Sourcing Tips

Where to find the Right Candidate? As a successful Internet Recruiter goes through various sourcing avenues and try to source the Right Talent for available requirements. Sometimes it’s easy and sometimes it’s difficult to find the right talent. However we never stop searching for the right talent. There are multiple areas where we can find the right talent, they are….

Job Boards: All most all the job boards go with same Boolean Logic to fetch the candidates. When using job boards, one should thoroughly know the usage of Boolean Operators or else it will be difficult to source the right talent.

Chrome Extensions: Nowadays chrome extensions have gained and attracting the large pool of recruiters who are working on some niche skills, most of the extensions work around LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, your emails, your spelling corrections what not so much of the stuff is being done through the chrome extensions. However one should know how to use a particular chrome extension.

X-Ray Search: At present very popular and most attracting word in the new age recruiting and recruitment firms. One of the very useful technique to source a resume even without a job board. However one should be aware how to use X-Ray search to fetch the candidate details.

A search engine X-ray whether Google or Bing effectively allows you to search web pages for specific keyword combinations and information. A Google X-Ray is the most basic of Boolean logic. By using Boolean, you can target your results without having to comb through thousands of pages of search results. It is an effective way to source for candidates who have specialized skills and keywords listed on social networks, websites and online databases.

Now let us see how to write X-Ray String.

Example-1: site: linkedin.com -pub/dir “Bengaluru” java hibernate struts angular (we restricted to only Bengaluru)

Example-2: site: linkedin.com -pub/dir “india” java hibernate struts angular (We expanded our search to India)

Note: ☞ As always most of the Recruitment Professionals say Sourcing is not a Technology, it’s a pure skills that one individual uses differently from others. So, it is one individual’s interest to fetch the right candidate by tweaking the available string. ☞ X-Ray fetches the results accurately when the candidate or the skill you are looking which is properly updated in his/her social media profile like LinkedIn, Twitter, MeetUp, GitHub, StackOverflow etc.

Helpful URLs for X-Ray Search http://tiny.cc/56678y (this is exclusively for LinkedIn Indian Profiles of various technologies) https://recruitin.net/ (It will generate a custom X-Ray String for LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Twitter etc)

GitHub Sourcing: GitHub is purely for the IT Technical People only and most of the profiles you find are developers of various platforms. Each and every developer using GitHub, has to set up an account – a profile that is visible to the public. And on it you can find all sorts of fantastic information about that person, including: Username, Current employer, Location, Email address, Websites they have chosen to display. If you would like to assess the candidate’s capability you should know the number of followers he has, 2-10 followers is good, 11-25 is great, 26-75 is exceptional (and probably means that person is very respected within the industry), and anyone with 75+ followers is super-hot, and will be nigh on impossible to recruit.

Step-by-Step Process of GitHub Sourcing: Create a GitHub account: Non-logged in users are very restricted as to what they can and can’t search for in GitHub. Search: Use the search bar on the top to search candidate using Language (Coding Language), Location and followers.

Example: language:angular location:bangalore followers:2..50

**Chrome Extensions are discussed on my next blog**