These days recruiting a new employee accounts for a huge investment by the company. A major section of the company’s revenue is spent on staff salaries. Thus with improvement in technology, improved strategies and planning can be used in the recruitment process.
Klout scores are used by companies to rank users according to their social influence, especially for recruitments in sales and marketing roles. Gild is another service used in the field of technical programming jobs. In this, service software development professionals are assessed based on their contribution to public and open sources and their experiences in the past.
Thus Big Data helps in eliminating the guess work in the recruitment process thus finding a more scientific approach of recruiting staff.
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