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Sourcing Hacks

This document discusses various methods for sourcing candidates online, including both traditional and non-traditional channels. Traditional methods include job boards and social networks like LinkedIn, while non-traditional options cover platforms like GitHub, Stack Overflow, specialized communities, and tools for searching profiles and building custom search strings. Specific techniques are presented for searching LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, and other sites using Boolean logic and other advanced features.

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Sourcing Hacks

This document discusses various methods for sourcing candidates online, including both traditional and non-traditional channels. Traditional methods include job boards and social networks like LinkedIn, while non-traditional options cover platforms like GitHub, Stack Overflow, specialized communities, and tools for searching profiles and building custom search strings. Specific techniques are presented for searching LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, and other sites using Boolean logic and other advanced features.

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Sourcing hacks

by
Yulia Kuzmane,
Traditional channels

Traditional methods:

Job Boards
Social networks
(Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn)
Traditional channels

firstname:Yulia lastname:Kuzmane title:"business


development manager" company:AmazingHiring

LinkedIn boolean:
site:[DOMAIN].linkedin.com/in OR site:
[DOMAIN].linkedin.com/pub -pub.dir
Fundamental: url’s

linkedin.com/title/[title]-
https://www.

at-[company, including spaces]

Linkedin Company review


Fundamental: actions

LinkedIn Alumni Search


Fundamental: actions
Fundamental: actions

LinkedIn Alumni Search:


https://www.linkedin.com/edu/alumni?name=university%20OR
%20school%20OR%20institute%20OR%20course%20OR
%20college
Non-traditional channels

Specialized resources
Github, Stack Overflow, Bitbucket
Freelance boards (Upwork)
Non-traditional channels

Github Advanced Search

github.com/search/advanced

site:github.com "Popular repositories” (skill1 OR


skill2) (location1 OR location2) -inurl:overview
Fundamental: url’s

api.github.com/users/
[username]/events/public
Email sourcing
Fundamental: url’s

https://github.com/[username]/
[repository_name]/commit/
[commit_code].patch
Email sourcing
Fundamental: tools

https://recruit.now.sh/
Email sourcing
Non-traditional channels

Stack Overflow Boolean

site:stackoverflow.com/users [technology] [location]


Non-traditional channels

Specialized communities
Dribbble, Behance, Revision
Kaggle, Researchgate, MathWorks
RubyGems, DjangoProject, CPAN, Google Play
AngelList
Non-traditional channels

Behance
site:behance.net "Moscow, Russian Federation"
intitle:"on Behance" "UI designer"
-inurl:following -inurl:followers
Fundamental: tools

Intelligent Search
Facebook search
online / extension tool
Fundamental: tools

AmazingHiring
People aggregator
online / extension tool
Fundamental: tools

Hunter
Contact generation & verification
online / extension tool
Fundamental: tools

VoilaNorbert
AnyMailFinder
FindAnyEmail
Email creators
Fundamental: tools

Rapportive
Email < > Linkedin profile matching
Gmail extension tool
Fundamental: tools

Followerwonk
Twitter users search
Fundamental: tools

Goodreads
inurl:user site:goodreads.com (”[technology]” OR
“[topic]”) intitle:books
Fundamental: url’s

facebook.com/search/[id]/
[places-visited]
[stories-liked]
[photos-tagged]
Personification points
Fundamental: url’s

https://namechk.com/

Profiles sourcing
Fundamental: actions

Google Image Search


Google Face recognition
(Images—>tools—>type:faces)
Fundamental: actions

Google exact phrase search


“[____]”

Taking into “_“ any phrase/email/name


we want to source
Fundamental: actions

Sample random boolean #1

intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR inurl:cv -job -jobs -sample -


samples -template -"resume service" -"resume writers" -"resume
writing" (location1 OR location2) (position1 OR position2)
(technology1 OR technology2)

CV sourcing by location / title / education


Fundamental: actions

Sample random boolean #2


(filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf) ~resume (technology1 OR
technology2) (location1 OR location2)

CV sourcing
CASE

Cant’t find the link to the PDF cv of one CTO from


Bay area. I recall he was good at Ruby, Redis and
used to work with AWS. And his family name
sounded like something greenish… I don’t need this
file right now, just his house number!
???
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Yulia Kuzmane
[email protected]
skype: [email protected]

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