It’s a proven fact that the recruiting industry is an age old industry vertical that has passed various iterations over the last 40+ years.  It is rather surprising that even with the advent of the technological penetration into every possible recruiting landscape my theory leads me to believe that recruiters in general seem to be recruiting by intuition. Let me explain what I mean.  I realized that this theory needs some sort of semi-scientific validation and hence started an informal survey of fellow recruiters (twenty three of them in total-corporate and agency-spread nationwide-with an average recruiting experience of 7 ...

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With the rapid advances of technology and the advent of Web 2.0 penetration into the fabric of every vertical known to mankind, it’s rather ironic that the Recruiting vertical hasn’t embraced Web Semantics as much for enhancing the overall productivity of the Recruiter. 

The traditional search parameters as we all know pulls us towards using key words to search databases (structured) and are in most instances one dimensional in their approach towards database queries.  Syntactic searching only yields results limited to Key words and thus limits “search” in general. 

Semantics when applied to Recruiting in particular can ...

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