What Is Your Total Addressable AEC Talent Pool?
Your total addressable AEC talent pool is the set of people who can actually do a specific job after you apply the real criteria: discipline, geography, licensure, experience, project background and other requirements. Knowing that number before recruiting starts changes how you set expectations, compensation, geography and outreach strategy.
Why is the real talent pool smaller than a search result?
A database may return hundreds of profiles, but many will fail one or more critical requirements. The real market is the intersection of all the criteria that actually matter to the role.
What criteria shrink the market fastest?
Licensure, jurisdiction, niche discipline, seniority, public-agency or sector experience, geographic radius and leadership expectations can reduce the pool dramatically.
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Bring AECIQ the roles your team is struggling to fill and see how the passive-market sourcing process works.
Book a 15–20 Minute DemoWhat does a small market look like?
AECIQ's brief gives an illustrative Orlando transportation-planning example where roughly 50 people fit the broad profile, about 40 are not partners or shareholders elsewhere, and about 15 match the exact project experience. The figures are illustrative, but they show why market sizing matters.
How does market size change recruiting strategy?
If the pool is tiny, the answer may be a broader geography, adjusted criteria, succession planning, earlier outreach or a different compensation strategy. A talent map gives leadership evidence before changing the job.
What does AECIQ know about its own record?
AECIQ has researched about 220,000 professionals, with coverage across all 50 U.S. states and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. Those numbers describe AECIQ's record, not the entire AEC workforce.
Launch your toughest searches
AECIQ works as an extension of your hiring team. You set the criteria and choose the prospects. AECIQ handles the research, verification and outreach, and interested candidates are handed directly to your firm.
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