Investment in The Coconut Industry by Nancy Cheruiyot
Source con atlanta-ppt-irina
1. The Dream Software
a New Generation of Sourcing Software Tools
Presenter: Irina Shamaeva,
Partner, Chief Sourcer, Brain Gain Recruiting
Founder, People Sourcing Certification Program
http://sourcingcertification.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva
http://twitter.com/braingain
Blog: http://booleanstrings.com
2. Outline
• Sourcing Methods Evolution
– The Easy Ways to Source: Job Boards
– Googling
– LinkedIn
• Candidates That Are Not Found
– Distributed Profiles
• The Dream Software Definition
– Cross-Referencing: Challenges
• Major Players: Overview
• LinkedIn’s Talent Pipeline, an Unexpected
Competitor
3. Disclaimer
• I am not affiliated with any of the tool
providers, job boards, or with LinkedIn
• Views are my own
4. The Easy Ways to Source: Job Boards; ATS
• Full information: resumes; contact info
• Structured data: parsed resumes
• Faceted search:
5. The Hard Way To Source: Googling
• Google searches for web pages based on the basic
web page elements: a title, a URL, images, phrases
• We are looking for professional profiles
• Translating from English to Googlean is hard…
• Also, Google can only access the surface data
6. LinkedIn, “the” Business Network
• 200MLN profiles
• Structured search
• But my neighbor Ellen, a super SAS-
programmer, a Ph.D, is not on LinkedIn
• LinkedIn profiles are not resumes; most have
insufficient data and lack keywords (example
on next slide)
7. Candidates That Are Not Found
on LinkedIn
• This is the candidate whose resume from
Indeed.com the hiring manager liked the best
9. Candidates That Are Not Found
• Even if we go to several different sites for
sourcing, we will not find some candidates:
– If different social profiles have different pieces
that, combined, pre-qualify a potential candidate,
then no single search on any of these sources
would select the person
• Example: the GitHub profile shows software
engineering skills but doesn’t have a location;
LinkedIn has the location but no keywords
10. Candidates Without Ways to Contact
• Additionally, on some sites, a profile may
pre-qualify a potential candidate, but there’s
no contact info and no messaging capacity
• Cross-referencing helps but may be labor-
intensive
• The ideal candidate
did not respond on Indeed
12. The Dream Software
The Dream Software would search for distributed
profiles. By a “distributed profile” I mean
professional information about a person
collected from many sources where she has
some presence, such as the evidence of her
skills, experience, location, current employer,
certifications, education, contact info, or any
other info.
– (posted in Nov 2011 on my blog http://booleanstrings.com )
14. 2/2013: Major Players: an Overview
• TalentBin
• Dice / theSocialCV
• Entelo
• Gild
• RemarkableHire
15. Terminology Variations
• Distributed Profiles - IS
• Implicit web resumes - TB
• Breadcrumbs - TB
• Digital Footprints - TB
– Communication Vectors - TB
• Aggregated social data - Entelo
• Web’s largest talent database – Entelo
– Communication channels - Entelo
16. The Dream Software,
a Universal Challenge: Ranking
• If we have a large number of distributed
profiles…
• …and can search by locations, skills, and
keywords…
– Great!
• But how should the search results be ranked?
• More generally, how does the tool provider stand
out from the crowd?
18. TalentBin
• Has a brand name
• Thoroughly covers software engineering
• Has been expanding to cover: patents;
medical publications; mailing archives
• Large indexed database
• Ranks skills, such as programming languages
– Based on the activity and the “influence” on
professional networks
• Uses a sophisticated skills taxonomy
19. Look where the candidates actually *are*!
Social Networks Software Engineering Specific
Design SpecificOther Professional Sources
Horizontal Professional Sources
Vertical Discipline Sources
Patents Mailing Lists Journals
24. TheSocialCV - 2011
• UK-based
• Searching is triggered
by social activity
• Strong “semantic”
component
• Ranking: Active online
25. Dice Open Web
• Continues theSocialCV lineage
• The User Interface is nicely integrated with
Dice’s
• Needs to expand the target population
coverage (currently 2MLN)
26.
27. Gild
• Software Engineers only
• Ranking: the code quality
– Gild analyzes publicly available software code
– Then, watches what engineers, who have written
lots of good code, do, and looks for others “like”
them
29. Dream Software vs. LinkedIn
• A BIG problem:
– LinkedIn is a “walled garden”
• LinkedIn is against its data being used in
volumes
– Even the public profile data
– Quote from a LI manager at a meeting: We do not
want to become Linked-Out
30. LinkedIn’s Talent Pipeline,
an Unexpected Competitor
• LinkedIn Recruiter has disabled export in Excel…
• However, LinkedIn now offers the Talent
Pipeline
– It’s not a CRM or an ATS
– It’s a way to import your data into LinkedIn and be
able to search across your data and the LI data
– Imported data is automatically cross-referenced with
member profiles
– Powerful!
32. Now What?
• Make your choices with your eyes open
• Neither LinkedIn Talent Pipeline nor Dream
Software products (nor Job Boards) cover
“everything”
– The Talent Pipeline and the Dream Software cover
different territories, all of them important
– Can be combined if you have the budget
– You can compensate for either by clever cross-
referencing if no budget
34. What’s Next?
• My wishes for the future
– Dream Software slows down on inventing ranking and
instead concentrates on reliable profiles’ merge and the
volume of the data collected
– Dream Software gives us control over the sort order
– Dream software prompts for ways for the user to reach
potential candidates, based on the users’ networks
– Dice prospers as a job board with a Dream add-on
– LinkedIn releases its public data to the public so that the
Dream Software has verified captured LinkedIn data
– LinkedIn allows export, not just import
– LinkedIn fixes bugs
35. Boolean Strings &
People Sourcing
• Blog http://booleanstrings.com
• Largest Sourcers’ Community:
– "Boolean Strings" Group on LinkedIn
– Boolean Strings Network
• People Sourcing Certifications
– http://sourcingcertification.com
• I am available for sourcing/research