(Repost) Opening the Kimono on Natural Language

The working world is rife with clichés, repeated ad nauseam in meetings, thought leadership, and the like. You hear things about peeling back the layers and thinking outside the box. You get advice about why you should always be closing even when you don’t work in sales, why you should run things up the flagpole before you circle back and avoid boiling the ocean in favor of going for the low-hanging fruit.

Because if all else fails, you can always do more with less because, well, it is what it is. Raising the bar that frequently is downright exhausting. Not to mention, people don’t actually talk like that IRL (cough, in real life). 

For sourcing and recruiting, this is an important distinction, given the rise of natural language processing. For anyone unfamiliar, NLP is the computer’s ability to understand human language as it’s spoken or written. It’s commonly associated with artificial intelligence, though the concept behind natural language relates to several other disciplines.

In recruiting specifically, natural language dates back years and years to include discussions around semantic search. For as long as sourcers and recruiters have used computers to try and find candidates has the way humans that talk and think played a role in the process. It’s only recently that became tied into automation.

This article originally appeared at RecruitingDaily. To continue reading, visit https://recruitingdaily.com/opening-the-kimono-on-natural-language/.

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