The trend for both job-seekers and employers is to ‘go niche’ when searching for the ideal role or candidate, and the virtual career space is experiencing an evolution as users of general job boards begin to migrate towards specialised sites. “Many recruiters are making a shift because these niche web communities have the ability to attract a more targeted audience based on specific industries or geographical locations,” says Glendon. “However, the traditional FS job boards in Europe simply aren’t designed to filter candidates effectively: they are generic, produced on the cheap to attract mass flooding rather than elicit selective response. This is because they are built by IT technicians, whereas WEMPLOY has been designed by someone with 20 years’ experience as employer, recruiter and headhunter.”
Unlike existing local job boards, WEMPLOY’s unique algorithm uses autonomous learning techniques to identify potential matches between candidates and jobs, without relying solely on tags or textual content. It looks at indicators such as user response to different job offers – read/bookmark/apply – as well as the interaction between employers and different candidate profiles. In other words, both job-seekers and recruiters will get a finely tailored service that only improves over time.
