Skillaz Digital Recruitment Platform

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Skillaz is a technology for automating selection and decision-making, which includes robotic processing of job boards, social media and digital evaluation of candidates with subsequent analytics based on Machine Learning.

How does it work

Skillaz technology turns candidate evaluation into an automatic process. The candidate successively goes through several stages online: informing and answering frequently asked questions, "selling" a vacancy and an employer, several types of digital assessment. As a result, only evaluated, relevant (necessary) candidates motivated to work for this particular employer fall to recruiters. Throughout the Skillaz digital interview process, the candidate is accompanied by notifications through letters, online chat, SMS and autocall.

The platform can be embedded in the corporate site as a plugin.

Skillaz helps mass recruitment to companies with an extensive regional network. Skillaz online interviews allow you to evaluate the applicant according to various criteria and invite to a personal meeting with recruiters only the most suitable candidates who are motivated to work for this particular employer. During an interview, the system uses video recognition technology to analyze a candidate's behavior during an interview. After the interview, Skillaz uses machine learning to process data on candidates for selection, evaluates the performance of new employees 6 and 12 months after starting work in the company. As a result, the system helps HR departments create a portrait of the ideal candidate in order to reduce the time and cost of finding new employees, as well as further automate decision-making processes when searching for personnel.

History

2022: Automated recruitment service availability through HeadHunter

and Sber HR-the service Skillaz has developed a service that automatically finds "fresh" candidates for the current one. to base bank Sberbank announced this on August 1, 2022. The platform at the beginning of August 2022 works in conjunction with, in HeadHunter parallel, the development of functionality is underway that will "make friends" with the database of other work sites. More. here

2021: Comparative Evaluation of Recruiting Systems Functionality

TAdviser reviewed seven cloud services for managing candidates for recruiters - ATS (Applicable Tracking System), which are popular in Russia, with a comparative assessment of their functionality. According to the results of the study, the Skillaz platform was included in the category "Custom solutions." Read more here.

2020: Inclusion in the Register of Domestic Software

On October 13, 2020, Skillaz, a Russian developer of intelligent HR technologies, announced the inclusion of Skillaz Digital in the Unified Register of Russian Programs for Electronic Computers and Databases.

The Skillaz system is domestic software and can be used for procurement by government agencies and municipalities as solutions for automation of HR processes. The Skillaz system has received approval from the Expert Council on Russian Software and fully complies with the requirements of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. This is confirmed by the order of the Ministry of Communications of Russia No. 515 of 06.10.2020.

According to Skillaz, the system reduces recruitment costs by 30% and speeds up hiring by 40%. All Skillaz servers are located in Russia. The company is also certified for compliance with the information security requirements of the FSTEC of Russia, is a personal data operator and is registered with Roskomnadzor.

The Skillaz system is a completely Russian development, while many of our solutions are superior to Western ones. Entry into the register of Russian software means recognition of the intellectual capital of our company at the state level. This is certainly an important stage for us. We have already been entrusted with automating the selection of large companies in our industries, and now we are even more open to large-scale projects.

2019

Development of Intelligent Joboff System

On November 8, 2019, Skillaz announced the development of a system of intelligent job offers (job offers), which are automatically generated in Russian or English. The system itself compiles the text of the offer, based on the candidate's profession, position level, salary and more than 50 variables. The product is designed to automate manual labor and increase conversion at the 'last mile' of recruitment, as well as minimize errors due to the human factor.

Employers send offers to candidates who have successfully passed professional selection. The document describes the duties and working conditions, including remuneration, bonuses, social package and other benefits of the employer. Previously, HR specialists prepared such proposals manually, collecting all the conditions agreed with the candidate from different sources. Now a special intelligent support module is responsible for the content and targeted sending of offers from Skillaz customers.

Thanks to the tool, the recruiter can form and send a branded offer to a successful candidate in a couple of minutes. Each offer is created for a candidate individually: the system analyzes it according to a number of criteria and independently decides which blocks should be included. There is a separate tab in the applicant's profile, where all the data necessary to create an offer are collected: description of duties and working conditions from a vacancy, agreements with the applicant on salary and work schedule, as well as his personal data. In one click, the system, according to a given algorithm, independently collects a ready-made offer from all variables.

The development of intelligent offers is one of the first steps in introducing our AI functionality into customer practice. With each new product, we strive to significantly reduce the routine workload of recruiters. On average, a specialist spends 10 to 30 minutes to compile such a letter manually, depending on the vacancy, but our system copes with this task in seconds. In the coming year, we plan to adhere to this tactic and will launch a number of more products on the market that will significantly affect the business performance of customers through the HR function. Andrey Krylov, CEO and founder of Skillaz

The Skillaz technology presented has been pilot tested by one of the company's international customers, and will be available to everyone from November 2019.

Obtaining the certificate of FSTEC of Russia

The information system of Skillaz, the developer of the recruitment automation service of the same name, passed the procedure for assessing compliance with the requirements of the FSTEC of Russia, given in Order No. 21 of February 18, 2013, and received a certificate confirming the provision of level 3 protection of personal data processed in the system. This was reported on September 3, 2019 in Skillaz.

The availability of the certificate confirms the use of information protection tools certified in the FSTEC and FSB systems of Russia, including antivirus protection, firewall shielding and cryptographic methods for protecting data transmitted through public networks, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

According to Skillaz, compliance with FSTEC requirements confirms the competence and responsibility of the company in working with personal data. It also makes it possible to provide services to companies, including the public sector, which are obliged to comply with the requirements for the protection of personal data.

As of September 3, 2019, all Skillaz servers are located in Russia, and the company is an operator of personal data registered with Roskomnadzor.

2017

Integration with SAP SuccessFactors

In May 2017, SAP signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of HR technologies for business with the Russian startup Skillaz. Companies will jointly promote solutions for the selection and management of personnel. Skillaz technology is integrated with SAP SuccessFactors and enables HR departments to obtain information about candidates, manage data, and create recruitment and human resources business processes.

"The result of a joint solution between SAP SuccessFactors and Skillaz will be the construction of a digital recruiting system. This will help our clients to ensure a qualitative increase in the efficiency of recruitment, reduce the cost of finding candidates and the timing of closing vacancies. In addition, integration will make it possible to work more efficiently with new employees: improve their quality, reduce adaptation times and the number of layoffs in the first year of work, "said Sharak Andrey, Deputy General Director of SAP CIS. - Cooperation with Skillaz confirms our desire to find new partners in Russia and develop joint B2B solutions and integrations for SAP customers and partners. "

Integration of SkyEng, an online English knowledge assessment service

On January 25, 2017, Skillaz announced the integration of SkyEng, an online English language assessment service, into its technology. With this step, Skillaz will be able to automatically assess the level of English knowledge among job applicants.

In January 2017, Skillaz and SkyEng signed an agreement to integrate the service into Skillaz technology. This will allow automatic assessment of the level of English among candidates of non-top positions, which will be useful for companies that work with foreign partners.

The recruiter checks the level of English among applicants, and often the real level of English among the candidate does not correspond to the declared level. SkyEng has become an additional element in the assessment of applicants in Skillaz technology. The assessment of the level of English occurs online without human participation, saving recruiters time, and significantly speeds up the search for the desired candidate.

Working with SkyEng is another step towards creating a universal technology that will help you find candidates in the labor market faster and more efficiently. Already, our platform allows you to save up to 35% of the time for recruiting. In partnership with other innovative services, we hope to create a unique solution that will take the search for personnel to a technologically new level. Andrey Krylov, CEO and co-founder of Skillaz

Skillaz and VisionLabs create a joint product

Skillaz and VisionLabs, a developer of facial recognition technologies, are working on a computer analysis system for the behavior of an applicant at an interview. By assessing the candidate's behavior, the system will draw conclusions about his professional qualities and fitness for office. According to partners, there are no similar products in Russia.

Robotic assessment of applicants should reduce the time and funds that companies spend on finding new employees. The product is planned to be launched in Q4 2017, as VisionLabs CEO Alexander Hanin told CNews. Prospective customers are companies with large hiring needs, Enterprise level. The technology will be offered to all current and future Skillaz customers.

VisionLabs will directly develop and train the system. Skillaz, according to the general director of the company Andrei Krylov, is responsible for combining this tool with other methods of evaluating applicants, profiling candidates and directly introducing the product into the business of corporations. The VisionLabs team has more than 40 people, the Skillaz team has more than 10.

Analysis of the applicant's behavior

The system is based on facial recognition technology developed by VisionLabs and using deep learning neural networks. The program will evaluate static and dynamic traits in the candidate's behavior during interviews and associate them with certain social and professional competencies.

When asked by CNews what these signs are, and which competencies from them can follow, Alexander Hanin replied: "The simplest example is to assess the candidate's communicability based on his answers to a certain set of questions asked by the online interview system. The created product will be able to search for the relationship between the behavior of the candidate on the video card and the degree of expression of one or another competence thanks to the estimated data accumulated by Skillaz technology. "

The system will analyze the video recording of the candidate's online interview. The analysis will take into account the candidate's facial expressions, his gestures, as well as physiognomy. But what specific signs will become the most important for the most suitable candidate, the neural network will determine itself.

According to Skillaz, the technology allows the recruitment of staff at all levels: top managers, middle managers, mass staff. The only limitation is that among the mass staff, video interviews are not widespread, the conversion is small. Therefore, first of all, the technology is aimed at medium and top positions, and in the future - at mass personnel.

Skillaz will be responsible for automating the entire hiring process. With the help of its online testing system, the least suitable applicants are screened out, thus, pre-selected candidates will appear before the recognition system for interviews.

2015: Business Angels allocate €160,000 to launch company

Skillaz was launched in January 2015 by Andrey Krylov and Grigory Dudash. In December 2015, the company raised €160 thousand from several business angels. Skillaz at this time is positioned as an online recruiting platform. The service helps to compile a video sample and conduct a video interview on previously prepared issues. The employer places a vacancy and test questions for candidates on the platform, applicants answer these questions by recording video. The service forms a whole video interview from the answers, which the employer can watch at any time and note - he "liked" the application or refused the applicant. Among the clients are ABC Vkusa, VimpelCom, Wrike.

2014: Video Presentation

Skillaz - staff selection platform, (2014)