About us

DST Profiler Ltd is part of the Data Science Talent group of companies led and owned by Damien Deighan

Our mission

To help companies build effective Data Science teams and help Data Science & Engineering professionals advance their careers. We will make recruitment easier for the Data Science Community by improving the hiring process.

Why Data Science Talent was established

Founder Damien Deighan was frustrated with the state of recruitment. He felt that recruitment consultants were seen as an extra pair of hands who fired off resumes to companies behind with hiring.

Generally, these recruiters added little value other than presenting CVs and doing the basic qualification of suitability. They were poor at understanding the jobs, marketing the jobs and even worse at assessment.

Damien believed that a recruitment consultant should add value in both candidate attraction and assessment – and on 1 August 2016, Data Science Talent was born. The company was set up to advance the role of the recruitment consultant by improving how companies hire. He wanted a recruitment company to offer a robust attraction and assessment capability that benefits both the hiring manager, and the job seeker.

The Data Science Talent Story

In the beginning, Damien immersed himself and his team in the Data Science sector to understand it better than any other recruiter. They attended hackathons with clients and industry events such as ODSC. It became clear that two big problems existed in Data Science hiring:

1) There were no universally-agreed definitions of the different roles in a Data Science team.

2) There were no clearly aligned job descriptions, job marketing and candidate profiling systems in tech recruitment. In Data Science, this problem was even worse because of the varied skillsets involved and the diverse backgrounds of Data Scientists.

Damien had previous experience in using and selling different profiling systems and realised that he could design something similar for Data Science – but with deeper capabilities than these other relatively superficial tools.Over two years, Damien developed the DST Profiler®. The DST Profiler® is a map and set of fundamentals that concisely sets out the discipline of Data Science and Engineering to create better outcomes for both the hiring company and the job seeker.

The platform creates transparency for both sides of the hiring equation. When presented with the results, many job-seekers have thanked us for not wasting their time with a job interview process where the role isn’t right or doesn’t develop skills in their strongest areas.