Candidate Enrichment

For this recipe, you’ll need to have an existing dataset of candidate profiles, which we will then enrich with PDL’s Person Dataset.

This is your existing list of candidates that you have already collected. This could be anything from a simple text document with names and emails up to a full enterprise Applicant Tracking System (and everything in between). The only requirement is that your dataset contains some amount of information for each candidate that can be used for matching.

People Data Labs’ flagship person dataset is perfect for enriching candidate profiles. It contains hundreds of millions of professional records from across the world, complete with hundreds of attributes including work and education experience, contact information, skills, certifications and more. This dataset is accessible in a variety of ways, including as an API or a bulk data file.

If you expect to enrich less than ~8,000 candidates per month, then use our self-serve dashboard to set up an API key and purchase credits for the Person Enrichment API (we offer 100 free credits per month to all users).

For larger volumes, speak with a data consultant who can help up an enterprise account with a lower cost per credit.

Ensure that you are standardizing your inputs before matching against the Person records (i.e. lower-casing and trimming whitespace).

Additionally, if you have set up a lot of required parameters, you may be filtering out a lot of profiles. If your match rates are too low for your goals, we recommend limiting the required fields to just the most important ones.