CodeFights Releases AI-Driven Sourcing Assistant To Help Recruiters Find Qualified Engineering Candidates Faster

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CodeFights announced the launch today of the CodeFights Sourcing Assistant, a tool that optimizes the technical recruiting process by predicting the likelihood that a job candidate is a good match for a company's open engineering roles. Powered by machine learning, the technology makes recruiting easier, faster, more efficient, and more effective.

The CodeFights Source Assistant is a Chrome extension that uses machine learning to analyze the skills listed in a company's open roles along with historical technical assessment data collected by CodeFights Recruiter. When a company's recruiter is sourcing potential candidates on LinkedIn, the AI-driven Sourcing Assistant scans their profile pages to identify skills that match those needed for open engineering roles. It then uses this information to instantly generate a match score for each candidate, enabling recruiters to find more qualified engineering candidates, faster.

The CodeFights Sourcing Assistant enables companies to use data from CodeFights Recruiter to further streamline their recruiting process. Launched in October 2017, CodeFights Recruiter is a skills-based recruiting platform that matches employers with technically pre-screened talent from CodeFights' active community of over a million developers and provides advanced assessment tools to efficiently test and interview candidates. The CodeFights Sourcing Assistant extends the use of this data to an entirely different platform?LinkedIn. By identifying promising candidates, and flagging those that are not good fits, on LinkedIn, CodeFights empowers companies to calibrate their hiring process across the recruiting and engineering teams.

"There's a huge gap between the recruiting and the engineering teams in most companies and it can seem like they are speaking different languages," said CodeFights founder and CEO Tigran Sloyan. "The AI sourcing assistant bridges that gap. Since the assistant is using data to generate its match scores, recruiters can rest easy knowing that they are prioritizing the things that matter most to the engineering team for each role."

The CodeFights Sourcing Assistant goes beyond matching skills listed in job descriptions with skills listed in LinkedIn profiles. It actually uses data from the technical assessments a company has already done to go deeper. If the engineering team says it's looking for certain skills, but the skills they are testing for in their assessments are different, the assistant accounts for this. This means that the engineers a recruiter sources from LinkedIn using the assistant are more likely to be liked (and hired) by the engineering team.

In addition, the Sourcing Assistant helps recruiters and hiring managers reduce bias and increase diversity in their engineering teams. The reality is that unconscious biases creep into decision-making processes. A recruiter might prioritize people who went to a certain school, or a hiring manager may only want to interview people who worked at a certain company. In contrast, the Sourcing Assistant only looks at a prospect's skills. This surfaces candidates that a hiring team might not otherwise look at because they don't fit the usual profile.

The AI Sourcing Assistant makes the recruiting process more seamless for everyone involved. By automatically scanning prospects' LinkedIn profile pages, the tool frees up huge amounts of recruiter time. They no longer have to read a whole profile page to evaluate whether someone represents a good fit?the Assistant does this automatically. And by ensuring that all the candidates recruiters send to the engineering team to interview are well-matched to the roles, the relationship between recruiting and engineering improves.  

The Codefights Sourcing Assistant is available with Codefights Recruiter.  Click here to see a demo.

About CodeFights:

Founded in 2014, CodeFights is the first company to offer a matchmaking algorithm to ensure that a software engineer's skills are accurately matched with a company's open job requirements.  Codefights Recruiter is an online application that allows organizations to source, test and measure pre-qualified engineers from the Codefights Community.  Companies such as Asana, Evernote, Dropbox and Thumbtack are finding quality engineers with less work.  

Contact: Jake Katz, [email protected]

SOURCE CodeFights