Today we would like to share two huge and important updates that have been recently added to DevScanr. The first of them concerns the new platform/admin functionality, and the second is about our talent database 🚀
1. Projects
Long-requested “Project” functionality is now available on the DevScanr platform for customers of all tiers. Starred profiles are now added to a selected project (instead of globally), hidden profiles and notes are also project-specific. Recruiters can create, edit, and see the list of your projects. The ones that are no longer relevant can be archived or deleted.
If you work with multiple projects in parallel, we recommend doing that in different browser tabs. We’ll extend “Projects” with more features over time, as we collect more feedback.
It’s worth mentioning that the “Saved Filters” functionality, that has been available since the start of the project, is not affected by the new changes. Filter sets are orthogonal to projects and are managed and used independently of each other. On DevScanr it is both possible to:
- apply/reuse the same filter set in different projects;
- apply/reuse different filter sets within the same project.
2. Extended Talent Database
Remember our first blog post, entitled “You miss 99% of GitHub talent profiles”? It’s no longer relevant... but in a positive sense. We have further improved our data mining algorithms to find even more profiles. How much more? Quite a lot:
| Country | Profiles Increase |
|---|---|
| Poland | +107% |
| Serbia | +75% |
| Costa Rica | +84% |
| Armenia | +44% |
In the forementioned post we demonstrated ×100 difference in the number of profiles searchable via DevScanr (vs via GitHub). On the same database, the difference was exclusively attributed to search algorithms. With new numbers it’s getting even more dramatic:
| GitHub User Search | DevScanr Talent Search | |
|---|---|---|
| TypeScript Developers in Poland | 900 | 12,000 → 18,000+ |
| React & TypeScript Developers in Poland | 20 | 7,000 → 10,000+ |
| Senior React & TypeScript Developers in Poland | 13 | 4,000 → 6,000+ |
Ratios that are hard to believe but easy to verify, so feel free to do that.
What’s next?
We keep working on our data layer to bring even more features to our customers. In the upcoming months we’re going to improve our contact extraction algorithms, so talent profiles will have more contacts. We’re also experimenting with an entirely new functionality called “Signals” that will locate talent that are currently open to job proposals. Including those who does not necessary share the intent... Reacting to such signals before the talent LI page is decorated with a green badge, and it gets competitive, might be a good idea.