Dive Brief:

• Algorithms are slowly but surely becoming more integral to recruiting, according to an article at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
• As a result, the article says, algorithmic tools definitely will have an impact how today's recruiter’s do their jobs. Sheeroy Desai, chief executive of San Francisco-based recruiting software developer Gild, told SHRM that Boolean search – a current key skillset – eventually will become extinct (supplanted by algorithms).
• Primarily, professionals called sourcers, who deep dive on job boards, databases and places like LinkedIn and Glassdoor looking for talent, may have their roles changed dramatically. Instead, sourcers will need to sharpen their people skills because "making initial contact with the candidates uncovered by technology" and "getting people into the funnel" is going to be critical, Desai said.

Dive Insight:

With the massive numbers of people on social media platforms, algorithms are practically the only way to keep up with the data, according to the article.

Algorithms can “take massive amounts of data being generated before, during and after the recruiting process and turn it into actionable information—with one goal being to predict whether a person will be right for the job, the team and the company,” Steve Levy, director of global sourcing at Austin, Texas-based job site Indeed, told SHRM.

In the end, Desai said a new job, the re-marketer, may emerge. “Companies spend a lot of money getting people to apply for jobs,” he said. “For every 100 of those, they hire three. Well, what about the other 97? No one’s doing anything about nurturing them. You have to keep re-marketing, and I think we’ll see the emergence of that role.”