I’m Misener Wardsworth, System Deployment Engineer at Prime Data Solutions. The best part about SeekOut is its unique semantic search capability that solves our toughest hiring pain: sourcing rare on-prem video communication engineers that standard tools can never find. Before using SeekOut, we relied entirely on **LinkedIn Recruiter** for technical hiring, and it completely failed us during our VideoMost server expansion project earlier this year. We needed a secondary engineer to assist with multi-branch video media routing, private server deployment, and client remote consultation system troubleshooting. For two full months, LinkedIn Recruiter only pushed generic cloud DevOps candidates who had zero exposure to self-hosted VideoMost infrastructure. We interviewed seven people and none could configure media firewall rules or fix cross-site video packet loss. This talent gap forced me to cover double on-call shifts. I had to juggle daily server maintenance, urgent client video fault repairs, and overtime resume screening, which directly delayed our scheduled VideoMost version upgrade for three weeks. After switching to SeekOut, the difference was immediate. Instead of rigid keyword matching, it scans full project backgrounds and technical work histories to dig up passive industry specialists. These are professionals working with on-prem unified communication systems who never post their resumes publicly. I was able to quickly locate candidates with hands-on VideoMost deployment experience, including professionals skilled in media stream tuning and branch network video linkage optimization. I also use SeekOut’s custom tagging and talent folder features to categorize candidates by their server deployment skill level, making it super easy to share sorted shortlists with our HR partner. This tool eliminated our long-term talent sourcing bottleneck, cut down useless resume screening time, and let me refocus my energy on stabilizing our enterprise video server environment and delivering timely technical support for business clients.

I appreciate SeekOut for its ability to provide candidate contact info, especially emails, when reach outs on LinkedIn aren't successful. It's really helpful to get hard-to-find contact info or when I can't figure out the email for a top candidate. Having their email allows me to try a new channel to contact them, which is particularly valuable given that we're limited in the number of reach outs we can do on LinkedIn. Additionally, I found the initial setup of SeekOut to be very easy and straightforward.

I like SeekOut because it makes finding relevant candidates and talent much faster. The search and filtering tools let me narrow down profiles quickly and efficiently, which saves time and keeps my recruiting and talent research more organized and easier to manage.