TalentBin is digging into patent records for recruiters.
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If you thought patents were intruding into the tech industry just a wee bit too much, just wait: Now they can be part of the recruiting process.
TalentBin, a San Francisco startup that scrapes social media sites ranging from Quora to Twitter in order to index hiring prospects for recruiters, has added the U.S. Office's patent database to the sources it scours for information on prospective employees.
Call it novel or horrifying, but I can see how it would be useful for recruiters, particularly in areas like biotech and manufacturing. And, yes, software, though you could argue that in many cases software patents are somewhere between obvious and goofy. TalentBin has searched patent records going back to 1985, so chances are if you've received a patent in the last quarter century, they've categorized your skills.
The patent index won't initially be part of TalentBin's overall prospect profiles, but that should available in the coming months. After that, the company hopes to add searches of professional journals to its index.
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