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ALEX Résumé Parser

HireAbility’s ALEX Resume and CV Parser offers unequaled accuracy and speed while converting resumes and CVs into XML or JSON output. ALEX is multilingual, fully configurable and secure. Integration is simple and easy. Complete documentation is offered online.

ALEX is a powerful tool that provides valuable data to populate candidate databases and aid in searching, matching, reporting and analytics.

HireAbility’s parser supports any resume, CV and job posting layouts including social media profiles.

ALEX can parse resumes in over 50 languages and dialects including multiple languages and multiple locations in one resume or CV.

HireAbility’s parsing solutions are the most comprehensive, complete, customizable and accurate. Learn more about resume and CV parsing and about how parsing works.

ALEX Job Parser

HireAbility’s ALEX Job Parser converts Job Orders, Postings and Vacancies into XML or JSON output accurately, quickly and efficiently. ALEX Job is accurate, precise and fully configurable.

HireAbility’s ALEX Job Parser and HireAbility’s ALEX Resume and CV Parser share the skills and job title taxonomies to provide the best results in searching, matching and analytics. HireAbility’s skills (competencies) and job title taxonomies are fully customizable and can be user-defined.

Complete documentation is offered online.

Learn more about the benefits of parsing with HireAbility

How does Resume Parsing Work?

Resume or CV parsing is the process of converting a resume, CV or social media profile into a data structure or a set of XML or JSON tags. As a result, resume parsing eliminates the need for manual data entry and allows applicants and companies to easily create and save meaningful data that will significantly improve candidate to job match and search results.

ALEX (Automated Linguistic EXpert), HireAbility’s CV / Resume parser and Job Order parser employs several AI strategies including natural language processing techniques and pattern recognition in order to parse relevant information from resumes written in a free-text format. ALEX is a grammar-based parser using proprietary semantic parsing algorithms to understand and properly tag meaningful data in even the most unconventional and complicated resumes. As a grammar-based resume parser ALEX assigns meaning to terms (words and sentences) based upon the context in which they appear. The resume parser’s ability to properly identify the context of resume terms significantly improves the accuracy of output data compared to conventional ‘key-word’-based and statistical parsers. Compare the difference and take our free trial.

Data output

HireAbility’ Resume / CV parser and Job Order / Vacancy parser output HR-XML and JSON (Lightweight Recruiting Standard) tags for both resumes /CVs and job orders / vacancies. The Resume (Candidate in ver 3.2 HR-XML and Resume in ver. 2.5 HR-XML) XML parses out personal information, contact information, education history, employment history, skills, publications, hobbies and much more. The full schema is available at this link. JSON output produces personal information, contact information, education history, employment history, skills, and many proprietary tags. Both schemas is available at this link.

The Job Order XML and JSON outputs position title, location, salary, job description, required skills, required education and more. The full schemas are available at this link.

All XML and JSON schemas are fully customizable and new tags and extensions can be added if so desired.

Output format can be customized. As a results, any subset of the output tags can be returned on request.

Competencies/Skills and Job Titles Ontologies

After the resume parser identifies the data in the resume ALEX applies semantic matching techniques to standardize and optimize the Skills (Competencies), Job Titles, Dates and Locations. The Intelligence module is optional and fully customizable. ALEX optimizes Skills (Competencies) and Job Titles for an in-depth matching between candidate profiles and job orders later in the process/postings as follows.

1. Validation ontologies associate various permutations of skills and job titles with a standardized, “valid” term from HireAbility’s ontology of skills and replaces “raw” terms with semantically “valid” skills and job titles. HireAbility has compiled an extensive skills and job titles ontology for term validation while at the same time using ALEX’s ability to semantically match sibling terms. Clients can use a client defined taxonomy instead or in addition to HireAbility’s ontologies.

2. Hierarchies identify semantic parent/child relationships between skills or job titles. Hierarchies (ontologies) further enable users to identify and match skills that are not specifically listed in a resume. For example, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Ultrix, and others are children of the parent UNIX. With Hierarchies option enabled, ALEX would return “UNIX” as a skill when one of the children of UNIX was identified (for example, AIX). Skills can have multiple parents and multiple levels of parents. For example, the skill ABAP has the parent SAP, which in turn has the parent ERP.

Social Media Profile Parsing

ALEX CV/Resume parser supports Social Media CV, profile and Business profile parsing. The growing list of Social Media profiles includes LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter profiles.

HR Analytics and HR Data Mining

ALEX CV/Resume parser’s output provides a wealth of structured information crucial to any company or HR department. Using parsing will maximize the impact and effectiveness of HR Analytics and Data Mining projects in driving business outcomes.

Integration

Adding or switching to a new software product can be time consuming and costly. While ALEX is internally a complex tool, its API is easy to use and the integration can be implemented in a matter of minutes. ALEX integrates easily with your system with a single API (product) key and a few lines of code. Here are some integration code samples in various languages. If you do not find a sample in the langue you use, we will do it for you. Contact our support at support@hireability.com .

Support for Multiple Languages

Full parsing capabilities are available in the following languages and dialect in all regions and locations where the languages are used:

Advantages of SaaS Solutions

While we provide installed solutions, the growing benefits of SaaS solutions are significant.

• No hardware costs
• No installation costs
• Continual updates and enhancements
• No unknown internal or outsourced labor costs
• No additional software dependencies
• Continual customer and technical service
• Your labor amounts to a one-time connection to our web service.
• Proprietary Grid technology implementation for peak load handling and scalability. ALEX can handle thousands of resumes and job orders in a single minute.
• Advanced reporting capability
• Customizable set of rules as requested by each client for skills and job titles processing, input/output formats, and any unique parsing requirements you would like us to create for you
• A quick time to market
• 99.999 percent uptime