EdGE Networks developed an AI-powered talent platform to alleviate search friction for job seekers and employers. They analyzed 3.9 million job descriptions and 22 million profiles to build an 800,000 skill database. The platform started with a search and matching feature for their first customer, Wipro, and has since expanded to 4 service lines with over 15 features. EdGE Networks reinvests in innovation through a data science lab and pipeline to continuously improve the platform using deep neural networks.
3. Challenge meets opportunity
Challenge:
“What if my next potential candidate
lies in the piles of discarded
resumes?”
Opportunity:
Machine Learning with its
ability to emulate human brain
Eureka!!!
Machine Learning based platform that would
alleviate search friction for people and jobs
4. Demanding yet fulfilling journey
Disparate
data
Legacy
systems Talent
shortage
Market
apprehension Machine
learning curve
5. Demanding yet fulfilling journey
Wipro as
anchor
customer
1 feature:
Search &
Match 3.9 million JDs
and 22 million
profiles
analyzed
800,000 skills
DB
4 service lines
with over 15
features
6. Platform
It’s a relay: Service to Product to Platform
Productization of
service
Services model
Design Thinking Approach
10. Auto-sourcing
Search &
Match
Business
rules
JD & Profile
analysis
iJD Social Search
Simplification
Profile
builder DMS
Career
Planner
Talent Analytics
Simplification through AI
Domain
Expertise
Data
Science
11. CEO CIO
TA Specialist RMG
The new world of work: Enabled by AI
CHRO
Employee
Course
Training
Project
The primary driving force for most new inventions is a need. Major inventions and discoveries are all a result of necessities of human life and the desire of human to make the world a better place. Be it cave man inventing fire, Edison the light bulb, Wright brothers created the flying machine, small pox vaccine by Jenner – there are millions of such inventions led by dire need. Necessity compels man to exercise his power.
Likewise EdGE Networks’ Search and Match algorithm which forms the core even today was an outcome of the need to satisfy a lacuna. During my first venture (a digital learning platform), I was often haunted by a question while recruiting talent, “What if my next potential candidate lies in the piles of discarded resumes?” That is also when I realized that there is a great opportunity for us to utilize this explosion of computing. In other words, artificial intelligence. Machine learning algorithms using NLP can emulate the human brain by reading and understanding millions of JDs and resumes in a second. We have built a neural network of skills and jobs that will learn and grow over time using our source-validate-connect algorithms with NLP. Our weighted search-and-match mechanism scores candidates, ranks them, and brings up the most relevant profiles from multiple databases. This enables hiring managers with intelligence that helps them make hirirng decisions.
Driving to build a product now deep learning and machine learning
However, the journey was laden with many speed breakers. Some of the challenges from the customer are data, integration with legacy systems which slow your platform down and apprehension about an AI platform which is mainly due to lack of awareness. Additionally, as a start-up, talent shortage especially in data science which is the core and the other is the initial teething problems in the algorithms as they go through their learning curve which gets fixed in time.
While it was demanding, what makes it all worth while is the milestones that you achieve at short intervals – they are gratifying. Our biggest win was getting Wipro in as our first customer – they were our anchor, we built most of our core product during the initial deployment at Wipro. It was a steep learning curve for us people and for our algorithms. From having 1 feature in 2013 which was Search and Match, today, we have 4 full-fledged product with 15 features which makes us an end-to-end talent management platform.