck, interviews and leader visibility. No email required.
Leave with three first actions and the free tool that fits. A reflection aid, not a validated assessment.
Take the CheckTA Systems Scan
Rate six areas of your talent system and get a summary of your answers and a suggested starting point. No email required.
Review your self-ratings and a suggested first action, not a verified root cause.
Run the ScanIntake Shredder
Turn intake notes and job requirements into a recruiting search plan, a friction score and a Boolean starting point.
Leave with a search anchor, a friction score and a Boolean starting point.
Create My Intake PlanInterview Loop Builder
Get a draft interview design showing who assesses what, scorecards and a suggested schedule to review with your team.
Review a draft designed for no more than five interviews, with scorecards and possible redundancies.
Build My Interview LoopAI Hiring Compliance Audit
Answer questions about the AI in your recruiting process and get a plain-language audit of where legal and bias risk sits.
Leave with a risk summary you can share with counsel or leadership.
Audit My AI HiringExpand a Candidate Pool
Enter the title, must-haves, context, location and real nonnegotiables. Get alternative titles, adjacent backgrounds, places to source, requirements worth challenging and editable search strings, plus an optional five-day sourcing plan.
Leave with ways to widen the pool, searches you can run now and an optional five-day plan.
Expand My Candidate PoolDownload blank templateFix My Search
Paste your search, choose the platform and the problem. Get a corrected search you can copy, with one sentence on what was fixed.
Leave with a corrected search to copy and a syntax review. Results are not verified on the platform.
Fix My SearchTalent 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 TalentWhat If
Review degree, work model, experience and added must-haves for one role. Check contradictions before you take the requirements to market.
Leave with qualitative assumptions and a note for your hiring manager, not measured talent-pool data.
Try What IfRecruiter Load Balancer
Answer five questions and get a directional staffing estimate, your capacity gap and the tradeoffs.
Leave with a staffing estimate, your capacity gap and the tradeoffs.
Calculate Recruiter CapacityDownload blank templatePushback Builder
Create a professional response to unrealistic requirements, vague candidate feedback, shifting priorities and impossible timelines.
Leave with words you can copy and send.
Build My ResponseNot sure where to start
Start from the problem instead of the tool on the TA Lab home page: or, if you are the person hiring, go straight to the tools built for hiring managers.