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Harvard-Backed Experfy, Co-Founded by Sarabjot Kaur is Pioneering the Future of Work and AI Solutions for Mission Critical Work

"Experfy believes in the power of a strong partnership model between people and artificial intelligence to elevate outcomes and ensure that your business has the right talent to execute your business strategy."

To meet the growing challenge of hiring, companies are spending more time and money on HR effort, from employee branding, to headhunting and turning their own employees into LinkedIn recruiters. But there’s a better solution, and it comes in the form of a ‘talent cloud’. Building a talent cloud allows you to harness the amazing freelance talent available on the market and overcome most challenges that come when working with freelancers. After all, we all know that it can be challenging to find the right freelancer. Even when you do find the right talent, it takes time for them to get to know your company, your style, and adjust to your quirks. Another issue is that the moment you need a freelancer, you need them now. Therefore you don’t have the time to search for the perfect freelancer or onboard them properly. All of these challenges can be addressed with a talent cloud workforce strategy.

Incubated in Harvard Innovation Lab, Experfy specializes in pipelining and deploying the world's best AI and engineering talent at breakneck speed, with exceptional focus on quality and compliance. Enterprises and governments also leverage their award-winning SaaS platform to build their own customized future of work solutions such as talent clouds. Experfy believes in the power of a strong partnership model between people and artificial intelligence to elevate outcomes and ensure that your business has the right talent to execute your business strategy. Leveraging their AI/ML algorithms in combination with vetting by the world-class Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will ensure that your organization will win the war on talent. Experfy differentiates itself by having SMEs vet all candidates before they are interviewed by its clients. The Experfy platform is enterprise-ready with worker classification and background checks, while serving as an employer of record.

Experfy TalentClouds Platform

Experfy TalentClouds consist of talent pools that Experfy has specifically build for the skills and roles in which Experfy specializes. The talent in these clouds has been vetted and approved by Experfy SMEs. When you are looking to hire at scale or need to hire for specific skills that are outside Experfy’s area of expertise, then Custom TalentClouds are the answer. Inquire about how you can leverage their AI-powered SaaS platform to facilitate direct sourcing of talent that is important to you. Experfy takes the guesswork out of hiring by pre-vetting each candidate using Subject Matter Experts. They perform background checks, worker classification, and payrolling, enabling you to bring a candidate on board with unmatched speed without sacrificing compliance. When you enroll in Compliance Services, they’ll ensure each Expert is properly classified as an Independent Contractor, or Employed by the Staffing Agency. Correctly classifying Experts as either independent contractors or employees can be complex and requires applying federal and state laws. Streamline the contracting process, and let them reduce your HR administrative burden. By utilizing this service, Experfy protects your company from misclassification risk.

Helping Organizations Find Talent in a Wider Range of Skills and from a Far Deeper Pool

Skills Ontology: AI and NLP are a part of their platform DNA but they are not sufficient by themselves to give you precise talent matches. They take their AI one step further by building a highly customized skills taxonomy and ontology that is specific to your organization. Algorithmic matching is sharpened when a robust taxonomy is applied to understand a candidate's skills against your hiring needs and roles. Experfy has developed the most comprehensive taxonomy with thousands of categories and sub-categories that are further divided into three dimensions that enable you to drill down on each candidate's: Functional Skills, Technology and Tools, and Industry Experience and Domain Knowledge. The training data they use to train their self-learning AI-based contextual search and matching algorithms also ensures that your hiring process is free of bias and conforms to employment law. Furthermore, the same taxonomy is used to map your internal workforce to identify skills-gaps and recommend highly personalized career pathing and upskilling programs.

Experfy Insights: Explore the latest blogs, podcasts, articles, and conversations with experts and thought leaders in emerging technologies and future of work. The industry’s first ATS that is designed to build TalentCloud communities at scale, while supporting vetting and pipelining of talent based on custom workflows to accommodate your on-demand hiring process. You define the steps in your community building and recruiting lifecycle. The TalentCloud ATS moves the candidates seamlessly through each step. You also have the ability to create custom triggers during each action. The TalentCloud ATS lets you manage the entire recruitment process from a single interface, while integrating with other enterprise-grade third-party systems. Collaborate with hiring managers by sharing shortlisted candidate profiles and rosters from the platform. Or empower them to use Experfy as a self-service solution. Managers can check availability of experts through the platform and if they are available, invite them to interviews using a user-friendly scheduling tool. It’s a powerful and flexible system for defining fine-grained permissions on a role-by-role basis. All the access is controlled in the system by means of user personas and roles. These personas and roles are configured and administered through a central dashboard. You can use one of the predefined templates or create your own roles and personas. Experfy can also provide SSO access to your entire organization or select user groups defined by your SSO policy.

Report and Analyze: Reporting and analytics capabilities enable you to turn your team’s community building and recruiting activity data into business insights. You have access to custom dashboards that are based on KPIs that are relevant to your business. You can expect an AI company like Experfy to provide a highly sophisticated set of analytics dashboards to track essential KPIs. In fact, they pride themselves in building the industry’s leading platform that is able to tie jobs-related KPIs to TalentCloud health. They deliver rich insights that can be used, both, for realtime tracking and management updates.

TalentCloud dashboards help you track demand and supply growth within each TalentCloud, along with your overall Talent community. This lays down the foundation for strategically planning your workforce.
Opportunity Analytics provide insights into your jobs; talent sources; reasons why jobs were not filled; and the time it took to recommend, hire and onboard candidates.
An array of rich charts and graphs allow you to not only measure the performance of your team and program, but can also project how many resources need to be pipelined to achieve your objectives.

Sarabjot Kaur | Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Sarabjot drives the overall product vision, strategy and growth for facilitating engagements between big data talent and enterprises. She is passionate about disrupting traditional models of consulting in a deeply fragmented analytics and BI market. Sarabjot draws upon fourteen years of experience in creating enterprise value; innovating new business models; brand positioning; digital marketing; and using technology to translate business complexities into actionable strategic solutions. Before joining Experfy, Sarabjot co-founded Academic Room, a platform that curates data within communities of practice and used by academics from over 200 countries.

As the CEO of a Boston-based digital agency, she was responsible for a broad portfolio of clients such as Harvard University, EMC, Computer Associates, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During the course of her career, she has contributed significantly to over fifty software projects, and interactive products. She has also served in various strategic and consulting positions at Citgroup, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and Fidelity eBusiness. At Fidelity eBusiness, she helped build the industry's first web-based wealth-management platform that brings together portfolio management, CRM, financial planning, portfolio rebalancing and trading into one unified workstation. Sarabjot has a Master's of Science degree in Applied Sciences from CCSHAU, India and digital marketing training from Rhode Island School of Design.