CareerBuilder acquires stake in Textkernel

Last week, CareerBuilder acquired a majority stake in Textkernel, a Dutch-based outfit providing semantic recruitment technology to the HR space. More information can be found here – why would an already well-trafficked job board want to improve search results? Semantic search tools are a step forward in providing more accurate

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How confident are you in your parsing solution?

How confident are you in your parsing solution? There are a few different ways that software can parse a resume. Some parsers use key words to determine what section of the resume is under review. For example, it may use date ranges to determine if it’s working on an employment

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Making Sense of Your “Big Data”

I am sure most of you have heard the term Big Data. In general, Big Data includes loads of information generated by organizations, and individuals. Big Data is characterized by large amounts of unstructured data coming from many sources. For many of our clients this data might be garnered in

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Thank You

HireAbility was recently in Las Vegas for the HR Technology Conference held at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center earlier this month. This event is always a great time and we had the opportunity to talk with many fantastic people and organizations. Thank you again to everyone that took time to

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A Horse of a Different Color…HireAbility supports Chinese

HireAbility supports Chinese 2014 is the year of the horse based on the Chinese zodiac. While this tidbit has nothing to do with resume parsing the contents of this blog certainly do. ALEX, our world-class resume/CV and job order parsing software now speaks Chinese! Chinese is the 15th language supported

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Westward Bound

Westward Bound HireAbility will be in Las Vegas again this year at the HR Technology Conference held at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center October 8th and 9th. We will be located at booth #2624. The conference last year in Vegas was fantastic and we are very excited to get out

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ALEX Central Launched!

ALEX Central Launched! We at HireAbility.com are always looking to make things easier for our clients. We are pleased to announce the launch of ALEX Central. Some key features include: • Quickly check your parsing stats • Request new features • Add terms and skills to your custom dictionary •

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How Resume Parsing Differs from Data Extraction (KeyWord Searching) Or There’s More to the Resume than Meets the Eye (If it’s been Parsed)

At some point, the volume of resumes received by an organization exceeds its ability to manually process them effectively. The cost of cutting and pasting information manually from a resume into an applicant tracking system (ATS) far exceeds the cost of: a) storing the resume in some consistent format hopefully

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Job Skills

Job Skills Job skills are constantly evolving, and resume parsing companies have to evolve with them. What’s behind new skills creation? There are several factors involved. A few of the more common: Technology: The rapidly changing world of technology in which we live has a dramatic impact on the skills

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ALEX Supports New HR-XML JSON Lightweight Recruiting Standard

ALEX Supports New HR-XML JSON Lightweight Recruiting Standard We, at HireAbility, are always striving to provide our clients with the latest technology options to best meet their resume/CV and job order parsing needs. With more recruitment technologies becoming available on mobile devices, the demand for a lighter weight communication protocol

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