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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
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
Disclaimer
• I am not affiliated with any of the tool
providers, job boards, or with LinkedIn
• Views are my own
The Easy Ways to Source: Job Boards; ATS
• Full information: resumes; contact info
• Structured data: parsed resumes
• Faceted search:
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
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)
Candidates That Are Not Found
on LinkedIn
• This is the candidate whose resume from
Indeed.com the hiring manager liked the best
Should We Search on Each Site??
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
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
Distributed Profiles
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 )
The Pioneers (2011)
2/2013: Major Players: an Overview
• TalentBin
• Dice / theSocialCV
• Entelo
• Gild
• RemarkableHire
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
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?
The Ranking Challenge
• Each of these tools has addressed ranking in its own
way
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
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
Mailing ListsPublicationsVerticalSocial
We convert digital footprints into profiles
TB Ranking: Skills
• Software engineering focus
• Pleasant User Interface
• Ranking: “is likely to make a move”
• Add-on named Sonar also watches companies
Entelo Ranking:
Recently Updated
TheSocialCV - 2011
• UK-based
• Searching is triggered
by social activity
• Strong “semantic”
component
• Ranking: Active online
Dice Open Web
• Continues theSocialCV lineage
• The User Interface is nicely integrated with
Dice’s
• Needs to expand the target population
coverage (currently 2MLN)
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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
Remarkable Hire
• Ranking: “Social Evidence”
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
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!
Example: Input & the Result
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
Learn To Cross-Reference
• Free tools
– Rapportive
– Falcon.io
– (many more)
– (happy
to talk offline)
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
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
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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
  • 8. Should We Search on Each Site??
  • 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?
  • 17. The Ranking Challenge • Each of these tools has addressed ranking in its own way
  • 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
  • 20. Mailing ListsPublicationsVerticalSocial We convert digital footprints into profiles
  • 22. • Software engineering focus • Pleasant User Interface • Ranking: “is likely to make a move” • Add-on named Sonar also watches companies
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 28. Remarkable Hire • Ranking: “Social Evidence”
  • 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!
  • 31. Example: Input & the Result
  • 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
  • 33. Learn To Cross-Reference • Free tools – Rapportive – Falcon.io – (many more) – (happy to talk offline)
  • 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
  • 37. Q&A

Editor's Notes

  • #21: Focus on different types of sources