How often do we limit ourselves just using LinkedIn, not searching on other sources? In this article, we want to try to expand our boundaries and show IT recruiters unusual resources to search for IT specialists.
They will be useful both for finding new profiles that are not on LinkedIn and for finding information about candidates that you can use to personalize your first message.
Quora
Everyone knows Quora as a place to ask questions and get answers. But it turns out that you can also search for IT specialists there. We’d like to tell you about two options:
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Internal search
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X-ray query
To do an internal search, go to Profiles and write keywords in the search box. For example, Java Ukraine
The site will show you profiles of people who have these keywords.
And here is an example of an X-ray query:
site:Quora.com/profile Java Ukraine
At the same time, there are people whose profiles are very well filled out and look like a resume.
Goodreads
We know companies that love to ask in interviews what professional books candidates read. And it really matters to them. Because reading books shows that a person is engaged in his/her professional development, and not just solves some current problems.
If such employees are important to you as well, why not look for them on Goodreads? Of course, not everyone uses it and writes reviews on Goodreads. But if you write to a person there or refer to his book review in your first letter, it will be your big plus and will make you stand out from the crowd.
To find candidates on Goodreads, you can use a simple X-ray query:
site:goodreads.com/user java ukraine
The sample is very interesting. You can also select those who have read a specific book, for example:
site:goodreads.com/user “Full-Stack recruiter”
Slack
Slack has become very popular not only as a messenger for internal correspondence in companies but also as a place for communication between different communities.
Slack has a lot of specialized IT communities. Here is a list of useful Russian-language communities:
https://goo.gl/fwoSdx https://github.com/mtdvio/ru-tech-chats (here you will find not only the Slack communities)
You can find more communities on the Internet or ask friends-programmers.
If you find the community you need, go to the Work or Job channel and you can post your vacancy there.
And in this article you will find a life hack on how to upload the data of the entire channel with the names of the participants and their available contacts.
We only slightly changed the code, removed those parts that are not important to us, and added Skype search. As it turned out, a lot of candidates indicate it;)
Here it is:
var members = TS.model.members.map(function(member) {
return {
'firstName': member.profile.first_name,
'lastName': member.profile.last_name,
'email': member.profile.email,
'title': member.profile.title,
'telephone': member.profile.phone,
'skype': member.profile.skype,
}
});
console.log(JSON.stringify(members));
Blogs
If you are looking for someone who writes professional articles, there are several ways to find them:
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Search on a specific resource (for example, SourceCone)
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Search on popular blogging sites: medium, tumblr, etc.
If you know the sites where profile experts are published, create an X-ray query for this site. For example, you can search on SourceCon, where sourcers from different countries are published:
site:sourcecon.com/author UK
This query is also useful for those who want to find potential speakers at the conference.
For popular sites like Medium, a query can look like this:
site:medium.com Python Ukraine
You can also use the internal tag search.
Flickr
This is where people post their photos. Flickr has an internal keyword search mentioned in the profile. Many users indicate their position and location.
We also use X-ray search:
site:flickr.com/people designer Berlin
On the site, you can find many designers who post their works or are interested in photography. But you can also find profiles of other IT specialists here.
Of course, each of us usually starts looking for IT specialists on LinkedIn. But try to expand your sourcing boundaries and look for more interesting profiles.
