Most recruitment startups simply apply machine learning to resumes
Frida Polli · Matching People to Careers Bias-Free // Frida Polli, Pymetrics (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Feb 3, 2017 · at 12:28
Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO of Pymetrics, discusses how emerging recruitment technology startups approach candidate matching at Data Driven NYC.
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“So there are a handful of startups that are starting to do this type of work in the recruiting field. Many of them are focusing on the resume as a field, as a source of data.”
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