Welcome to Talent Tracker
Talent Tracker belongs to a suite of applications used for the Wellspring initiative.
In conjunction with the Achievement Hub and Digital Wallet it demonstrates a proof of concept of how candidates can be searched, ranked and evaluated using the Comprehensive Learner Record.
The following references are available and may be of use when working with this application.
- The CLR Specification
- The CASE Specification
- The Achievement HUB available here
- The Digital Wallet available here
A set of data is created uniquely for each organization that logs into the talent search.
Every user from that organization shares the same companies, job postings and talent searches.
The user id on login is established from your IMS login. In order use the Talent Search you must have an IMS login.
A Company in the context of the Talent Tracker represents a set of job postings, searches and candidates that are all grouped together. You may have more than one company.
By default an organization begins with a single default company which may be modified but not removed.
Talent Tracker allows the ability to swap between different user roles. This, along with building and configuring CLRs in the Hub and Wallet, reflects this different roles in the pairing of companies with job candidates.
The 'primary' role in the Talent Tracker is the Talent Recruiter. This reflects someone creating job postings and searching for candidate CLRs based on qualifications.
There is also an Admin role which allows you to customize or add new companies and additional CLR Providers.
Finally, there is an Applicant role which can view postings and submit CLRs directly to apply to them.
You can switch roles by accessing the Demo Controls at the top of the window on any screen. An example is shown below.
If you have created more companies through the admin role you will be able to do that here as well using the pull down for Company.
All users from the same organization share the same companies. The 'default' company that is created the first time a user from your organization logs in cannot be deleted, but can be renamed and edited.
CLR Providers and Job Postings are grouped by company.
In order to configure a Job Posting and Candidate Search you need to add at least one CLR Provider.
CLR Providers may be selected from the Achievement hub via an API. This will autofill the key/secret pair and the required end points.
Any non-hub CLR Provider may be added and used here if desired as well.
The Internal/External setting provides a way to distinguish between an internal employee provider where an employer is looking to upskill candidates within it's own workforce versus external sources of candidates.
The Talent Tracker uses conceptually familiar Job Postings paired with criteria for selecting CLRs. Job Postings and Candidate Searches are the heart of Talent Tracker.
Job Postings can be accessed via the Talent Recruiter Dashboard OR through the Job Postings screen.
After you have created the Job Posting with Title, Position Summary and Roles and Responsibilities you can add one or more qualifications.
Qualifications are standard Job Posting qualifications, but can be decorated with our search criteria. There are two types of search criteria: search terms and CASE Alignments.
Multiple Search Terms may be added to qualifications. You can use both single word search terms or quoted text.
All searches are case insensitive. Quoted text may include special characters. The search will not find similar results (synonyms, mispellings, etc..)
You may optionally add CASE Alignments to a Qualification. This will search for Candidates with CLR Assertions that either have, or are associated with, these alignments.
You can launch the Candidate Search from the Job Posting screen directly or, once a the first search has been run, you may refresh it from the Search Results Screen.
All Providers that have been set up for this Company will be used in the Candidate Search.
The Candidate Results Screen shows all candidates and applicants for which an assertion was found that matched at least one of our selected qualification criteria.
Candidates are ranked in descending order with the highest scoring candidates at the top of the list.
All qualifications are included in the search by default, but you may include any combination of qualifications and refresh the candidate search for potentially different results.
All Candidates coming from CLR providers are anonymized. Once an anonymous number has been assigned for a candidate (eg 'Candidate #3') it persists for subsequent searches on the same Job Posting. Additionally, providers are anonymized by default, but you may toggle the visibility of providers using the drop down at the top of the search. You may also toggle to partially anonymize providers and display only internal vs. external for providers with no additional information. This preference will persist with your session.
Through the Applicant role a CLR may be submitted directly. It is included and ranked in candidate results along with candidates pulled from CLR Providers.
Selecting 'View' or clicking on the candidate takes you to the Candidate Detail Screen.
The candidate's scoring is broken down by qualification. For each qualification the scoring algorithm uses the highest scoring matching assertion in the aggregate score for the candidate. Several assertions may match our criteria and are stored for scoring, but only the best is used in the total.
A number of elements impact candidate scoring. The following are considered in scoring:
- Qualification priority. High priority qualifications rate higher than low priority ones.
- Type of CASE alignment associations. Reciprocal alignments rate higher than 'one way' assocations.
- Achievement Type. Achievement Types are categorized to place emphasize on types the reflect credentials, knowledge or experience.
- CLR properties add additional value to a candidate's CLR. Evidence, Results, Endorsement, Level, Field of Study and Specialization all contribute additional value.
The full details of a candidate's CLR may be viewed at any time by clicking 'View CLR'.
Finally to simulate the end of the Talent Tracker workflow we include a 'Contact' button. This would either reach out to an applicant's provided email address or submit a message back to the CLR Provider letting the candidate know of our interest.