How do you Organize the World's Largest Talent Pool?

We have no idea.

We've been going through tens of thousands of search results and testing several relevancy algorithms and we're not getting any closer.  As thesocialCV.com is building more than 600 million profiles, it's kind of important. So we're going to let the customer decide.

Let us know, what do you prefer?

• Faceted Search
• Advanced Boolean Queries
• Semantic Skills Extraction and Matching
• Social Authority Rankings
• Job Title Match
• Click-Thru Data from Live Searches
• User Generated Ratings
• Career Path Match
• SocialGraph
• or other approaches, we're happy to make them all available but we need your help.

Here's an example of one relevancy system we've developed, TalentRank.  

We know there must be other, maybe better, approaches. The key is to turn that gut instinct a recruiter has when they scan a CV (their blink response) and turn it into an algorithm that can automatically find the best candidates. What's more important: Job Title or Skills relevancy? The quality of the company or the quality of the education? Professional engagement or are they an engaging professional? There are hundreds of dimensions that can be used to evaluate a CV.

We need to find a way to turn the analog gut feel to binary.

Here are some reviews and a discussion of the TalentRank system from live, pre-launch, demos of the product:

The Future of Recruitment? by Wise Man Say

Breaking the Mould? by James Mayes