The search for talent – a domain model

This is a model I created to present the high level concepts for managing data at an executive search firm. There are two functions to the data: business process management and a knowledge repository. The core entity in the business process is an assignment and the core entities in the knowledge repository are companies and executives. The model shows how to separate out the business process from the knowledge repository and how third party data sources might feed into the repository.

(I created this in 2013 so there may be elements that are out of date.)

At first, I examined the legacy database and established that there were two distinct domains: the assignment process and the knowledge repository of companies and executives. I then considered that none of the core entities (assignment, company, executive) represented the entity that really carried the business value to an executive search enterprise – ‘talent’, that is, the potential performance of an executive. If an executive search enterprise wanted to get into talent analytics, then this was sort of domain model needed to set up the data for insight on the talent market.

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