Dark Matter

How to Effectively Source Talent via Social Media & Networks

Tweet Sourcing talent via social media requires an entirely different mindset than sourcing with other forms of human capital data, such as resumes/CV’s, employee directories, conference attendee lists, etc. Back in early 2009, one of only 2 guest posts ever co-written on my site was published on the topic of non-standard descriptors and the role [...]

Best Practices, Dark Matter, Facebook, Google Plus, How-To's, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Recruiting, Sourcing, Sourcing Challenges, Twitter

Talent Sourcing: Man vs. AI/Black Box Semantic Search

Tweet Back in March 2010, I had the distinct honor of delivering the keynote presentation at SourceCon on the topic of resume search and match solutions claiming to use artificial intelligence in comparison with people using their natural intelligence for talent discovery and identification. Now that nearly 2 years has passed, and given that in [...]

Artificial Intelligence Matching, Boolean Logic, Dark Matter, Extended Boolean, Future of Sourcing and Recruiting, HCDIR, Human Capital Data, Information Retrieval, Recruiting Technology, Resume Sourcing, Search Automation, Semantic Search, Sourcing, Sourcing Automation

LinkedIn’s Dark Matter – Undiscovered Profiles

Tweet Sourcing has a fundamental problem: All searches return results. Yes, that is actually a problem. Why? Because everyone’s a winner. Type in a few keywords and BAM! – you get some good looking results. Hey, this sourcing stuff isn’t so hard! If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times – sourcing [...]

Dark Matter, LinkedIn