In a report, done jointly by Randstad, Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) and Open Assembly, 62% of respondents said they currently are or are planning to use a talent platform. Morris said he expects that number to grow because developers skilled in certain modern technology areas are hard to find. With AI doing the initial search for talent, then collecting and analyzing resumes, recruiters are spending less time finding talent than they are now nurturing it, according to Mike Morris, the founder of talent communities Topcoder and Torc. The recruiter/advisor can guide developers on how to upskill in certain areas, how to take assessment tests that increase their value and prove their ability, and even how to turn project engagements into full-time positions. First, he said, Torc takes in data from LinkedIn, parsing out skills and tangential skills for categorization by AI. Next, to assess technical talent, the platform integrates with GitHub to pull in all of their work from the previous 12 months. “We pull in all the ranks from GitHub, GitLab and Hacker and pull in their stats,” Morris said. “So now they said they were good at, say, Java, and look, in the last 12 months, they’ve done 64 pull requests and they were all in the Java programming language, and they did this many code pushes.