2025/04/03 by Vladimir Slaykovskiy, Maksim Zvegintsev, Slaykovskiy, Vladimir +5
Business, Management and Accounting · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Big Data and Business Intelligence #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.02463
openalex publication_date 2025/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This study introduces a benchmarking methodology designed to evaluate the performance of AI-driven recruitment sourcing tools. We created and utilized a dataset to perform a comparative analysis of search results generated by leading AI-based solutions, LinkedIn Recruiter, and our proprietary system, Pearch.ai. Human experts assessed the relevance of the returned candidates, and an Elo rating system was applied to quantitatively measure each tool's comparative performance. Our findings indicate that AI-driven recruitment sourcing tools consistently outperform LinkedIn Recruiter in candidate relevance, with Pearch.ai achieving the highest performance scores. Furthermore, we found a strong alignment between AI-based evaluations and human judgments, highlighting the potential for advanced AI technologies to substantially enhance talent acquisition effectiveness. Code and supporting data are publicly available at https://github.com/vslaykovsky/ai-sourcing-benchmark