Semantic Search
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 [...]
Sourcing and Recruiting Resources Page
It’s been a long time coming, but I have finally gotten around to creating a resources page that essentially contains a “best of” compilation of Boolean Black Belt articles. It contains 10 “How-To” posts ranging from how to search Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, and Google for candidates, as well as articles on semantic search, Boolean, extended Boolean, [...]
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 [...]
Achieving Semantic Search without Proximity Operators
How sourcers and recruiters can achieve semantic search WITHOUT using Boolean proximity search operators such as NEAR
If you’ve read these 3 posts: Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters, Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters Round 2, and Semantic Search using the NEAR Operator, you already know I am a fan of leveraging semantic search for sourcing [...]
Semantic Search using the NEAR Boolean Operator
This post will cover graphic examples of how to achieve semantic search using the NEAR Boolean operator on Monster and on the Internet via Exalead using Accounting and Information Technology hiring profiles.
First, if you have not done so already, be sure to read these 2 posts that throroughly explain the concepts of user-defined semantic search for sourcing and [...]
Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters, Round 2
Looking at my blog stats, it appears I may have struck a nerve when I wrote a post on semantic search for sourcers and recruiters on Monday, December 29th, explaining the concepts of semantic search with regard to how it can be leveraged effectively by sourcers and recruiters.
I received several questions, comments, and inquiries for more information on the subject. If [...]
Semantic Search for Sourcers and Recruiters
On Tuesday, December 23, 2008 I wrote a “Tutorial Tuesday” post on www.recruitingblogs.com titled, “What is Semantic Search?,” explaining the concepts of semantic search with regard to how it can be leveraged effectively by sourcers and recruiters. Now, I am not sure if the fact that it was posted the day before Christmas eve had anything to do [...]
Extended Boolean: Proximity and Weighting
Most sourcing, recruiting, and staffing professionals are familiar with the “standard” Boolean operators of AND, OR, and NOT. However, I have found that few are familiar with “extended” Boolean functionality, such as proximity (or adjacency) and term weighting.
Beyond Basic Boolean
Extended Boolean offers sourcers and recruiters significantly more control, power and precision when executing searches, and [...]
