Find the 'Unfindable' with TalentBin by Monster!
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A survey reveals that 50% of Indian employers find it challenging to hire qualified technology talent, with 68% reporting difficulties in sourcing niche skills. The document discusses the limitations of traditional job portals and highlights a tool called Talentbin, which utilizes implicit online profiles to track and assess candidates' skills across various platforms. Talentbin claims to enhance recruitment efficiency by providing a comprehensive view of candidates, including their interests and online presence, leading to higher response rates compared to traditional methods.
Find the 'Unfindable' with TalentBin by Monster!
- 1. Monster.com Survey • 1 in 2 employers in India struggle to hire relevant technology talent • 1/3rd employers rely on job portals to find the right talent • 68% of the respondents feel it is extremely difficult or at least difficult to hire talent for niche skills (technology) • 55% of the respondents said their recruitment department needs 5 – 10 man hours to hire a technology professional
- 2. How to find the ‘unfindable’? Here’s the tool that helps you find the right tech talent!
- 3. Technical Recruiting Rocket Fuel
- 4. 4 Career Builders The modern internet now lets us create professional profiles for everyone These implicit web resumes are more valuable than explicit resumes 1995 2003 2006 2008 Job Seekers Web resumes (everyone) More Candidates: Does not require active candidates (job seeking / career building) Higher Quality Data: More recent (daily updates) and more complete (skill and fit)
- 5. Talent bits, everywhere. 5 People leave "Talent Bits" that tell us their interests and what skills they possess.
- 6. Candidate overload 6 Bad: InMails are ignored / auto-filed. Worse: InMails are turned off. Worst: Candidate nukes his profile. Recruiter Survey: Engineers get 15 InMails / week. < 5% response. 130k’s a Crowd: 20k+ LinkedIn corporate customers. 130k Recruiter seats. The candidates who are discoverable are inundated with InMails, with undesirable outcomes.
- 7. 7 turns the entire professional web into your recruiters’ sourcing database Candidate Data Search & CRM
- 8. Look where the candidates actually *are*! 8 Social Networks Software Engineering Specific Design SpecificOther Professional Sources Horizontal Professional Sources Vertical Discipline Sources Patents Mailing Lists Journals But these engineers are online, leaving professional information about themselves across the web.
- 9. 9 TalentBin crawls the broadest set of general sites. Publications General Events Creative Facebook: Professional interests and resume. Twitter: Professional Bio, Tweets, Lists, Followership. Google Plus: Professional interests and resume. Quora: Q&A for professional and non-professional topics. About.me: Personal bios and social profiles. Slideshare: Professional presentations. Lanyrd: Professional conference attendance community. Meetup: Professional and non- professional meetup and user group attendance. Behance: Professional community for designers, UI, UX, art direction, etc. MobyGames: Directory of Credits for all video game contributors Dribbble: Professional community for designers, UI, UX, art direction. PubMed: Directory of scholarly bio papers (biostats, bioinformatics, biochem, etc.). US Patent Database: Patents and listed inventors and companies. Carbonmade: Professional designers, UI, UX portfolios. Coroflot: Professional designers, UI, UX portfolios Krop: Professional designers, UI, UX portfolios Forrst: Professional designers, UI, UX portfolios.
- 10. 10 And the most software engineering sites. Mailing Lists Github: Social Coding. SourceForge: Open source communities. Bitbucket: Social Coding. Kaggle: Data Science competitions. Ohloh: Open source contribution tracking. Grokbase: Software email list serve tracking. Working With Rails: Rails coder directory. RubyGems: Ruby Gem Contributor Tracker TapFame: Mobile developer directory. Apache Foundation: Open source list serves. Ruby.org: Email list serves. Stack Overflow: Q&A for Software engineers. Server Fault: Q&A for DevOps. Ask Ubuntu: Q&A for DevOps. Programmers: Theoretical Q&A software engineers Unix / Linux: Q&A for Unix & Linux Users Database Administrators: Q&A for DBAs InfoSec: Q&A for information security Software QA: Q&A for QA people. Code Review: Q&A for Code Review. Game Dev: Q&A for Game Developers. Django People: Community for Python Programmers. And 100s of other software engineering email list serves.
- 11. 11 Mailing ListsPublicationsSocial We convert these talent bits into profiles 1. Extract professional activity 2. Analyze and score activity to surface skills and interests 3. Aggregate together all available contact vectors (email address, Twitter, etc.) Full 360-degree view of candidate EventsVertical
- 12. 12 •NET •Agile Development •Android •Back End •Big Data •Build Tools •C++ •Cloud Technologies •Clojure •Continuous Integration Software •Databases •Event-driven Programming •Flash •Front End •Gaming •Graph Databases •Graphic Design •Graphics Libraries •Groovy •HTML5 •iOS •Java •Java Frameworks •Javascript •Mac OS X •Mobile •MVC •MySQL •NoSQL •Object-Oriented Programming Languages •Objective-C •Perl •PHP •Python •Release Tools •Ruby •Ruby on Rails •Scala •SCM Tools •SQL •Swift •Test Automation •Version Control •Virtualization •Windows TalentBin is awesome for anything software and creative related, but below are some particularly good examples! Technologies where TalentBin is awesome!
- 13. 13 • Adobe Creative Suite • After Effects • Animator • Art Direction • Art Director • Brand Development • Brand Identity • Coreldraw • Digital Art • Digital Illustration • Drawplus • Final Cut • Fireworks • Graphic Art • Graphic Artist • Graphic Design • Graphic Designer • Identity Design • Illustration • Illustrator • Indesign • Lightroom • Logo Design • Photo Editing • Photoshop • Quarkxpress • Retouching • Typography • User Interface Design • User Experience Design • Visual Design • Visual Designer • Web Design TalentBin is awesome for anything software and creative related, but below are some particularly good examples! Creative, too!
- 14. And you’ll find their full professional web footprint… 14 TalentBin fill in the gaps that LinkedIn misses. And helps you find those engineers not on LinkedIn.
- 15. Their professional skills… 15 See a ranked list of a candidate’s technical skills, based on the intensity of that activity, all across the web.
- 16. And where those skills are demonstrated… 16 See the actual activity the candidate has engaged in, and where, that demonstrates a given skills.
- 17. 17 TalentBin Interest Scoring TalentBin assigns an interest intensity score to each professional skill, based on the discovered activity. Each type of activity has its own weighting, based on source and action context, with some being weighted more heavily than others, accordingly.
- 18. And search across all those skills! 18
- 19. Portfolio and Publications too! 19
- 20. Other interests too… 20 Check out their other interests, as well. Music? Outdoors? Cooking? Help build instant rapport when engaging.
- 21. And all available contact methods… 21 5x the response rate of InMail using email, Twitter, Facebook, and other contact methods. Send as many messages you need, without limitation, and across a variety of methods. 1. Millions of personal email addresses 2. Social communication channels where candidates actually hang out. 3. Research team to sniff out emails not yet discovered. ~70% hit rate. Personal emails Request their email from our concierge if one is not available on profile Social Communication Vectors
- 22. Happier purple squirrel hunting… Find candidates other recruiting organizations can’t find. Get a full, 360 candidate view to qualify and start the conversation. Reach out using all available communication vectors, that candidates actually respond to. Stay on top of the candidates you find with pipeline management, tasks, and automation.
- 23. Holistic overview in search results. 23 Preview profiles before you deeply qualify them. Search Terms Results Count Search Preview Web Identities Top Skills:
- 24. Powerful advanced search functionality. 24 Be as specific as you need, and drill your search down to find the best of the best. Powerful Visual Boolean Search “AND” Clauses Tech term synonyms with “Query Expansion”
- 25. Narrow your search without losing results! 25 Even as you get very specific, skill-rich profiles mean you’re finding many more candidates than on LinkedIn.
- 26. Example Customer Pipeline Analysis 26 100 Targeted Emails Sent 60 Opens 27 replies 10 phone screens 1 hire Ecommerce Recruiting Organization • ~ 20 hours of sourcing + outreach • 60 engagements • 27 replies = 15 positive. 12 “not now” (but keep me posted) • 10 phone screens > 1 hire • 12 pipelined candidates • 1 incremental tech hire Targeted Outreach and Follow Up Puts Butts in Seats
- 27. Targeted Outreach Case Study 27 Personal email addresses, professional activity, and personal interests make a profitable combination. 60 minutes of work drove one in-process candidate, one future fee, a referral partner, and one missed fee because of slow adoption.