Exclusive Interaction - Sandesh Goyal, MD, Eightfold India

A major benefit of a talent Intelligence platform is the ability to reduce unconscious bias, particularly through "masking" results about job candidates, such as their gender, their ethnicity or race, or evidence of their age. Equal Opportunity Algorithms, the state of the art in AI bias prevention, should be used.  Further, a   talent intelligence platform should offer the ability to identify the skills and experience of your high-performing employees and search for potential candidates similar to them. It should have deep learning behind it so that artificial intelligence can scour millions of profiles for matching candidates based on similar capabilities, not keywords.

Compliance and keeping up on an ongoing basis with country-specific laws should be a priority for any platform.

The AI needs to be provable and explainable. A talent intelligence platform should be built on deep learning and neural networks, not keyword search or other old technology. The system should be built on a foundation of extensive data powered by AI, with hundreds of millions of profiles used to train the AI models.

A  true talent intelligence platform should have AI ready to use upon implementation; it shouldn't require many months of training. It shouldn't be dependent on the profiles of any one company that is implementing it in order to function.

An ideal talent acquisition platform empowers the enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage. The AI model of Eightfold is built by top engineers out of Facebook, Google and other leading technology companies.  Recently, Eightfold published its first book, What's Next for You: The Eightfold Path to Transforming the Way We Hire and Manage Talent.