Artificial Intelligence Matching
Curious About My SourceCon Keynote?
Are you attending or thinking about attending SourceCon 2010 in San Diego in March?
I am going to be the keynote speaker for the event, and I will be presenting on Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Cognition when it comes to sourcing and matching resumes.
If you’re curious to know what kinds of things I’ll be addressing during [...]
The Two Levels of Candidate Sourcing
Many individuals and organizations treat the sourcing role and function of recruiting – searching for and identifying potential candidates – as an entry level position, and/or a simple and basic task that does not require much skill or experience.
I agree.
I believe that it does not take much skill or experience to simply transcribe job titles and required skill keywords into LinkedIn, Monster, [...]
Automated Semantic Search: Proceed with Caution
There are many software vendors who offer solutions to HR, recruiting, and sourcing organizations that claim to have automated candidate search and match capability. These applications can take your search, a job description, or an example resume and claim to leverage semantic search, fuzzy logic and/or Artificial Intelligence search technology to return relevant results.
I’ve had the opportunity to use [...]
Maximizing Your E-Sourcing Efforts
I define E-sourcing as leveraging information systems for active talent identification – searching the Internet, social media, job board resume databases, and applicant tracking systems to find candidates. The proper use of technology in the sourcing and recruiting process should increase your efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness. I’ve created the SlideShare presentation below to cover a number of [...]
Semantic Search for Recruiters: Manual vs. Automated
Semantic search has been a hot topic in Internet search for a number of years now and it continues to generate quite the buzz. For example, Google just recently rolled out semantic search capability. However, when I talk about semantic search, I’m not referring to the semantic web or “web 3.0.”
I’m not so excited about [...]
Artificial Intelligence Resume Matching vs. Human Cognition
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to evaluate several of the “big name” resume and job matching applications that claim to use artificial intelligence and I can say that the claim that they can find the same resumes that an “experienced recruiter” would choose is both accurate and inaccurate.
Photo: Scott Ingram Photography
From my [...]
