05 Talent Acquisition
The date is March 2017. The place is Austin, Texas. The audience is on the edge of their seats waiting to hear the results. Who will win—the top sourcing experts or the algorithm?
The SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge is well known in the sourcing industry, but others outside the field might not be familiar with this competition. The contest was fairly straightforward: Download a folder containing three job descriptions, download a batch of 5,000 resumes, and examine the resumes to determine who was actually sourced, interviewed, and hired. In other words, contestants would review skills from the resumes and predict which of the individuals made it through an actual hiring process. Points were given in each case for selecting ...
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