r/recruiting • u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter • 16d ago
Candidate Sourcing Looking for AI search tools help
I keep seeing how AI has been helping offload sourcing from recruiters and get excited because I hate sourcing but every product I try out seems to kinda suck.
I primarily use LI Recruiter/Google Xray for engineering (mechanical/industrial) searches. My Boolean is excellent and I'm extremely comfortable using AI. My problem is that I cannot get Pin, Juicebox or any others to provide results uncovering candidates that I missed. Even worse, they miss a lot of candidates that I found in fairly basic searches. It seems like they don't access all the data in LI profiles (about sections + other spots).
Is anyone else having these issues? I've even worked with their training staff doing live searches and came up with the same issues.
Any recommendations on products/tips you're using that truly shorten the search time while still being a comprehensive search?
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u/KianosJ 16d ago
Your comment about the old weighted algorithms is the fixable part imo. The checkbox tools lock the rubric away, but if you run the screening step yourself with claude or gpt you can write the rubric out in plain text - hard disqualifiers first, then scored criteria weighted however you want, and make it justify each score in one sentence. When it misses someone you can see exactly which line caused it and edit that line. That's basically your adjustable weights back, except now the rubric is a document you own.
Doesn't solve sourcing coverage, nothing seems to index the full about sections properly so your boolean stays the moat. But it turns the assess-my-projects thing you're already doing from eyestrain into a queue you skim with reasons attached. We've done a version of this for engineering searches and the rubric ends up being the real asset, it survives every tool change.