In a skills-constrained environment, a company’s ability to find, attract, and access the right professional DNA is critical to success. TalentBin by Monster not only automates and streamlines the talent discovery process via automated site monitoring, interpretation and matching, but also simplifies and automates the recruiting workflow, allowing recruiters do more in less time.
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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!
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Career Builders
The modern internet now lets us create professional profiles for everyone
These implicit web resumes are more valuable than explicit resumes
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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)
6. Candidate overload
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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.
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turns the entire professional
web into your recruiters’ sourcing database
Candidate Data
Search & CRM
8. Look where the candidates actually *are*!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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•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!
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• 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…
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TalentBin fill in the gaps that LinkedIn misses. And helps you find those engineers not on LinkedIn.
15. Their professional skills…
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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…
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See the actual activity the candidate has engaged in, and where, that demonstrates a given skills.
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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.
20. Other interests too…
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Check out their other interests, as well. Music? Outdoors? Cooking? Help build instant rapport when engaging.
21. And all available contact methods…
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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.
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Preview profiles before you deeply qualify them.
Search Terms
Results Count
Search Preview
Web Identities
Top Skills:
24. Powerful advanced search functionality.
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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!
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Even as you get very specific, skill-rich profiles mean you’re finding many more candidates than on LinkedIn.
26. Example Customer Pipeline Analysis
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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
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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.