Corporate HR / Recruiting

Every time you post a job opening, hundreds or even thousands of applications pour in. For each resume, someone on your staff has to type in the information, send out an acknowledgement, and then spend time reading it over to see if it's a good fit. All this makes the hiring process slow and expensive. Burning Glass has developed sophisticated automation for processing resumes and matching people with jobs, moving your recruiting organization from processing to hiring.

You have invested in an applicant tracking system (ATS) but, to get value out of it, you still face the time-intensive task of loading candidate data. And while the ATS is good at making sure that candidates don't get "lost" in the system, most won't help you find the right candidates from within the stack. Nor will most ATS's spare you from having to weed out all those unviable candidates. The Burning Glass Lens™ platform is just what you need to fill these gaps in ATS functionality. It offers automated inbound application processing, Predictive Matching™ of candidates to jobs, and powerful search capabilities.

Parsing

LensXRay™ significantly enhances the way you process candidate applications. Because it handles unstructured resumes in most major document formats, your staff can upload resumes into your database no matter the source: job boards, email, your client's website, etc. We even have an optional mail handling module that will identify the resume either in attachments or in the body of the email and then screen for viruses and duplicates. Automated extraction eliminates the high cost of manual data entry - so you no longer need to retain staff to enter candidate details.

And because resumes are uploaded within 1 to 2 seconds, your recruiters have access to promising candidates up to one week sooner - giving you a big edge in filling vacancies ahead of the competition.

And while our searching and matching technologies help you weed out unqualified applicants, LensXRay™ also helps you speed the review of resumes that do warrant a recruiter's attention. By reformatting candidate CV's in a custom template, resumes are easier to read since all of the candidate information always appears in a standard, easy-to-find format.

Parsing also improves candidate experience. By embedding LensXRay™, you can pre-populate candidate application forms or free candidates from completing forms altogether. Burning Glass customers have experienced decreases in abandoned applications of up to 35%.

Searching & Matching

With conventional search tools, the more candidates you have on file, the more cumbersome it is to find relevant talent. A simple keyword search could return hundreds or even thousands of resumes. So your databank goes largely unused.

Burning Glass turns this formula on its head by enabling your firm to leverage the full power of its candidate base and to achieve increasing returns to scale. Because our intelligent search tools are capable of analyzing millions of resumes and postings simultaneously, the bigger your database, the more likely our engine is to find a perfect match.

Many technologies fail to deliver because they demand too much of users. Not only is LensMatch™ the most effective technology available but it is also the most intuitive. LensMatch™ searches directly from unstructured position descriptions - the same ones you post to job boards or receive from hiring managers. LensMatch™ does not require that any complex job profiles be completed so there are no barriers to user adoption. In fact, some recruiting departments have configured LensMatch™ to display the best matches from the database whenever a job posting is received. Because LensMatch™ returns candidates who look intuitively right for the job, frontline users quickly develop confidence in the results.

LensMatch™ puts a range of tools at your staff's disposal so they can search in whatever way they find most effective. Resume Cloning™ allows recruiters to search more readily based on their intuitive feel for client requirements by finding more candidates similar to one they know to be a good match. Smartlist™ returns candidates with the skills, experiences, and career paths that make them a good match for a free text job description. And for those recruiters who still like keyword searching, LensMatch™ allows them to narrow their search to specific sections of the resume.

Burning Glass also enhances the way you screen applicants. A single ad may draw hundreds of responses. LensMatch™ will score each resume against the job description so the frontline can easily screen out those candidates who simply aren't qualified.

But LensMatch™ actually improves the quality of candidate flow by enabling candidates to find the right positions for them more easily. Rather than asking candidates to search through all of the job listings on your site, LensMatch™ will suggest the most appropriate vacancies based on their resumes. In this way, candidates apply for jobs better suited to their experience. And because recruiters can search more effectively, you can build stronger relationships with passive candidates, alerting them whenever relevant positions arise.