🎉 Top 10 places to find developers

Favorite sites from top recruiters to boolean search, how to source candidates from Kaggle & Slack, top 10 places to find developers, email deliverability tools for recruiters & more

Sep 03, 2021

Hello 🙌

I’m Raj, and each week I curate interesting tips, articles, and resources around recruitment, sourcing, and anything else that’s hot in the talent world. It's Friday and I'm back with another edition of 10xrecruiter for you to level up your recruitment game.

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✨ A timeless thought

Keith Schneider @SchneiderKJ

Recruiters, be upfront and honest with your hiring managers about the current market + challenges. How long it’s going to take to find candidates. How to tweak your process. How they can get involved. Collaborate. Hiring is an all out team effort right now.

💯 Tips & hacks of the week

🔥 Favorite sites from top recruiters to boolean search

Combine job titles + pronouns on any website
On any website, you can X-ray combining pronouns and your favorite job titles or other keywords (and their synonyms) will get a bunch of people page results. Things like 👇
site:research.*.com “machine learning” (he OR she)
H/T: Glenn Gutmacher
Twitter's database is a goldmine
Copy/paste into Twitter's search bar 👇
(github OR stackoverflow) (rust OR rustlang) filter:images
H/T: Jung Kim
Find tech even participants & speakers
Source candidates on Sched(a platform for event organizers to run events) 👇
site:*.sched.com inurl:(attendees|speakers) California "Machine Learning"
H/T: Steve Levy

👨🏻‍💻 How to source Machine learning and Data Science talent on Kaggle?

Kaggle is the platform where you can source well-experienced developers, especially big data engineers and machine learning experts.

In general, it is a platform for competitions. It means that different companies or individuals post certain tasks related to data science on this website and offer to solve them. Within the limits of a specific task, specialists suggest their solutions. The user who provided the best answer gets the prize and ranking points.

Use X-Ray string to find top x% performers on Kaggle 👇

site:kaggle.com/*/competitions "top 1%"

🧠 How to source candidates from Slack?

In order to find the right channel, you may use the ready-made list of most popular communities — Slofile and then search by category. Also, you might browse these two extensive lists: An Incomplete List of Communities on Slack and 109 Slack channels for developers.

Having joined the community, you’ll get access not only to the conversations among the participants but also to the full list of community members. To see this list, click the “People” tab. You can message the potential candidate directly via Slack or via email. The email address is available in their profile.

📚 Reading

Here are a few things that I've been reading this week:

📈 Top 10 places to find developers

Here’s a great piece from Jiri Herodek. He was invited to an amazing HR event organized by Vimvic to speak about some underutilized sources for finding tech talent. This article is a summary of what he had covered in his presentation.

🚀 Email Deliverability Tools for Recruiters

Are your emails are being sent directly to the dreaded spam folder or maybe your email never got delivered at all? There’s a lot of good reasons why it makes sense to test out your email deliverability when sending a message to a candidate. Read all about it here.

📈 Three Ways to X-Ray LinkedIn for Diversity

How to X-Ray LinkedIn for Diversity (emojis, accented characters, and Recommendations) — stuff you cannot do on LinkedIn —

Here are some LGBTQ+ X-Ray searches 👇

intitle:🏳️‍🌈 site:linkedin.com/in
intitle:🌈 site:linkedin.com/in (finds 🏳️‍🌈s too!)
intitle:👭 site:linkedin.com/in
intitle:👬 site:linkedin.com/in
intitle:🏳️‍⚧️ site:linkedin.com/in (transgender)

💡 Inspiration & case-studies

Curated case studies, nuggets of wisdom & techniques from other recruiters & talent experts:

Bryan Harris @Harris_Bryan

✍️ Hiring tip: Find 1 applicant that makes everyone else seem unqualified. - They are your benchmark - You get extremely excited - You want to fast track them Someone that resets the expectation for the role. Example 👇🏼

Jeff Morris Jr. @jmj

An early-stage portfolio company just hired their lead designer from their waitlist. Founder sent him a personal email & they closed the candidate within a week. One easy hiring hack is to research who signed up for your beta. You probably have future employees on that list.

🚀 Recruitment tool/plugin of the week

Every week I recommend one plugin, tool, or product that can help recruiters become better at work:

🎉 Checkout Tweeple Search — It locates matching text in people’s Twitter bios and ranks the results by the number of followers. When you switch to the Influencer search mode, things get interesting.

You can search for queries and keywords in article content people have shared over the web. Then the tool ranks results by the number of shares those articles received.

Get started here →

What all that means for you, as a recruiter, is that you can make sure the candidate has truly influenced a topic, as opposed to merely having specified it in their bio text.

In other words, you can find the contact info of real influencers rather than just people with big unengaged followings and a Twitter feed where you can hear crickets chirping all day long.