Providence Public School District (PPSD) made significant progress last year in ensuring that most classrooms were fully staffed by the start of the 2020-21 school year (see the previous brief in this series for more detail). Despite more positions to fill and higher-than-usual retirement numbers during the pandemic, PPSD hired earlier across the spring of 2020 and significantly reduced vacancies by the start of the school year. The district also hired more teachers of color -- a high-priority item given the large disparity between the racial/ethnic make-up of PPSD teachers and their students. Going forward, the district must contend with ongoing areas of challenge, particularly in filling open positions for English learner (EL), math, and science classrooms. Accelerated hiring timelines appeared to contribute to this year's success. However, continued progress in PPSD depends upon not only maintaining an early hiring process but also developing a large and qualified pool of candidates from which principals can choose. This brief looks at applicant recruitment. Specifically, it asks: To what extent does PPSD attract a sufficient pool of well-qualified applicants to its open positions and what can be done to improve the pool going forward? Using data from PPSD's application database and human resources system, the authors find that Providence attracts relatively few applicants for each open position, and the teachers who apply tend to be mostly white and mostly local. Despite the pandemic, the district made some modest improvements in 2020, but substantial changes will require a redoubling of efforts in 2021. As part of an ongoing research-practice partnership with PPSD and the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), the Center on the Study of Educators at the Annenberg Institute has been exploring teacher staffing in the state. The authors have combined rich datasets from several sources to better understand these processes. This is the second in a series of briefs describing the teacher workforce in Providence. The first described PPSD's successes and challenges in filling teacher vacancies before the start of the year. The next will explore teacher retention.