We are now able to match on average 107% more employees of companies via the newly revamped Employee Listing Endpoint.
The endpoint now matches employees based on the platform company numerical ID and company name, not just the the platform company profile URL.
Match type Previously Revamped Example
the platform company profile URL ✅ ✅ https://www.professionalsocialnetwork.com/company/walmart/
the platform company numerical ID ❌ ✅ https://www.professionalsocialnetwork.com/company/2646/
Company name ❌ ✅ Walmart, Walmart USA
Take for example, this is Walmart's employee count based on the previous vs newly-revamped matching algorithm:
- Previously:
378,164 - Revamped:
456,819
The results?
A nice improvement of
78,655count, or 20.8%.
The previous matching algorithm
Previously we only matched company employees by checking if a person listed a company in their work experiences, specifically we only considered them a match if the company profile URL was the same as the target company profile, i.e.:
- https://www.professionalsocialnetwork.com/company/walmart/ & https://www.professionalsocialnetwork.com/company/walmart/ = MATCHED
This approach resulted in more qualified profiles, but fewer results, in most cases about 50% less. However, this is not always what our users need. Some of users prefer more results returned.