UnCommon

Owned by Jakub Mormul (Unlicensed)
Jan 11, 2019
3 min read



This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team.

Summary


We're on a mission to deliver life-changing opportunities

Uncommon was created by veteran entrepreneurs with extensive experience building technologies that eliminate inefficiencies. We're on a mission to deliver life changing opportunities by removing obstacles that stifle employment prospects, to help people and businesses grow. Powered by programmatic technology, Uncommon is the industry's only platform that automatically sources, screens and delivers applicants that meet all your custom requirements.

Uncommon serves customers across all industries and job types, providing them with instant access to candidates that meet or exceed their specific job requirements, so they spend less time sourcing and more time hiring.


Uncommon delivers only qualified candidates that meet your job’s custom qualifications, sourced programmatically across all your active and passive channels.


Discover a fresh pool of talent.

Tap into a diverse database of 150M+ profiles, drawn from beyond the usual sources for resume data, updated weekly.


Enjoy higher response rates.

Reach out with confidence knowing that our screening has produced granular-level matches, guaranteed to increase candidate response rates.


Control at your fingertips.

Seeing the wrong candidates? Instantly fine-tune your search results with our easy-to-use job qualification editor.


Uncommon is the only platform that shows you how each candidate stacks up to your qualifications in a side-by-side comparison.


Maximize candidate reach.

Connect your job feed and gain access to a pool of passive candidates, hundreds of pre-integrated job boards, search engines and social platforms, all with the click of a button.


Screen accurately

Set your custom job requirements and our AI candidate screening technology will analyze education, experience, and a mix of hard and soft skills to filter applicants that directly satisfy your criteria.


Find the right talent in the shortest amount of time.

Select your qualifications and Uncommon will automatically determine the potential number of qualified applicants in that region, all in real-time.


Get real-time reporting

See everything from cost per qualified applicant to source efficiency, all in a single, dynamic dashboard


Technology Demo Notes


Call Notes 11.29.2018 

  • Evolving product over past month - Beta release available

  • Leverage machine learning in search - word association (understand common speak)

  • Match with qualifications or a job with new candidates

  • Strengths:

    • Founders come from programmatic job advertising

    • Screening resumes

    • Locating difficult to locate talent

  • Passive vs. active talent is noted

    • Passive

      • From database

      • Contact information is cleaned and scrubbed every quarter

      • Data was purchased from a co-op of HRIS and real estate

      • They own the data

      • They piece together information found in the database with social media pages to mock-up a visual resume

      • Looking to greater leverage qualifications

      • Can view their compilation OR route to LI page

    • Active - Job advertisement; less cost effective right now; shows source

  • What contact info is present?

    • Some emails are not working → discovering → correcting

    • Not many phone numbers

    • 70% have contact information

    • Filter available

    • 10% response rate through their messaging

      • Can set campaigns

  • Surfacing new candidates (claim)

  • Start a new search

    • Can search/filter by: Job title, skills, certifications, education, industry, average job duration

      • October this feature was released, messaging features released a couple weeks ago

    • Position & Location

      • Up to 3000 miles spread

    • Suggested job experience, but we can clarify

    • And / Or : Yes

    • “Not”: coming soon

    • Multiple cities: coming soon

    • Default 30 miles - can lower and raise at will

  • Ranking: Thumbs up, Thumbs down

  • 2019:

    • Tool that can find candidates and activate them

    • Greater automation on returning qualified candidates

    • US only; Intent to expand (late 2019)

  • Set up under client email addresses

  • Only work with outlook email right now

    • No google integration - in their approval process, will keep me updated

  • Trial Parameters

    • 2-week trial traditionally

    • Beta through Dec 4