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About Bayt.com
Bayt.com, the leading job board in the Middle East and North Africa, has been connecting over 49 million job seekers with more than 40,000 employers for over 20 years. Bayt.com offers a complete range of end-to-end employment solutions and career planning tools. With thousands of new job vacancies listed every day from the region's top employers, Bayt.com stands out as the region's largest hub for both professionals seeking employment and companies looking to hire. Bayt.com processes approximately 6.5 million resumes every year for over 200 clients.
The Challenge
Bayt.com faced a significant challenge with the quality and correctness of data being extracted from the millions of resumes that they process every year. As the Middle East’s #1 job site, accurate data extraction was crucial for their operations. Bayt.com recognised the need for a solution that could offer higher accuracy than their current provider. Additionally, due to Bayt.com's strict compliance, privacy, and security requirements, they needed a self-hosted solution. Their sensitive data processing couldn't be entrusted to cloud-based services, making it essential to find a technology that could be deployed within their own infrastructure. This dual challenge of improving accuracy while maintaining stringent data security standards prompted Bayt.com to explore Affinda's Resume Parser.
Bayt.com's Business Requirements
- Improve the accuracy and quality of data extracted from resumes
- Reduce the onboarding time for jobseekers by increasing the amount of information extracted
- Implement a customisable solution that could be self-hosted to meet their specific needs
- Reduce the need for manual data entry by candidates
The Solution
After an intensive proof-of-concept testing period, Bayt.com chose Affinda’s Resume Parser due to its impressive results, flexible pricing structure, and crucially, its self-hosting capabilities. Affinda's Resume Parser self-hosted solution provided a self-contained instance of their document parsing API, designed specifically for environments with stringent compliance, privacy, and security requirements. This allowed Bayt.com to deploy the solution to their own self-managed infrastructure, ensuring all resume processing was performed strictly within their controlled environment. This approach ensured data localisation, keeping their customers' data exclusively within the Middle East.
The deployment of Affinda's self-hosting resume parser, combined with its advanced data extraction features, significantly improved the accuracy and thoroughness of information extracted from resumes, while meeting Bayt.com’s strict security standards and improving Bayt.com’s operations. As a result, Bayt.com was able to help jobseekers reduce their onboarding time by 40%, thanks to the increased amount of information extracted and the higher accuracy of structured information provided.
A key benefit of Affinda's solution was the substantial reduction in manual data entry required from candidates. The additional fields captured by Affinda's Resume Parser meant that more information could be automatically extracted from resumes, eliminating the need for job seekers to manually input much of this data. This not only saved time for candidates but also reduced the likelihood of errors that can occur during manual data entry.
These improvements not only enhanced the efficiency of Bayt.com's services but also greatly improved the experience for both job seekers and employers using their job board. Job seekers benefit from a more streamlined application process, while employers receive more comprehensive and accurate candidate information. All of these advancements were achieved while maintaining the highest levels of data security and compliance, ensuring that sensitive personal information remains protected throughout the process.
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