Sourcing AI: Ending Recruiters’ Myopia

I like spending time with recruiters and sourcers, watching them do their work. As the CEO of a sourcing AI company that automates much of the process, it is important to me to understand how these professionals think.?

Recruiters have mastered the manual recruitment process, so AI will only streamline that process insofar as it speaks to the ways they already search for candidates.??To create an effective?AI, we want to truly understand why recruiters select or pass over specific candidates.

After becoming very familiar with recruiters’ methods, I have noticed that despite their best efforts, they often miss many perfectly qualified candidates.?Here is why:

Manual Searches Are a Time-Suck

The common strategy to source talent is to run a search on platforms such as LinkedIn. While the search may turn up hundreds or thousands of profiles, there is no way to immediately tell how many of them are actually qualified for a given role. This is because Boolean search capabilities are still limited.

Oftentimes, recruiters must sift through the listings of profiles and manually select the ones they like. They may select only one out of 10 profiles, then change the search and select more candidates from a new list, until they have enough candidates to contact.

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