Recruiting lacks classic big data scale because hiring happens individually
Daniel Chait · A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Jun 8, 2018 · at 4:15
Daniel Chait, founder and CEO of Greenhouse, outlines software design challenges when building data-driven recruiting and inclusion products.
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“When you talk about data, like people are always talking about big data in hiring and recruiting, you often don't have like classically think of as big data. You often do things one at a time.”
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