Comments - How to Organize the World's Largest Talent Pool? - RecruitingBlogs2024-03-28T18:33:15Zhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=502551%3ABlogPost%3A1166171&xn_auth=noSome great comments and feedb…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-24:502551:Comment:11686982011-03-24T16:32:46.723Zwilliam fischerhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/williamfischer
Some great comments and feedback.<br />
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Luke: We think expert sites with user-generated rankings will be critical in helping us to rank candidates - particularly those with common skills. We are currently using API data from several of the expert sites and have some of those rankings as part of our relevancy algorithm. Identifying the right proxies and weighting is really a challenge and we're constantly user testing different algorithms - here's a smart take from foursquare at some approaches to…
Some great comments and feedback.<br />
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Luke: We think expert sites with user-generated rankings will be critical in helping us to rank candidates - particularly those with common skills. We are currently using API data from several of the expert sites and have some of those rankings as part of our relevancy algorithm. Identifying the right proxies and weighting is really a challenge and we're constantly user testing different algorithms - here's a smart take from foursquare at some approaches to collaborative filtering and data challenges that we are grappling with: <a href="http://engineering.foursquare.com/2011/03/22/building-a-recommendation-engine-foursquare-style/" target="_blank">http://engineering.foursquare.com/2011/03/22/building-a-recommendation-engine-foursquare-style/</a> - Sounds like you've given this matter serious thought and it would be great to have a quick call to talk proxy data and algorithms. bill at thesocialcv.com<br />
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Sean: You're right that it won't be free and our challenge is to deliver a great ROI. If there's a trick, for example, to find 67,000 software developers with PHP and .net experience, have boolean and meta-data to sort/filter them, and half a dozen ways to connect with them in less than a minute, then.... Be happy to set up a web demo.<br />
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Henning: Agreed that skills matching is very important. Our challenge is that we're building a system with 600 million profiles. We perform the semantic skills extraction but routinely have thousands of search results that match the skills requirement (nobody likes going through hundreds of pages of search results) Simplicity is important but I think we need to build even more sophisticated tools to allow recruitment professionals find the best candidates quickly. That being said, we allow for complex boolean queries and have faceted search to also help whittle the search results. William, I bilieve customers…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-24:502551:Comment:11681182011-03-24T01:40:29.730ZHenning Seiphttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/HenningSeip
William, I bilieve customers would prefer an option to match all profiles against the job requirements and produce a ranked list. I am sure that would be a hit with everyone who does not know what a semantic search or social authority ranking is or who has no intent to learn advanced boolean logic. I do not believe that recruiters are looking for a magic machine. Simplicity is key to improve production.
William, I bilieve customers would prefer an option to match all profiles against the job requirements and produce a ranked list. I am sure that would be a hit with everyone who does not know what a semantic search or social authority ranking is or who has no intent to learn advanced boolean logic. I do not believe that recruiters are looking for a magic machine. Simplicity is key to improve production. Watch out for the milkey ways…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-23:502551:Comment:11674252011-03-23T15:01:43.798ZC. B. Stalling!!https://recruitingblogs.com/profile/ChrisStallings
Watch out for the milkey ways in the pool
Watch out for the milkey ways in the pool William - interesting proposa…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-23:502551:Comment:11669782011-03-23T14:10:05.079ZSean O'Donoghuehttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/SeanODonoghue232
<p>William - interesting proposal you have there in regards to what your company offers. You've not mentioned anything about pricing... what do you have in mind? I'm assuming it's not going to be free? Now if it were - you'd be on to something massive... if not... well, the profiles you are putting together can all be found on the web anyway right? You don't have their direct contact numbers, or email addresses - you simply find their twitter account or company contact details…</p>
<p>William - interesting proposal you have there in regards to what your company offers. You've not mentioned anything about pricing... what do you have in mind? I'm assuming it's not going to be free? Now if it were - you'd be on to something massive... if not... well, the profiles you are putting together can all be found on the web anyway right? You don't have their direct contact numbers, or email addresses - you simply find their twitter account or company contact details right?</p>
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<p>I may have some bits wrong - but please take this as nothing more than constructive critisism! I just want to try and understand you service a bit better so we can make a call on whether it's something we as a group (the business I run), would be interested in.</p> Be my guest! :-)tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-23:502551:Comment:11673122011-03-23T09:08:41.347ZAlasdair Murrayhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/AlasdairMurray
Be my guest! :-)
Be my guest! :-) Alasdair..that is the funnies…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-23:502551:Comment:11672472011-03-23T08:49:14.372ZSandra McCartthttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/SandraMcCartt
Alasdair..that is the funniest comment I have heard in weeks may I plagiarize?
Alasdair..that is the funniest comment I have heard in weeks may I plagiarize? As I just tweeted, a talent p…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-23:502551:Comment:11674012011-03-23T08:32:21.508ZAlasdair Murrayhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/AlasdairMurray
As I just tweeted, a talent pool is like a swimming pool. Anyone can get in it, but you don't know who the good swimmers are and who's just peeing in the water<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="actions"><br />
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As I just tweeted, a talent pool is like a swimming pool. Anyone can get in it, but you don't know who the good swimmers are and who's just peeing in the water<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="actions"><br />
</span> </span></span> This was a good interview wit…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-23:502551:Comment:11669602011-03-23T03:32:12.958ZSlouchhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/Slouch
This was a good <a href="http://wisemansay.co.uk/2011/03/future-recruitment-wise-man-speaks-bill-fischer-cofounder-director-social-cv/" target="_blank">interview</a> with you William.
This was a good <a href="http://wisemansay.co.uk/2011/03/future-recruitment-wise-man-speaks-bill-fischer-cofounder-director-social-cv/" target="_blank">interview</a> with you William. Agreed. We show the latest T…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-22:502551:Comment:11661812011-03-22T17:20:27.279Zwilliam fischerhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/williamfischer
Agreed. We show the latest Tweets, blog posts, and music preferences which can help at the individual level see if there is personality fit. The key is building a system that downgrades, or upgrades, profiles if they exhibit poor taste in entertainment.
Agreed. We show the latest Tweets, blog posts, and music preferences which can help at the individual level see if there is personality fit. The key is building a system that downgrades, or upgrades, profiles if they exhibit poor taste in entertainment. If only we could solve the Pe…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-03-22:502551:Comment:11664762011-03-22T16:21:48.334ZPaul Alfredhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/PaulAlfred
If only we could solve the Personality equation that Human to Human ... Solve that and you have yourself a Killer Portal ...
If only we could solve the Personality equation that Human to Human ... Solve that and you have yourself a Killer Portal ...