The EU Talent Pool should aim to support participating Member States to address existing and future labour and skills shortages via the recruitment of third-country nationals to the extent that the activation of the domestic workforce and intra-EU mobility are not sufficient to achieve that objective. As a voluntary tool to facilitate international recruitment, the EU Talent Pool should offer additional support at Union level to interested Member States. To that end, complementarity and interoperability of the EU Talent Pool IT platform (the IT Platform) with existing Union and national initiatives and platforms should be ensured. The specific needs of Member States should be taken into account in the development of the EU Talent Pool in order to ensure the widest participation possible. Hence, talent is an all-encompassing term referring to the entire range of skills and competences that might be needed on the labour markets of different Member States.
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