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Kalent is the sourcing tool that connects to Blue Octopus. Search 200 million profiles in plain language, reach candidates on LinkedIn, email and WhatsApp, and push qualified people straight into Blue Octopus.
What it changes
Blue Octopus is a UK recruitment platform combining an ATS, employer branding and services, used by British employers who want the process handled locally. Its coverage is deliberately UK-shaped, which becomes a limit the day a role has to be filled from further afield.
Kalent searches 200 million profiles in plain language and returns a qualified shortlist, without hours of Boolean strings on LinkedIn.
Kalent retrieves on average 80% of mobile numbers and 60% of personal emails on each sourced profile. Every candidate pushed is ready to be contacted.
Qualified candidates appear in your pipeline under the rules you define. Nothing is copied by hand, nothing lives in a spreadsheet.
Setup
API key or OAuth, depending on your Blue Octopus configuration.
Complementarity
Two situations
Some skills simply do not have enough people in the UK market. Kalent searches Europe and the US in the same query, so the shortlist stops being limited by geography before it is limited by fit.
Reaching a hundred candidates by email alone leaves most of them unread. Kalent runs the first touch across LinkedIn, email and WhatsApp, and only the people who replied reach Blue Octopus.
Yes. Blue Octopus is listed in the Kalent integrations menu. The connection is set up from Settings, Integrations, by API key or OAuth, with no technical work.
From your Kalent workspace, go to Settings then Integrations, select Blue Octopus, authenticate, then choose which candidates are pushed and into which stage.
Yes. Kalent attaches a verified mobile number and personal email to each sourced profile before pushing it.
Yes. Kalent is a French company, holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report and publishes 47 monitored controls in a public trust center. Any candidate can request deletion at kalent.ai/opt-out.
Time on finding the right profiles. The Kalent agent widens the search beyond what you managed to put into words, applies qualification criteria rather than filters, then ranks profiles and writes the reason for each match next to it. You read twenty ranked profiles instead of sifting five hundred. And they land in Blue Octopus with a verified mobile number and personal email, ready to contact.