Ultimate List of Sourcing Tools to Recruit Tech Talent Online

Jonathan Kidder

6 years ago

Whether you’re looking for programmers, designers, engineers, developers, or just IT pros you need to have the right tools and knowledge to find the best. As a Tech Sourcer myself – I find the need to manage my sourcing and research time efficiently. I’ve put together a list of productivity tools, social networks, Boolean string hacks, and writing tools to help you find and recruit tech candidates online.

Productivity and Automation Tools:

Blockspring – This tool connects different API’s together to help automate certain tasks.

PhantomBuster – Primarily used for marketing automation. There’s a plenty of integrations that allow you to automate various tasks.

Zapier – Is the glue that connects over 1,000+ web apps. These apps connect together to trigger an event. You can use these pre-built zaps to automate mundane recruitment tasks.

IFTTT – Is a free web-based service to create chains of simple conditional statements, called (applets) recipes. These recipes help to automate different tasks. You can use these recipes to automate different recruitment activities.

Airtable – Is a spreadsheet database hybrid tool. It combines the features of a database applied to a spreadsheet and just like IFTTT or Zapier you can link other tools or data to work with each other.

Google Alerts – Basically, you can subscribe to your keyword search directly on Google. As soon as something new gets posted online you will receive an update directly in your email inbox.

Pomodoro Assistant – Track your overall searching time with this extension. Use this to stay focused and organized throughout your day. This tool comes highly recommended by Sarah Goldberg.

Social Networks and Forums:

Reddit – Treat this more like a forum site. There’s plenty of sub-reddits to explore and learn more about niche industries. Some of my favorites: r/WebDev, r/Frontend, r/AskProgramming, r/LearnProgramming, & r/Coding.

Slack – Is a community / community messaging network. You can use this to source and recruit tech talent online.

Facebook – Is the largest untapped social network online today! It’s a fantastic place to source and recruit leads from.

Stack OverFlow – Is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers

GitHub – A places for coders to share open-source software projects online. Overall, it’s a fantastic place to find developers online.

Meetup – Use this to attend different network events in your area. I’ve been able to attend many tech meetups in the past: Xamarin, DevOps, and SAP meetup networking groups.

Good Reads – Great place to source profile information. You can find user data based off what they are currently reading. You can xray for user profiles i.e.: site:goodreads.com/user/show “java”

Boolean:

RecruitEm – Is a Boolean generator tool. It’s very simple and easy to use.

BOOL Extension – Create and save strings with this browser extension. Honestly, it’s one of my favorites in this space.

SourceHub – Build and save different strings with this website based tool.

Hiretual “Boolean Builder” – Build a job description or intake requirements into this tool and it will instantly create a Boolean string. It’s been far the best generator tool online and it’s free.

Writing Tools:

GlossaryTech – This app allows users to quickly see definitions of tech-related keywords. I’ve used this app to quickly understand different types of tech skill-sets.

Grammarly – Is an online grammar checking, spell checking, and plagiarism detection platform.

Joblint – Test job descriptions or recruiter templates for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails.

DeepSense – Helps understand a candidates persona with the help of AI. You can then use this intel to understand how you’ll conduct your outreach i.e phone call, email, social, or text etc.

Textio – This tool unlocks the language that engages them, using real-world hiring outcomes from millions of job posts and recruiting emails.

Crystal Knows – This tool helps you understand a candidates persona and how to engage them over email.

HumanPredictions: This tool will compile a list of data points on any potential candidate online.

Bunch.ai: With the help of AI this tool pulls together a list of attributes based on the candidates social media presence.

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