Understand what ‘crawling’ external sites means with Reejig and how this enriches profiles
Definitions - Crawling vs Enriching
Crawling:
In the context of Reejig, "crawling" refers to the automated process of searching and acquiring publicly available information from online sources. For instance, when we crawl LinkedIn profiles, we collect data such as a user's name, job title, company, skills, and other professional information from their public profiles.
Enriching:
Enriching involves enhancing existing data with additional valuable information. We enrich data by updating it with public LinkedIn profiles to keep it current. We also enrich people's profiles and job profiles with skills intelligence, providing a more comprehensive view of skills and expertise.
How this works with Reejig
Reejig crawl and enrich talent profiles with publicly available LinkedIn data. Reejig will only crawl public profile data as profiles marked as private or restricted by users are not accessed.
GitHub and Stack Overflow:
GitHub and Stack Overflow are part of our standard data crawling process, however, they are primarily relevant for digital talent. Data accuracy can be lower due to the use of different handles (pseudonyms). It's important to note that for these platforms, we primarily enrich profiles of individuals already known to your organization. We do not randomly crawl and pull in new, unfamiliar profiles into your ecosystem.
External Job Boards
Reejig does not ‘crawl’ from external job boards such as Seek.com and Indeed.com, as doing so would breach the terms and conditions set by these platforms. Engaging in such activities could also pose a risk for any Reejig client, as it would be a violation of your agreements with these sites, potentially resulting in loss of access. For a clear understanding, you may refer to the Terms and Conditions of Seek and Indeed regarding data crawling policies.
Social Platforms
Reejig will not crawl Instagram or Facebook due to our stringent ethical guidelines on data access, and doing so would also breach our data privacy agreements with our customers.
As a supportive measure, we suggest running adverts on these platforms and feeding applications into your ATS. Reejig can assist in exporting the applicant responses and integrating them into the Reejig ecosystem, adhering to all legal and ethical standards.