The Launch of thesocialCV.com

After 3 years in development and 6 months in private beta, thesocialCV.com launches today.  The product emerged from R&D conducted in early 2010 for a partner product we launched with Google. It makes use of sophisticated semantic tools to aggregate data contained within social profiles. The product currently contains more than 65 million candidate profiles and is indexing an additional 400,000 daily.

thesocialCV.com will be sold on a seat-license basis and at launch is partnering with leading global recruitment software providers and staffing firms that can put the product on more than 300,000 seats by year-end. "We've been overwhelmed by the commercial interest in the product,"  says sales director, Jonathan Cooney. "Our challenge has been identifying the right partners and locking down a commercial strategy."

In private beta, we worked with leading edge recruitment companies representing more than 35,000 staff to test the user experience, feature sets, and relevancy algorithms. Through tests with market and thought leader companies, thousands of tweaks were made to the product to address the unique challenges of recruitment professionals. "Live testing is a critical part of the product development and most critical when optimizing our search algorithms,"  says product manager, Katie Canton.  "Our new TalentRank algorithms and our semantic skills extraction processes, for example, were dramatically overhauled during our private beta."

The product will be integrated into the core platforms of global ATS and CRM providers. For leading ATS platforms, the product allows them to offer their clients:  

• Access to a talent pool of more than 65 million individuals globally.  Adding 400,000 daily.
• Ability to build custom talent pools and get notifications when candidates update profiles.
• Ability to update/refresh current CV database with real-time info.
• A 360 view of candidates to assess engagement and corporate fit.
• Access to TalentRank and semantic skills extraction CV search capabilities.

 WorkDigital Ltd has become a veritable incubator of semantic search products..  "It's an interesting technical challenge, and I'm sure we've got a long way to go to get it right," says thesocialCV CEO, Howard Lee.  "But when building a talent pool of more than 600 million individuals, we had to take a look at new approaches to building relevancy algorithms and faceted metadata search to meet the demanding needs of recruitment professionals."

In private beta, thesocialCV.com was the Winner of the 2011 Onrec Technical Innovation Award.

Click here and click here to read some pre-release product reviews.