We've just launched a new feature at Entelo that we think you're going to love: Top Skills. Our ace team of engineers has spent the last year poring over candidate data to identify which candidate skills are the strongest. Why? Well certainly you've all seen a resume with something like this on it:
One of the more popular new features on Entelo is our Hide functionality. Let's say you are doing a search in the Bay Area on Entelo for a Ruby Engineer and you come across Wolfram Arnold. He looks like an incredible engineer (I actually know he's an incredible engineer as we worked together on one of my previous companies!). However, he just started a new company called Trust.cc (which is very cool...check it out). So he's probably not interested in a new career opportunity.
Most searches on Entelo tend to be for skills ("Ruby on Rails," "Java"), positions ("VP Marketing"), or both ("senior developer PHP"). But a significant minority are a name, where the searcher is looking for a specific person ("Larry Page").
One of the things we're very excited about with Entelo is all the little hidden things that people are learning on their way to becoming Entelo power users. One of those things is a very powerful search tool referred to as the "caret" which is represented as the ^ symbol.
This is the third blog post (read the first "You Are More than Your Resume" here and the second "We Want to Help Other Companies Grow here) in a series where I'll be sharing why we're building Entelo. We'll be launching soon and we thought it was time to share a little bit more about our motivations. We feel that the world of employment and hiring is changing and many tools of the past are not adequate for the future.
This is the first blog post in a series where I'll be sharing more about why we're building Entelo. We'll be launching soon and we thought it was time to share a little bit more about our motivations. We feel that the world of employment and hiring is changing and many tools of the past are not adequate for the future.
The wizards on the team here at Entelo have been polishing our search results based on a lot of customer feedback and we're excited to roll out some new changes today. You'll see some new names popping up and, what we hope, are more relevant results. Search quality is really tough to get right (Google's still far from perfect at it after all these years) but we're doing our best to listen to customer feedback and provide an even better user experience.
After being fairly stealthy for the first ten months or so of our existence, we ended up with two pieces in TechCrunch last week: a TechCrunch TV interview with Semil Shah and an op-ed piece entitled The Rise of Full-Box CRM which, while not being about Entelo, is part of the underlying foundation behind the Entelo thesis.
Other sites have their stars. BeautyMint has Jessica Simpson. New startup 12Society recently landed ace San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum. We figured that it was time for Entelo to have some stars of our own!
If there's one thing we're passionate about here at Entelo, it's doing whatever we can to support growing companies. Fast-growth firms are the engines that power our economy. After talking to hundreds of people who are running these companies about how difficult it was to hire people, especially for certain types of positions, we decided we'd do our part to help fix this problem.
