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Tests prove that iPlace's search capability is second to none

August 24, 2007

Tests have shown that our resourcing tool, iPlace, returns an average of 4 times as many relevant candidates in its search results than traditional boolean search engines.

(Relevancy is based upon whether the candidate has the right skills and location plus is available/looking for work)

At our iPlace launch in March this year, Anil Vithani, Operations Director at Red Commerce, commented: "If Carlsberg did resourcing tools, iPlace would be it."

Godfrey Morrell, MD at Abraxas, also recently commented: "Thanks to SkillsMarket, our recruiters can now resource more jobs per day." 

iPlace’s search engine is a hybrid of the best search technology on the market, producing enough good candidates to send to a client on just one screen.

Research has shown that the average recruiter will review 750 CVs per placement made. Instead of having to sift through hundreds of irrelevant CVs that freetext searching alone can return, iPlace’s search engine combines the best of structured searching, freetext searching and artificial intelligence searching, known as fuzzy logic, to provide recruiters with significantly more accurate results within seconds.

• Structured searching uses the same search parameters as the candidate uses to define their skills, role, preferences etc in their iProfile. The results are therefore significantly more accurate. The iProfile dictionary, which is continually updated by SkillsMarket and candidates, has over 16,000 definitions and synonyms for candidates to accurately define their skills.
  
  
• Freetext searching allows you to word-match your requirements against the detail in the candidate’s CV using boolean search techniques.
  
  
• Fuzzy logic matching allows you to more accurately refine their requirements by searching on specific sections of the iProfile data. For example, it allows the pinpointing of all programme managers that have worked for a specific investment bank in the last three years.

To save recruiters time, iPlace allows you to perform a single search against a combination of sources. This includes your CV database, iProfile database, HotLists (pre-qualified candidates) and JobsInbox (job advert respondents).

It also allows you to exclude candidates you have previously qualified as not being suitable (e.g. they do not have a VISA for the UK) through the exclusion of NotLists in your search criteria.

To quickly identify the best candidates the search engine will also display the results list in order of relevance, based on a number of different parameters. These include scoring on iProfile work history, text matching, text hits, location, skills, hotlists, languages, availability and many other parameters.

You can also set up alerts on your searches to ensure you do not miss out on any suitable candidates who update their availability in their iProfile or register for the first time.

To find out more contact SkillsMarket's sales team on 020 7025 0555 or click here to email us.

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