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    Who owns TalentDrive? follow this discussion

    product question resume sourcing talentdrive
    started 17 days ago by

    I have been doing some resume aggregator shopping lately and was looking at several products. I've found a lot of information on the forums helpful in helping to whittle down my choices, but I came across some information that kinda surprised me and I'm wondering if I'm hearing this correctly.

    I've had one of my sourcers look at the TalentDrive product and I have one major concern. I heard that John Chuang (who also owns a staffing firm) is on the board of directors and part owner of the company. I'm all for diversifying business, but doesn't that give them a bit of an unfair advantage? If I'm trying to maintain my competitive edge, I'm not sure I want to give a competitor access to my clients and my data while I'm using their product to run my searches.


    Has anyone else heard this???

     

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    • 2 points 17 days ago

      Steve,

      I am the Vice President of Partnerships at TalentDrive and I promise you that all of our clients data is distinct, separate, confidential and secure. It would be a serious breach of our clients Agreements to share candidate data (resumes). We are very proud to have John Chuang on our board and as an investor. He has a non-controlling interest and is not a majority shareholder.

      I am surprised that you would make a public statement without having the facts. I also was not able to locate you in LinkedIn so that we could connect.  Please send me your email or phone so we can discuss your concerns.  Feel free to call me directly if you would like to discuss further 312.676.2181.

      Rob Bialk

    • 1 point 16 days ago

      I am not sure about who owns it - but if its true, that's not cool.

      I do know some of TalentDrive's searches can take up to 4 to 5 hours to complete.  If you have to run 3 searches, on one position, it can take you over a day to get your resumes. Plus when you select a resume it can takes over a minute for the resume to open.

      I just found the waiting to be frustrating....I have been using Talenthook and find the searches to be much much faster. 

      Dave
      Silicon Valley

    • -1 points 12 days ago

      Our office has Our officehas been using TalentHook for two years now and recently decided to try our luck with TalentDrive. It was clear to see after testing it out for a week that it wasn't in the same league as TalentHook. The searches were incredibly slow (when it did work) and I had similar issues when trying to open individual resumes. Additionally on the few searches that actually did run they somehow exhausted our Dice quota for the entire month. Needless to say after giving it a try we decided to make the leap back to TalentHook.