IT sourcing takes a huge chunk of a recruiter’s time. Of course, as a technical recruiter, you have your tips and tricks, proven methods and techniques that work. They are what help you find the most valuable technical talents. But believe me, in each field, there is always room for improvement. That’s why we looked for sourcing tools that can improve your recruitment process.
There are a couple of social recruiting tools, also called social aggregators. These fill a couple roles. They utilize social connections to make it easier to find candidates who would be referrals. On top of that, they crawl social profiles, compiling rich candidate profiles from candidate activity across the web and social media. This lets IT recruiters see a candidate’s skills, abilities, passions, and creativity at a glance instead of at the end of hours (or days) of search and communications. These tools also provide contact information on candidates saving even more of an IT recruiter’s time in the sourcing stage.
Have a look at these sourcing tools and check them out. They’ve helped many IT recruiters improve their sourcing process.
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Social recruiting and sourcing tools (social aggregators) to find technical talents
1. Entelo
Entelo’s software platform leverages big data, predictive analytics, and social signals to help recruiting organizations find, qualify, and engage with technical talents. It offers 2 modules: one for outbound recruiting and another for inbound recruiting.
Entelo pulls in candidates and relevant work experience from many sources online, into one place (eg. from Github, Dribbble, Quora, Twitter, and more). They also offer a “listening” function which helps you track what’s happening with passive candidates you’ve targeted.
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2. Hired
Hired delivers a curated pool of responsive candidates, so you can spend less time on sourcing and more time interviewing and hiring.
Hired is a career marketplace for the world’s knowledge workers, with a great pool of tech professionals and programmers. They bring together job seekers with the companies who want to hire them. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles. They will also get unmatched transparency into competing offers so they can recruit and hire with insight. The end result is an efficient, effective, and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.
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3. HiringSolved
HiringSolved makes it faster and easier to find the right person for any job. This people aggregator gathers data from across the web and filters the most relevant candidates.
HiringSolved describes itself as “Google for talent”. This platform makes it easy to find people to hire. It finds and combines data from many sources including resumes, websites, social profiles, forum posts, and contact information to create a HiringSolved profile. HiringSolved mission is to find everyone in the job market and make that information easy to search with a fast, easy to use search interface.
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4. Open Web by Dice
Dice facilitates connections with IT professionals by combining a rich database of resumes with Dice’s social recruiting tool Open Web. This sourcing tool uncovers passive candidates, accelerates your hiring, and delivers the best talent to organizations.
Open Web makes tech recruiting easier by bringing together social data from the 130 sites that matter most and presenting the data in a way that’s simple to act on. It’s a big data platform made for busy tech recruiters.
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5. Recruit’em
Recruit’em is an interesting social recruiting tool that helps recruiters search for candidates on: LinkedIn, Google+, StackOverflow, GitHub, XING, and Twitter for free. It does this by writing complex Boolean Search Strings for you. Google Search can be a powerful tool to pinpoint the kinds of social profiles you’re looking for—but anything beyond a simple query can become a real challenge. This is where Recruit’em can be of great help for IT sourcers and recruiters.
For more tips on how to use it effectively just check out the Recruit’em User Guide.
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6. Sourcing.io
Sourcing.io helps identify the best software engineers for your company.On it, you can find millions of engineers indexed. You can also browse and filter the data to find the perfect hire. Additionally, it takes social recruiting into account so your team can use its existing network to find engineers. This is important as the best candidates often come through referrals. Sourcing.io surfaces all of the people connected to your team on networks like GitHub, Bitbucket and other developer communities like Stack Exchange to mine the top developers with the highest credibility. Since December 2015, it’s become a part of Underdog.io.
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7. Swoop Talent
Swoop is a subscription-based sourcing platform which semantically searches a range of social platforms to identify, match and rank quality passive candidates for recruiters. Swoop integrates all of your private, valuable data together, and links it accurately with all of the data available on the internet.
Then it uses the social networks of employees to connect, reference check and refer these candidates for faster, more effective hiring.
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8. TalentBin by Monster
TalentBin facilitates talent acquisition by offering a one-stop search shop for recruiters and hiring managers to find suitable candidates. It is the talent search engine for the entire web. It helps you find passive candidates where they are active online, based on their skills, interests and actions.
Integration: TalentBin also lets you sync/push profiles to your ATS/Recruiting platform, as well as use the TalentBin search function from inside your recruiting platform.
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Social Referral Tools
9. Reppify Talent
Reppify is a social referral platform, aggregating the professional connections of your company’s employees to redefine the traditional model of talent IT sourcing and lead generation.
Reppify Talents helps companies achieve results and growth in referral hiring while reducing overall recruiting spend and increasing candidate quality. Referrals have been proven to show the lowest cost/hire and fastest sourcing method, 30% lower termination rates, and 25% more profitability than any other source of hire.
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IT Sourcing at College
10. Piazza Careers
Piazza is one of the largest social learning and recruiting platforms in the country for technical students. Piazza is a college collaboration and recruiting platform that has all the top technical students around the world engaged for 3+ hours a night. Currently, the college collaboration platform serves over 1 million students on an annual basis and the recruiting platform connects hundreds of the top companies around the world with these students.
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