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Employers and employees (Score:2)
I've heard the candidate pool as a competition between companies: the employer that is better able to attract quality talent in the appropriate quantity is better able to succeed where competitors fail. Paul Graham [paulgraham.com] is the most recent thinker to espouse these ideas, but I know they go back a ways (I've seen cites back to the 70s, with one at my fingertips at the moment).