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This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team

Summary


Recruiting is hard. We’re working to make it easier.We believe that identifying and sourcing the best talent is a critical function, and its difficulty is often underestimated. We understand that human connection is key and that AI can’t replace your role in sourcing. At SeekOut our mission is to build innovative tools that make you more efficient, more effective, and more successful. 

Massive Candidate pool

Access to all public profiles: Get access to 420M+ public profiles worldwide, plus 13M+ GitHub developers and the ability to search over 600M candidates on 37 social networks.

Rich, up-to-date profiles: Search candidates based on their complete, up-to-date public profiles — not just their current position.

Industry-leading search experience

AI-driven search relevance: Benefit from our experience working on one of the world’s largest search engines. Our algorithms are tuned for relevance to save you time.

Position Magnet:Find candidates that are a great match for your exact need by entering just your target company and title.

>20 Powerful filters: Narrow the candidate pool with a robust set of filters that include work history, location, education, keywords, skills, interests and more. You can even exclude results.

Advanced boolean queries: Feel free to bring the most complex boolean queries to SeekOut, or let our tool assist you in building complex searches with a simple point and click.

Powerful diversity features

Diversity filters: Ensure a more diverse pool of candidates using our diversity filters, including female, Hispanic, African American, veteran and country of origin.

Blind hiring mode: Remove unconscious bias while sourcing with Blind Hiring Mode, hiding the information that could reveal a candidate’s gender, race or ethnicity.

Diversity insights: Find where diverse candidates work, how many are available for your roles and how your company’s diversity hiring stacks up against the competition.

Advanced GitHub searchNew!

Enhanced profiles: Get a complete picture of each candidate’s skills and experience with SeekOut’s profile, which combines GitHub profile with contributions across all public repositories and work experience from other public profiles.

Power filters: Find candidates for common developer roles with one click using power filters that automate the creation of complex searches.

Programming language expertise: Understand each candidate’s overall proficiency and language expertise based on their contributions to public repositories.

Code examples: Get links to the candidate’s code that you can send to hiring managers to show skill level and use to personalize cold outreach.

Flexible people insights

Position insights: Learn about the backgrounds, skills, interests and education of the people in your target position to gain alignment with hiring managers and create smarter searches.

Company insights: Get a high-level view of the talent at any company to understand where and who they hire.

Market insights: Easily size the talent pool for specific skills or experience and understand where qualified candidates currently work.

Competitive insights: Learn which companies your competitors recruit from, which schools they recruit at and how their workforce compares to yours.

Access to verified contact information

1-click email addresses: Get access to personal and work email addresses with the click of a button. We scour the web to provide excellent coverage and accurate contact information.

Real-time email verification: Have confidence that the emails we provide are valid thanks to our real-time verification process.

Social Profiles: Use candidates social profiles and interests to create more engaging outreach emails.

Automated email campaigns: Create personalized email sequences to improve your response rates.

Tools to keep you organized

Projects: Save candidates into projects for specific roles to keep your sourcing organized. With projects, you can also get contact info or export candidates in bulk.

Saved searches: Avoid re-work by saving searches to projects, so you can apply all the same filters with a single click.

Candidate notes: Remember your thoughts about a candidate, add additional context to their profile and keep track of their status with private candidate notes.

Export your data: Take full candidate profiles with you in bulk so you can fit them into your existing workflow. Easily upload candidates to your ATS or CRM of choice.Our vision is to provide tools that lead the market in these areas:

  • Discovery - People search across multiple sources, surfacing great matches and fresh, diverse faces using AI and proprietary algorithms.
  • Outreach - Accurate contact information so you can connect with candidates where they will respond and tools to efficiently manage and track outreach.
  • Collaboration - Workflow and tools that enable better working relationships with hiring managers and other recruiters.
  • Recruiter Friendliness - Tools that fit into your existing workflows and work with your diverse client base (and their tools), with fair pricing and no commitments required.

Different solutions offered include:

  • Talent Sourcing
  • Diversity Hiring
  • People Insights
  • Github Sourcing


Technology Demo Notes


4.18.19 Call Notes

  • Start-up based in Seattle

  • Overview metrics (visuals)

    • Skills

    • Titles

    • Locations

    • Company Insights

  • Searches

    • Links to social networks

    • 60-80% of people

    • US only

    • 105 Million People

      • 30 million on Github

    • Canada will be available this year (2018)

    • Sources: LinkedIn public profiles is a majority; Resume sources;

    • Launched 4 weeks ago

    • Global

    • Collaborate on code

    • Not a recruiting platform

    • Rank based on contributions

    • Includes Seekout Code Sore & codes the candidate has written

      • Score is based on how many repositories they have contributed to; how many contributors are there; languages they have submitted

    • Location is a free text field in Github - This tech groups them for filters

    • Power filters

      • Pre-built queries for boolean

    • New feature

    • Google custom search engine - X-ray search

    • Public Profiles

    • Github

    • Social Networks

  • Diversity filters

    • Census Bureau

      • First 1000 first names

      • Last 1000 last names

    • African American

      • HBCU

      • Sororities & Fraternities

      • NSBE

      • Organizations

      • Probability in name/race correlation

    • Veteran

      • Fields & strengths

    • Names converted to initials

    • Anonymous images

    • Emails

    • Different algorithms per category

    • Blind hiring mode

  • Export feature

  • Not integrated with many ATS’

  • Pilot Requirements

    • Participated in demo or recording

    • Weekly feedback sessions

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