Reuben Teijeiro and Aleksandra Asanin, YouPal

1. NODES 2020 Extended
How Neo4j helps in the recruiting process

2. Meet the speakers
Alexandra
Data scientist passionate
about new discoveries in the
era of digital transformation.
Experimenting with new
technologies every day.
Ruben
Co-founder of Youpal. Open
Source advocate with more
than 20 years of experience
working for large organisations
using different FLOSS
technologies.

3. About Youpal
Distributed, Remote and Open Source company
driving the digital transformation of many startups
and large organisations.
Youpal was born in Sweden.
Today has presence in Netherlands, UK, Spain,
Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Guinea and Dubai.

4. Problems we are addressing
Fast changing demand requires asynchronous actions
There is no time for traditional hiring process

5. The future of work
platform
driven
Flexible
time
better
rates
better
distribution

6. What gig essentially is
flexibility
additional income
better opportunities
freedom
diversity
career balance

7. Data we capture
testseduexp certs langs personalitylocation

8. What can be relevant for hire?
Skills set
Expertise
Projects
Location
Nationality
Languages
Rates

9. Data model

10. But there is more...
employee
Active in XX communities
Volunteers in YY organizations
Follows NN people with specific skill set
Writes a blog about ZZ technologies
Visits MM related conferences

11. Why graph?
Essential for understanding competencies of people
Querying is faster and more intuitive
People naturally fit into graph data model
Many dependencies are not obvious otherwise

12. Graph algorithms to detect...
Communities
Teams
Career paths
Highly performant people
Toxic leaders
Up-Skilling

13. Drupal module for Neo4j
https://drupal.org/project/neo4j
Some were lazy but we are not
Current maintainers of the module
Upgrading the module and giving back to the community

14. Adopting graph technology
Not only are we using Neo4j in recruitment,
but we also are planning to apply it in…
Cloud
Healthcare
Education

15. Thanks!