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An Israeli startup called QTRecruit is looking to put job recruiters out of business, or at least obsolete. QTRecruit was founded by Nir Atsman and Yaron Cohen and evolved from a military project they implemented as part of the Israeli Defense Forces, 8200 unit.
The military project that was the backbone for QTRecruit was designed to automatically decide where in the Israeli army they should place new recruits.
“but the system spiders the Internet, like Google, gathering information about relevant candidates for a client’s open positions. In parallel, the client continuously feeds criteria into the system about the best kinds of candidates. Using some soon-to-be-patented artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning algorithms that we developed, the system learns over time how to find better candidates.” Yaron told website jobmob.co.il about how QTRecruit works.
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Yaron reported that the platform has had an outstanding 80% success rate in placements. He added that the system still can’t factor in how a good candidate will react when competing offers are on the table.
Sounds like a great idea for a startup huh? It’s also somewhat believable with great quotes and the idea that Israeli military software would help scour the internet and find great job recruits. Well further research found that after the story had been picked up by several Isreali and other websites it was just another April Fools Day prank. As you can see below it simply says “QT Recruit April Fools Day” on the website and when you do a whois you find that it was registered on April 1, 2012 by a Jacob Share share.jacob@gmail.com
It wasn’t nearly along the scale of Google’s GMailTap or the YouTube home delivery service.
