An invited talk at HR Round Table Auxiliary (Seattle) luncheon in June 2013. (Updated - April 2014) There are many useful free online tools for technical recruiting. We review some of these free candidate sourcing tools and apply them to a real world example (the DevOps role at Wetpaint).

1. Mei Lu
Founder & CEO
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2.  Founder & CEO, Geekology.biz | Jobfully.com
 My work focuses on technology job market
Background info:
 MS in Computer Science (University of Pennsylvania)
 MS in Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)
 Software Engineer -> Software Engineering Manager
 Agency Recruiting for SF Bay Area tech companies:
 OpenTable,TubeMogul, RockYou!, Interwoven, etc.
 (Ruby on Rails full-stack developer – “It’s a hobby.”)
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3.  Don’t have enough high quality candidates replying to job
postings
 Shorten time-to-fill
 Lower cost-to-fill (i.e. reduce the usage of higher-cost
recruiting solutions)
 Highly targeted out-reach (e.g. diversity recruiting, experts
w/ rare skills)
 Building a talent pipeline
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4.  Today’s focus – tools (free) and techniques
Why use these tools and techniques?
 To find the contact information of passive candidates
without $$$
 Can’t rely on LinkedIn InMail
 It’s not uncommon to see -
 Technical people avoid LinkedIn
 Technical people use a “special” email address for LinkedIn
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DevOps Engineer at Wetpaint

6.  Search Engines (Google, Bing, etc.) using Boolean strings
 List of People Search Engines -
http://www.findermind.com/free-people-search-engines/
 Rapportive.com – very useful for guessing and validating
email addresses
 People often list their personal (blog) site on their LinkedIn
profile. You can usually find contact info on these personal
websites.
 Github is a great place to find people’s email addresses
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7.  StackOverflow gives you a good idea of people’s expertise
 but people don’t use their full name, and
 there is no contact information
 this means extra research work
 Meetup.com
 learn about people’s expertise or interest in specific subjects
 sometimes linking to other social profiles (LinkedIn,Twitter,
Facebook)
 sometimes no full name
 contact via meetup.com
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8.  Sourcing takes significant amount of time and effort
 It’s important to use your sourcing wisely
 Highly qualified candidates
 Have a compelling message
How?
 Partner withYour EngineeringTeam
 Each week, prepare a list of profiles and get them graded
 For each role, ask them why someone should be interested
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9. Got recruiting/sourcing quetsions?
 How to find me - mei [at] jobfully.com
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