Social Media Sourcing Tools

What are the most popular social media networks for recruiters?

LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are the most popular social networks for recruiters. Google+, YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest are runner-ups, but are still strong niche recruiting options.

Here’s the breakdown by popularity, according to a 2017 Society for Human Resources (SHRM) study that surveyed recruiters:

LinkedIn (96% of recruiters surveyed indicated they used LinkedIn)

Facebook (66% of recruiters surveyed indicated they used Facebook)

Twitter (53% of recruiters surveyed indicated they used Twitter)

Google+ (12% of recruiters surveyed indicated they used Google+)

YouTube (11% of recruiters surveyed indicated they used YouTube)

Instagram (7% of recruiters surveyed indicated they used Instagram)

Pinterest (3% of recruiters surveyed indicated they used Pinterest)

It’s clear that most recruiters use social networks to hire. According to data from Social Media Strategies Summit, 78% of recruiters have hired through a social network.

1. Recruitment geek Tool | Linkedin

Its free and user friendly tool. You can start using below tool if you don't have recruiter account on Linkedin. Boolean used over linkedin are support on below tool.

2. Followerwonk Tool | Twitter

It has both paid and free account. You can only make search on free account but its easy and useful.

You can filter Candidate based on follower, Account age/Tweets. Tool don't support Boolean.

3. Recruitment Channel - Meetup.com

It is an online social networking site. People from all over the world can share their common interest with others and meet offline through Meetup.

Steps - Create your account - Join target group - Once group admin accept your request, He/she will invite you to join offline meetup. If you are interest to join, You can search people and direct massage the member in the group.

4. Sourcinglab and Recruit’em Tool | X-ray Search

If you still face problem in doing X-ray search so i would suggest to start using tool like Sourcinglab and Recruit’em which help creating advanced sourcing techniques.

It help you create x ray search strings for all social platform like Linkedin, GitHub, Google, Xing, Facebook, Twitter, Meetup, Pinterest etc..