--- title: "Expert-Labeled Data Release: September & October 2025 | Findem" description: "Explore Findem’s expert-labeled data updates for September and October 2025, including new Success Signals across finance, engineering, funding journeys, personal traits, and executive experience." url: "https://www.findem.ai/blog/insights-expert-labeled-data-september-october-2025" --- # Expert-labeled data release for September and October 2025 ← Back to blog Madeline Andrews Head of Insights November 20, 2025 Findem has released a new wave of expert-labeled attributes for September and October 2025, expanding how talent teams understand people across finance, engineering, achievements, personal traits, funding journeys, and other high-impact dimensions of work. These attributes come from Findem’s data labeling engine — the largest expert-labeled system of its kind — which produces the Success Signals that reveal a person’s real capabilities, trajectory, and potential. This foundation sets Findem apart and directly strengthens how teams identify, evaluate, and engage the right talent. Most HR tech relies solely on general-purpose AI trained on surface-level data. Findem adds deeper company context and multi-layered structure to reveal the specific skills and attributes that matter for hiring decisions. These Success Signals highlight real indicators of performance and growth instead of relying on self-reported information. Success Signals solve this problem by surfacing validated patterns behind a person’s impact: promotions, expanding scope, company growth, stage experience, leadership behaviors, ecosystem involvement, and hundreds of other context clues that don’t appear in keyword searches. By converting these patterns into structured, expert-labeled attributes at scale, Findem gives talent teams a more complete and precise view of people across the entire market. This release adds new depth and breadth across millions of professionals. ## Deeper coverage of finance and engineering roles ### Wealth and retail finance roles New role attributes provide far more precise segmentation across advisory, planning, and financial sales functions. - **439K+** professionals tagged with Director of Wealth Management experience - **2M+** within the Financial Consultant family These pools enable more targeted financial-services searches by specialization, seniority, and customer segment. ### Civil engineering roles Civil Engineer attributes now cover **1M+** professionals across infrastructure, construction, environmental engineering, and related domains. This strengthens searches for highly specialized engineering talent. ## Career momentum, timing, and promotion signals ### Recently promoted talent These attributes identify people who have earned a promotion within the last three years — a reliable marker of strong performance and forward momentum. - **2M+** recently promoted engineers - **558K+** recently promoted product professionals Rising talent like this tends to be high-performing, high-growth, and still early enough in their trajectory to be reachable. ## Funding journey and transaction experience ### LBO and MBO experience **7M** professionals now show experience at companies that went through leveraged or management buyouts — particularly valuable for private-equity operating teams and transformation-focused hiring. ### Seed through late-stage startup experience New attributes cover people who have been part of companies as they moved through major funding rounds. - **122K+** from Seed to Series C - **10K+** from Seed to Series F These attributes spotlight candidates who understand the pace, pressure, and demands of fast-growth environments. ## Geography, schools, and ecosystem expertise ### Likely to relocate to St. Louis More than **1M** candidates show professional or personal ties that indicate openness to relocating to St. Louis — offering clearer paths for location-based searches. ### Top US sales schools **3M** candidates are now tagged with education from top US sales programs, improving targeting for sales roles where academic grounding matters. ### Solana and Web3 ecosystem A new attribute identifies roughly **5,400** contributors to major Solana ecosystem projects such as Jupiter, Jito, Kamino Finance, and Raydium — ideal for blockchain and DeFi teams needing exact-match technical experience. ## Executive experience ### Public company CFOs A dedicated attribute now surfaces about **219K** current or former public-company CFOs, helping organizations quickly find seasoned financial leaders with public-market and governance experience. ## Personal traits and behavioral signals ### Interest in sports More than **42M** candidates show participation, coaching, or mentoring in sports settings — often used as an indicator of teamwork, resilience, and competitive drive. ### Learning and Trust Two new traits with **72M+** candidates add richer depth to behavioral understanding: - **Learning:** Candidates showing clear investment in self-development and ongoing growth - **Trust:** Candidates with patterns tied to reliability, ethics, and dependability These traits are especially valuable for roles requiring judgment, collaboration, and consistency. ## Putting these attributes to work All attributes in this release are now live across Findem’s [Talent Data Cloud](https://www.findem.ai/platform) and available in search, matching, rediscovery, insights, and sourcing workflows. Whether you need operators with high-growth experience, newly promoted engineers, PE-ready talent, ecosystem specialists, or proven executives, these Success Signals bring more accuracy and insight into every pipeline. When your AI is powered by verified, expert-labeled data instead of self-reported profiles, your team moves faster and makes decisions with more confidence. Want to see how these new attributes can strengthen your talent strategy? [Request a demo](https://www.findem.ai/request-demo) to explore how Findem’s data-labeling engine and Success Signals help you hire people who fit your role, your stage, and your culture. ## Recommended next reads October 9, 2026 ### [Your market map takes 7 to 14 days. 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