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Talent Scout - AI Powered Candidate Finder

Talent Scout is an intelligent Apify Actor designed to help recruiters and hiring managers find the best developer talent across multiple platforms. It combines automated web scraping with AI-powered evaluation to deliver a ranked list of relevant candidates.

Features

• Multi-Platform Search: Scrapes candidate profiles from sources like LinkedIn, GitHub, and Twitter/X
• AI Ranking: Uses an LLM (requires API key) to evaluate and rank candidates based on your specific job description.
• Skill Matching: Automatically identifies and highlights matched skills from your required and nice-to-have lists.
• Structured Output: Returns a clean, structured JSON dataset including candidate names, profiles, scores, and summaries.

Input Parameters

The actor accepts the following input parameters in JSON format:

Input Example

{
"jobTitle":"Senior Python Backend Engineer",
"jobDescription":"We are looking for an expert in Python and Django with experience in high-scale systems...",
"requiredSkills":["Python","Django","PostgreSQL"],
"niceToHave":["AWS","Kubernetes"],
"location":"Berlin",
"sources":["linkedin","github"],
"enableRanking":true,
"maxCandidates":50,
"topK":10
}

Output

The actor stores results in the default Apify Dataset. Each item represents a ranked candidate:

{
"name":"Jane Doe",
"score":85,
"rank":1,
"summary":"Strong candidate with 7+ years of Python experience...",
"jobTitle":"Senior Python Backend Engineer",
"searchLocation":"Berlin",
"isRanked":true,
"matchedSkills":["Python","Django","AWS","PostgreSQL"],
"profileUrls":{
"linkedin":"https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe",
"github":"https://github.com/janedoe"
},
"source":"linkedin",
"location":{
"linkedinText":"Berlin, Germany",
"countryCode":"DE"
},
"searchTimestamp":"2023-10-27T10:00:00+00:00"
}

Usage

You can can run this actor programmatically using the Apify API or Client:

/* Example using Apify Client for JavaScript */
import{ ApifyClient }from'apify-client';
const client =newApifyClient({token:'YOUR_API_TOKEN'});
const input ={
jobTitle:'DevOps Engineer',
// ... other parameters
};
const run =await client.actor('your-username/talent-scout').call(input);
console.log('Results installed in dataset:', run.defaultDatasetId);