Despite the advancement of technology with the invention of AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics, hiring is still a pretty painful process for many. According to the State Of Sourcing Survey, increased hiring volume coupled with stagnant recruiter headcount means that the most important trends for recruiters to learn about are tools and technology.
Conversation is king when it comes to recruitment. It’s about conversing with people and selling your brief or your organization. To create more time for this, sourcing techniques need to be much faster and more efficient. It is said that in order to win a race where everyone is driving the same car, you need to have some secrets under the hood.
Below are 8 turbo boost extensions that will help to improve your talent sourcing;
1. Copy Link Address
Checking candidate’s data has become somewhat of a reflex for most recruiters, scanning through a great deal of information on the web in only minutes. This extension makes copying and pasting website addresses faster than expected. As opposed to doing it the old school way.
2. EfTwo
This extension allows you to turn on highlighting for all of the terms you’ve searched for in the Google Toolbar. When you highlight your search terms with EfTwo, you can rapidly access profiles for skills as they bounce off the page in different colors for all the distinctive terms you’ve searched for. This works on ALL web-pages and not just Google or Bing.
3. Dux-Soup
Dux-Soup acts like a virtual assistant and has many features to make your sourcing less demanding and faster. It monitors each and every profile you visit and enables you to make notes directly on the profile page which are saved. Profile date and notes can be exported as a CSV file which can be opened in Microsoft Excel. The CSV file includes data such as the name of the individual whose profile you visited, job title, organization name, location, email, and notes. Dux-Soup will save you hours of manual data entry when it comes to tracking all the leads you interact with.
4. Multi-highlight
This extension will let you identify words that are important to you on any web page and the new tabs you open. For example, you search to pull Software Engineers that have experience with Java. But, let’s say the hiring manager prefers experience with Kotlin. You can open Multi-highlight and add Kotlin or Java and a highlight will appear on the results page. This can key you into the results that would have a higher interest and you get to examine those results first.
5. AutoPager
With AutoPager extension you don’t have to worry about “next paging”, as the next page of your search loads on the bottom, so you can just keep scrolling. If you get annoyed with constantly scrolling, this extension will be super convenient. If you’re going to use it when searching for LinkedIn profiles, a piece of advice is to right-click each profile you want to investigate, open it in a new tab and then go back to your search.
6. Glossary Tech
This is a great extension for both in-house recruiters and agency recruiters. Suppose you have a new job requisition and are not familiar with a certain tech term. Download this extension and hover over tech-related terms on a LinkedIn profile. This tool will then define and suggest other keywords to search for. It’s a huge time saver.
7. Clipboard History 2
We all know how frustrating it can be when you think you’ve got something saved on your clipboard, only to find you overwrote it with something else. This extension solves the problem. It keeps the majority of your clipboard’s history for a pre-set number of days, enabling you to rollback to any item on the list.
8. PageMonitor
Do you want a quick way to pick up leads before everyone else? PageMonitor will notify you when a particular webpage that you want to keep an eye on changes. At the point when a new vacancy is posted, you’ll be the first to know.
There are many hacks out there to make your sourcing work easier and faster. The above browser extensions are a great way to help boost your sourcing activities. Whether it is for sourcing or just for personal use, these are all very useful tools that can support you. Most of them are free to use, so you can find out whether or not it’s the right solution for your organization. Try them out and begin outracing your competition.
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