I had the opportunity to present at SourceCon Digital with Mike Cohen “Batman!” during the round table session. We spoke about the latest trending tools on the market. Overall, we had a great discussions within the group and was able give some solid Q&A tips on sourcing success. 

About the Speakers:

Mike “Batman” Cohen is the Founder of Wayne Technologies, a Contract Sourcing and Recruitment Training Organization. His approach to sourcing is one based on deliverables, transparent data, and using multiple sources/platforms to find the greatest diversity and quality of candidates. He has worked with a diverse group of clients including: Whole Foods, The New York Times, Waste Management, GIPHY, Walter P. Moore, etc. He contributes articles to SourceCon and RecruitingDaily, helps run SourceHouston, is a Brand Ambassador for ERE, and an Executive Board Member on ATAP (Association for Talent Acquisition Professionals).

Jonathan Kidder, AKA the “WizardSourcer,” is a top-ranked technical talent sourcing recruiter, staffing expert, and corporate trainer who assists organizations of all sizes in identifying and attracting top talent. A wizard at harnessing the power of social networking, Boolean strings, search aggregators, deep web searching, scrapers, and other advanced technology tricks and tools. In 2015, he founded a recruiting blog called WizardSourcer. Which has become one of leading knowledge resources for recruiters online. His missions is simple: To help Recruiters and Talent Sourcers stay updated on the latest sourcing trends within our community.

Presentation:

Back by popular demand is the dedicated room for SOURCING TOOLS. Mike and Jonathan bring many years of experience and will cover some fantastic tools below.

AI Sourcing:

SeekOut – ai Sourcing Assistant automatically finds more candidates just like them that you can easily add to your project.

Hiretual – strategically find untapped talent from platforms beyond LinkedIn like GitHub, Stack Overflow, Kaggle, and many more.

ENGAGE Talent – discover new passive candidate pools and be the first to engage them, at the right time, with the right message key talent

Loxo Source – quickly add candidates to Loxo from LinkedIn, Indeed, Angelist and GitHub with the click of a button. Message send automate emails and SMS text messages.

WhoKnows – find the best talent with AI-assisted search.

Intro.io – an AI powered email automation platform.

Technology Recruitment:

Humanpredictions – compile all the data for your potential candidates and automatically alert you about people we know information about.

AmazingHiring – chrome Extension is a professional sourcing tool that finds tech specialists’ social media profiles, contacts and information about the professional background .

Chatbot & Texting:

XOR.ai -a  platform for recruiters to communicate with candidates directly over text messaging or any other messaging app.

SimpleTexting – mass texting – automation.

Rectxt – the most simple and affordable text recruiting software on the market.

PushBullet – this extension allows you to receive and send messages directly from Chrome.

Sourcing Acceleration:

ZapInfo – (Scraping + AI + Automation + Messaging Platform).

UiPath – discover automation opportunities powered by AI and your people.

Phatombuster – automating sourcing tasks via api’s.

Behavioral Analytics:

Humantelligence -deliver qualified candidates that will be engaged and remain in their role.

Crystal Knows – as a pioneer in Personality AI, Crystal analyzes millions of online data points to accurately identify personality.

Scheduling Automation:

Calendy – schedule meetings without the back and forth emails.

X.ai – email scheduling automation.

Contact Finding Tools:

Social List – is a tool to instantly build lists of target social profiles, matching your search parameters, such as locations, employers, and job titles.

PiplPro – the best search engine for finding cell phone numbers online.

Swordfish – a top rated contact finding extension.

Nymeria – great extension for finding emails.

SignalHire – another great extension for finding emails.

Improver – fairly new on the market. Still worth reviewing.

Homemetry – find cell numbers based off home addresses in North America.

PrecontactTool – a great extension for finding cell numbers online.

Email Automation:

Gem (ZenSourcer) – a drip email automation platform.

BoomBoom – an awesome platform to send videos over email.

Email Validation:

ZeroBounce – great tools to bulk verify emails.

Snovio – a great experience that helps and validate corporate emails well.

Candidate Experience:

Evabot –– virtual gifting bot.

StickerApp — sending custom stickers.

Productivity / Organization:

Multi-Highlight Tool – highlight keywords on a page.

Tab Wrangler – manage a mass list of tabs all at once.

Stylish – Color –  code pages to save important web pages.

Save to Pocket – creating easy short cuts.

EverNote – note taking app.

EfTwo – mass searching keywords quicker on pages.

AutoPager – search web pages quicker.

Page Monitor – monitor pages — for updates including LinkedIn profiles.

Copy Link Address – copy link address without right-clicking. Just hover the link and hit Ctrl-C.

Toby Extension – organizing browser tabs.

Extensity — managing a mass list of extension tools.

Tomato Timer – a daily time tracking extension tool.

Conclusion + Resources 

1. Free list of Boolean Strings
2. Recruiter Templates List
3. Recruiting Tools List