It takes a lot of up front investment for a company to recruit and hire a candidate. On average it takes my team around 130-150 days to fill an active position. It takes a lot of time and effort to search, screen, and to get an applicant through the full-cycle process. For certain niche roles, I’m working 10+ hour days for weeks before I see any return on my effort. That’s why every single hour is important when it comes to finding and sourcing the best available talent online. Investing in a recruiting tool that makes you more efficient will help you produce better results more quickly.
I’ve worked with the most elite Sourcers from the largest Tech companies and RPO staffing firms. These seasoned Recruiters have given me their top recommendations for recruiting tools that they use. There are many categories that a recruiting tool can assist with: Automation, Scraping, App Scheduling, Email, Video, and Contact-Finding to name a few. I’ve compiled a list of suggestions for each individual category below.
Here’s the Best Recruiting Tools voted by our community
1. SeekOut (Contact Finding/Email Outreach)
Known for being extremely recruiter-friendly, Seekout is a platform that allows you to easily source passive candidates with the help of diversity filters. Other features, like getting contact info in just one click, also help Seekout stand out from the crowd. With a 360-degree view of the talent, Seekout provides a rich database like no other. The AI-powered Seekout robot also helps you get to the right talent as quickly as possible. In my opinion SeekOut is one of the best contact finding, searching, and email outreach platforms tools available for Recruiters.
2. Hired/Vettery (Tech Database)
Vettery and Hired are both Tech search database sites. Vettery recently acquired Hired.com in 2020. I’m sure they will be combining databases making it one of the largest networks online besides LinkedIn.
The team at Vettery attracts and engages candidates to sign up for this platform. They only allow candidates who are “actively open” to a new role to join the platform. A majority of the candidates are mid to senior level with an average of 6+ years of professional experience. The platform does not focus on bootcamp or entry level candidates. They have roughly 90k active users within the platform and continuously add new leads every Monday morning. They are currently in over 22 Cities across the globe. Overall, their leads are primarily in the Tech, Finance, and Sales space.
3. Gem (Email Outreach)
You can use this Chrome extension and dashboard tool to build lists, capture candidate information, find email, reach out, and upload to your applicant tracking system all alongside LinkedIn. You can more than double your response rate by sending both InMail and automated email out reaches. Track views, clicks, and positive replies for email and InMail to test subject lines, templates, and even time of day. Never reach out to the same person twice. Share talent maps, review candidates, and send on behalf of hiring managers. This is one of the best email outreach tools for Recruiters.
4. Phatombuster (Automation)
If you’re not familiar with Phantombuster, they create powerful automations that can help cut down on your manual work as a recruiter. When it comes to what you do on LinkedIn, specifically, these tasks will save you a substantial amount of time. I’ve chosen my top 11 tasks to showcase in this post (here). There’s many things that you can do with this tool from automating outreaches, to managing social media, to scraping information online.
5. Textio (Job Description)
Textio is made for a number of uses, and one of the most popular is to help employees find better words to attract the right applicants. It will predict how the things you write will help you attract talent and make suggestions to help you find better qualified and more diverse (BLNA) candidates.
Ultimately, it will cut down the time you spend writing and the Textio Score will help you predict how well the description will perform in the current job market. Recruiters use this tool to fully optimize your job descriptions and email outreaches to applicants.
6. Crystal Knows (Data Analytics)
Predict anyone’s personality with the Crystal Chrome extension. Get insider information on a candidate based on their social media presence. You use information to your advantage when you are doing cold outreaches. Use the data to understand all their motivators to get them to respond to your recruitment outreaches. This tool is scary accurate and has helped me engage with many leads.
7. TalentNeuron (Market Intel)
TalentNeuron combines big data and statistical insights to provide global talent, location and competitive intelligence for any industry or function. When I had access to this platform at my previous company it really had an impact on sourcing and hiring decisions. We could use this data to understand market trends and see what our competitors were doing. Below is what the market tool offers:
Actionable: Minimize effort to interpret data through streamlined, value-oriented user experience.
Insightful: Leverage Gartner’s functional and analytical expertise to inform strategic talent decisions with labor market data.
Accurate: Rely on the highest-quality real-time labor market data in the industry across all major global markets.
Here’s market intelligence map created by TalentNueron
Overall, I recommend that you demo each of these recruiting tools. These are the best available options for each tool category based on a community of voters.
Bonus: I created and developed my own browser extension called RecruiterWand. It’s a free tool that auto-populates recruiter templates with a candidate public LinkedIn profile. I strongly recommend downloading it if you haven’t already!←
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