Glossary
AI sourcing
AI sourcing is finding candidates by describing the role in plain language and letting a model surface semantically similar profiles. It finds people whose vocabulary you would not have guessed. It misses people who wrote very little about themselves, which is the same group Boolean already missed.
Related terms
Boolean searchBoolean search finds candidates by combining keywords with operators such as AND, OR and NOT.Semantic searchSemantic search finds results by meaning rather than by matching exact words.X-Ray searchX-Ray search uses a general search engine to look inside a specific site, most often LinkedIn, using a site: operator.