Relink is developing a recommendation engine to transform how people are matched with jobs. Their solution uses machine learning to analyze job descriptions and candidate profiles to provide recommended matches. As a data-first company, they focus on gathering large amounts of data and applying machine learning models at scale. Their goal is to use these recommendation capabilities to potentially reinvent the entire experience of finding jobs or colleagues.

1. Transforming the way people are
matched with jobs
Relink
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hello@relinklabs.com
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Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

2. • Just not efficient
• Limitations to our processing capabilities
• The talent ecosystem is changing fast - becoming hard to keep
up and understand context
Why transform? Some of the challenges
“it all starts and stops with people”
We decided to build a recommendation engine were the job
descriptions becomes the search query.
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
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sh@relinklabs.com
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invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

3. • Profiles and job descriptions - augmentation
• Interaction between “profiles and jobs”
• Our solution: build network effect and create transparency -
recommendations as a service (or - a quick win in the “sexy category)
Our “super matchmaker” needs data, data and more data
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
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sh@relinklabs.com
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invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

4. A job is published in an ATS - our tech provides:
• A feed of recommended candidates
• Analysis of incoming applications
Ok, so what do we sell
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hello@relinklabs.com
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sh@relinklabs.com
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invest@relinklabs.com
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Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

5. Our recommendation capabilities and the data we harvest can (potentially)
reinvent the whole experience of finding your next job or colleague
We believe that has huge implications
To make this happen - we are a data-first company
Data-first company
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
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sh@relinklabs.com
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invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

6. • Computer science background
• PhD in Machine Learning
• Worked in digital advertising tech, cyber-security & academia
• Lead data scientist at Relink
• DS/ML architecture
• Bridging the gap between DS and production
• Product development
Bio - Bjarne Ø. Fruergaard
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

7. Product development
Idea
Measure
ImplementProfit
Machine learning
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

8. Product development
Idea
Measure
ImplementProfit
Machine learning
Idea
Measure
ImplementProfit
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

9. 1. Hire a data scientist
A day in the life
3. Get disappointed
2. “Please improve our product, but do not interfere with delivery”
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

10. accessible, easy and fast
should not interfere with delivery
modular pipelines
model repository
execute (& train?) models live
measure KPIs live
A/B testing live
pending all of the above
• Gather data
• Bulk read, long-running, resource intensive
• Apply modeling
• To a lesser extend, develop models and/or algorithms
• Execute experiments
• Often on a fixed dataset
• Measuring for model selection, not KPIs directly
• Follow state-of-the-art (or invent it)
The work of a <insert-title-here>
Data scientist, ML engineer, DS/ML/AI researcher, etc.
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

11. Architecture
Or: How you learn to stop
worrying and love the data
Part I
λ (lambda) architecture
• Immutable event store
• Functions over all data at once
Batch layer:
Periodically updates functions over all data
Speed layer:
Real time updates functions over latest data
Serving layer:
batch + speed
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

12. λ
• Immutable event store
• Functions over all data at once
Batch layer:
Periodically updates functions over all data
Speed layer:
Real time updates functions over latest data
Serving layer:
batch + speed
Operational benefits
• avoid incremental state
• fault tolerance
• easier to scale horizontally
Data scientists
• bulk and streaming access
• no interference with delivery
• create, extend and compose “functions”
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

13. Competences
Or: How you learn to stop
worrying and love the data
Part II
Efficient data science
Engineers: implementation, modularity,
monitoring, tech stack, scalability,
testability, etc.
Designers, social sciences, product
owners, UX, UI
• throughput
• stay up to date
• ideas
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

14. • Never as simple as first thought
• Ship code and start measuring
• Be able to compare alternatives
• Improve and invent
• Chickens and eggs
• Long-term investment
• Needs to be core to business value
• Can you experiment and measure?
• Understand what data scientists are not
• Support process before scaling DS
• Keep an eye on tech
No free lunch :-)
Idea
Measure
ImplementProfit
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

15. We’re hiring :-)
http://relinklabs.breezy.hr
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark

16. Questions?
CONTACT
hello@relinklabs.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
sh@relinklabs.com
INVESTOR INQUIRIES
invest@relinklabs.com
ADDRESS
Njalsgade 19D, 2300 København S, Denmark
Contact us:
Ståle Fredlund Husby, CEO, sh@relinklabs.com
Bjarne Ø. Fruergaard, Head of Data Science, bf@relinklabs.com