Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I have seen this in other sectors, where a company is essentially offering a software as a service, but it is also offering a business process outsourcing. We can call it SaaS-enabled BPO. There is a company we have covered extensively, called Sabrix, that has a very refined ability to do tax calculations

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, you are basically looking at your data and doing predictive modeling. David Bernstein: Correct. There is predictive modeling, and then there is the branch fraction index. The benchmarking ability in a real-time comparison is not a level of insight or capability that has ever been within an HR person’s grasp. I have

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So, you are basically optimizing job advertising campaigns for your clients based on your extensive knowledge [of] data that is flowing through your system and of the behavior of different clients. Let me ask you about trends because you are doing big data on a very large scale. What trends do you see

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When you make that recommendation, what is happening in the back end? David Bernstein: We bring forward a recommendation of the job or outlet to be used by our client – at which point in the year and for which positions [they should use certain outlets]. To get to that, we study the markets

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s discuss what kind of big data–related work you are doing. Dave Bernstein: Probably you are looking to know more about where big data is born – the concept of the transaction itself and the residual information. The transaction it creates has become a core base of a lot of the big data.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 1)

David Bernstein is the vice president of the big data division at eQuest, a major job posting distribution company. Each year, more than 250 million job postings are delivered through eQuest. In this interview, David talks about how eQuest handles big data, how information is being gathered to provide customers with accurate consulting, and trends

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From Zero To One Hundred Million: TheLadders.com CEO Marc Cenedella (Part 7)

SM: How do you view LinkedIn? I have seen your ads there. MC: We are one of the largest advertisers on LinkedIn, and we have a great relationship with them. I have a profile there. I think that LinkedIn and TheLadders are absolutely complementary.

From Zero To One Hundred Million: TheLadders.com CEO Marc Cenedella (Part 6)

SM: How has the online industry impacted the traditional executive search firms? Do you work with recruiters, or do you replace them? MC: Once a company has decided to hire $100,000 talent, they have made a decision that they need a professional to handle it. There are certain things your in-house HR staff is equipped

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