Strength of connections

When you look at connected talent or use your connection filters on a live role or pipeline, you will notice that you may have hundreds or thousands of connections. Where on earth to begin? How do we save you time to find the most pertinent candidates connected to your colleagues?

This is where strength of connections comes in.

We rank every single one of your connections by a formula that calculates how long they worked with a candidate in a previous firm and what the size of that firm is. For example if a candidate worked for 5 years together with a colleague of yours in a firm size of 20, they will likely be a lot more connected than a candidate who has worked with a colleague of yours for 2 years in a firm size of 200.

Not only that, we layer on top of that if the connections have a similar practice area and from that we can glean if it's possible that they worked in a similar team or area of practice.

When looking at your talent list on your live role or pipeline, the profiles that have the strongest connection to someone at your firm will be at the top. This may mean that these profiles either worked together with a colleague of yours for a number of years or worked together in a very small firm and/or share the same area of practice.

You can see how strongly profiles are connected by checking the score column.

By clicking on the connection arrow beside the connection icon you can then see how they are connected.

You can also quickly find those profiles that have a strong, medium or weak connection by clicking on the Connection Score filter under Connected Workplace.

Put simply, we're using maths to determine how likely it may be that a potential candidate knows a colleague of yours.

The general rule of thumb is a strong connection will be a potential candidate who worked for a number of years with a colleague of yours in a medium firm or worked for only a year together in a very small firm. A strong connection could also be a candidate who worked with a colleague of yours in a large firm for many years (say 5 or more years) and with a similar practice area.

A weak connection may be a potential candidate who worked with a colleague of yours for only a couple of months in medium to large firm.

Once you're happy with the profile and strength of that connection you may request a referral to your colleague to make contact with your candidate of interest.

More about referrals here.

We will be adding other criteria such as PAE and how similar the PAE is to a connection and how recently connections worked together.