Adding Non-employees to talent pools?

Summary: Is it possible to add non-employees/contingent workers to a talent pool

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Looking for ideas to develop/add ability to include non-employees and /or contingent workers to talent pools and possibly succession plan.Or other ways to track POI's.( aka People of Interest in PeopleSoft)

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