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 installed it will appear on your Chrome Toolbar. Using it is simple. When you…
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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 aspects of programming), undertook the most comprehensive developer survey ever conducted. They asked over 56,000 coders…
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% of the online population now on social media, it has never been easier to find and source…
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 a LinkedIn sourcing group asking if you could efficiently transfer your connections’ birthdays (on…
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 Ventures, Okapi Ventures, and several notable angel investors including Sean Ellis, Andrew Chen, Jonathan Downey, and James Hong. Early…
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 think that SourceCon is one of those great destinations. But what should you be reading…
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 since 2009 and Yahoo Pipes has even been shared during multiple SourceCon Lab sessions. In 2013, Aaron…
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 do not consider them to be “the” primary searching databases of software engineers. What I do consider…
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 browser’s abilities. Specifically, I was using it as a developer platform, experimenting with the…
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. Nonetheless, it’s still a good source of tech talent. Here, I’m covering how you can:
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 from your favorite recruiting and technology blogs during the week. With that in mind, I…
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 find software engineers, X-ray GitHub to find software engineers, find developers based on…
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 constraints with the free version? Well here it is – currently, the free version…
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 info: command is great. You can see a list of “advanced” search operators/functions…
Free Tool Friday: How to Find Email Addresses with Social Site List Buster by @DeanDaCosta
Earlier this month, Dean DaCosta shared a video demo of Guru List Buster. Today he’s walking us through how to use Social Site List Buster. Both of these products are normally sold together for $21. However, I just noticed that they…
If Your Site Isn’t Mobile Friendly, You Could Lose Big Starting Today
Editor’s note: We know, our site isn’t mobile friendly at this time. We’re working hard on our new site that will launch very soon. 🙂 Sometime today your website, the one you worked so hard to get on Google’s first…
A Recruiter’s Guide to Sourcing Twitter by @FindSouth
To recruit on Twitter the most important skills are learning how to find other users to track (stalk!), contact, and engage. As a new user, learning to do this on Twitter can be tricky and time consuming. This post provides an introduction to key…
How To Get Around WHOIS Email Proxies by @getreqt
WHOIS Lookups are a great way to get contact information for candidates with their own internet domain. If you’ve never utilized a WHOIS Lookup, you’re basically querying a database for information about who registered a specific website. Why would you…
Video Demo by @DeanDaCosta: Find Email Addresses Online With Guru List Buster
On Fridays, we normally have the Free Tool Friday Series. Today, we’re showing a tool that costs $21 so we’ll leave the “Free” part out of the title. This demo by Dean DaCosta walks us through how to use Guru List…
The 1 Chrome Extension to Rule Them All by @GBhambra
If you’re anything like me you’ll have a ton of Google Chrome extensions. Ever since I learnt about the power and usefulness of using extensions to help source passive talent, nothing will ever make me go back to using an…