One of the best sources of information for passive talent and their companies are business news articles. You can learn who does what, what projects their … Read more
Reading Github Profiles When You’re Not An Engineer
Reading Github profiles doesn’t have to be difficult. If you are sourcing technical talent then you have at one point or another, looked at a … Read more
Using TweetBeaver to Extract Data from Twitter
In the past I‘ve tried sourcing candidates from Twitter by manually looking at who followed targeted accounts. This was often tedious, not an effective use … Read more
Engage Talent; The Sourcing Software You Need to Demo
Ever hear of Engage? I mean the software, not engagement which a great deal of us do in this industry. Nope, this is a sort of a search tool on steroids. … Read more
Dean Da Costa Teaches Us How To Find That Lead
Find that Lead, or FTL as it is known, is a chrome extension that can help you find contact information from people’s profiles on LinkedIn. Once … Read more
Three Steps to Creating a Diversified Sourcing Strategy
We’ve all heard the wise words before: You shouldn’t put all of your eggs in one basket. Whether we’re talking about investing our money or sourcing … Read more
Why the Best Recruiters Have Learned to Love Data and Technology
Recruiting is undergoing a technological renaissance. Veteran recruiters remember the advent of primitive databases that housed scanned images of hard-copy … Read more
23 Industry & Candidate Insights Every Tech Recruiter NEEDS to Know
In January 2016, Stack Overflow (one of the biggest online platforms where tech professionals can ask and answer questions of each other regarding all … Read more
3 Talent Acquisition Trends You Need To Know In 2016
This post originally appeared on the Proactive Talent Blog Talent acquisition has undergone a significant transformation in the last five years. With 76% … Read more
How to add Facebook or LinkedIn connections’ birthdays to your recruiting CRM
Note: This post represents my personal views and not necessarily those of my employer. Someone recently forwarded me a question posted about a month ago on … Read more
Candidate Sourcing Tool Connectifier Announces $6 Million Series A Round
Connectifier announced today that they have secured a series A round which brings their funding total to $6 million. Backers include True Ventures, Galeo … Read more
Weekend Reads for the Technically Minded Talent Acquisition Professional
There are a lot of great resources out there for talent acquisition professionals to become better at sourcing and engaging candidates online. I like to … Read more
RIP Yahoo Pipes by @imJeremyR
Yahoo Pipes has been a favorite tool for some of the most technical sourcing professionals for many years. SourceCon writers have discussed the tool … Read more
Advanced Techniques to Source on StackOverflow and Github by @VinceSzy
Disclaimer: GitHub and StackOverflow are amazing resources for tech recruiters. But contrary to the popular tone of most sourcing articles on this topic, I … Read more
Canary is dead – Long live Chromium by @AaronLintz
Rumors of the death of homegrown Chrome extensions have been greatly exaggerated! A few months ago, I was overjoyed when I wrote about the Canary chrome … Read more
How to Find and Engage Tech Candidates on StackOverflow by @VinceSzy
StackOverflow isn’t necessarily a primary source of candidates but a primary information source in your engagement and evaluation of candidates. … Read more
Weekend Reads for the Technically Minded Sourcer or Recruiter
It’s Friday afternoon and the week is coming to a close. High maintenance hiring managers and tough requisitions may have pulled some of you away … Read more
4 Quick Tips to Help You Source More Tech Candidates on Github by @VinceSzy
Do you recruit software engineers? If so, you’re in luck. In this piece, I am going to cover how to: utilize the built-in search engine of GitHub to … Read more
How to create a simple and robust Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) – Part 2 @SteveRath
Editor’s note: See part 1 of this tutorial, which ran in January, here. But wait – there’s more!!!! Welcome back – I mentioned earlier of the … Read more
Quick Sourcing Tip – The “info:” Command by @arron_daniels
One quick tip that is often overlooked is using the Google specific info: command. For a peek at some quick information about a company or website, the … Read more