Planning a Sourcing Tools Survey

[Irina Shamaeva]

I plan to run a people sourcing tools survey shortly. Here's a quick list of tools. Any additions you would suggest? Thanks for any input.

Job Boards
1. CareerBuilder
2. Monster
3. Dice

4. Indeed.com (to search for resumes)
5. Industry-specific (name):
6. Industry-specific (name):
7. Other

LinkedIn
1. Basic (free)
2. Talent Finder
3. Packs of paid jobs
4. RPS
5. LinkedIn Recruiter 
6. If using RPS or Recruiter, do you use Talent Pipeline?
7. Other

“Dream Software”
1. Dice Open Web
2. Talentbin
3. Entelo
4. Gild
5. RemarkableHire
6. SwoopTalent
7. Other

Search Engines
1. Advanced Google Search
2. Google Alerts
3. Custom Search Engines
4. Bing Search
5. Other

People Search Engines
1. Pipl
2. Zabasearch
3. Yatedo
4. Other

Name Generation Sites
1. Jigsaw (Data.com by Salesforce)
2. Zoominfo
3. Other

Capturing and Scraping Tools
1. By BroadLook (list the software titles)
2. By eGrabber (list the software titles)
3. Outwit Hub
4. Scraperwiki
5. Other

Thanks :)

[Andy Rouse]

I agree with the Ladders (Passport - which is free) - except that their boolean search hasn't worked for months. 

Judy Wilcox said:

I have always liked the Ladders.

[Andy Rouse]

I would add Patent Search (Google Patent search or USPTO search engine) as well. 

[Judy Wilcox]

I tried that cvhaystack and nothing happens. 

[Stephanie Shurr]

What about org chart websites?  Anyone use wikiorgcharts.com or cogmap.com or theofficialboard.com or any others?

[Irina Shamaeva]

Sounds good. 

Irina

Andy Rouse said:

I would add Patent Search (Google Patent search or USPTO search engine) as well. 

[Irina Shamaeva]

If we don't include buggy tools we'll have to remove LinkedIn as well!

Andy Rouse said:

I agree with the Ladders (Passport - which is free) - except that their boolean search hasn't worked for months. 

Judy Wilcox said:

I have always liked the Ladders.

[Irina Shamaeva]

Katharine,

Thanks for a great list. If you would like to add more names to each category, please feel free. 

TheSourceress said:

I like Email sourcing tools - things like Raprortive, email-format.com etc.

If it's going to be international then maybe include Viadeo, Xing, Plaxo, Skillpages etc.

How about social tools like followerwonk, falcon.io etc.

It would be interesting to know how many people make use of LinkedIn Signal.

Definitely agree that Bullhorn Reach should be in there.

Look forward to seeing the results of this - great idea! 

Katharine

[Irina Shamaeva]

Lisa, I would be interested to hear more about each. 

Thanks,

Irina

Lisa Ashbeck Clark said:

  A few I use  

HiringSolved   LeadFerret   scguild.com  social-hire.com  

Google Chrome Image search - Reverse engineering using image from one social site to find other social sites to seek contact information

[Irina Shamaeva]

Thanks! I am not sure; I am not a fan of meta-search engines.

Emily Sobel said:

For search engines, there's also Ixquick/Startpage

[Lisa Clark]

HiringSolved is pay site to post - search resumes tied to LinkedIn & other social media or personal blogs etc.

Usually you have email or phone number

LeadFerret is similar to jigsaw but I find the information more reliable - You can gain points by sending tweets etc.

Viewing the card is free - Downloading car or several cards cost points

scguild.com is Sofware Contractor's Guild - Free to post - search IT related

SocialHire free site to post jobs - push jobs to social media - Interact with possible candidates

Irina Shamaeva said:

Lisa, I would be interested to hear more about each. 

Thanks,

Irina

Lisa Ashbeck Clark said:

  A few I use  

HiringSolved   LeadFerret   scguild.com  social-hire.com  

Google Chrome Image search - Reverse engineering using image from one social site to find other social sites to seek contact information

[Martin Lee]

Many of my favourites have already been named but I would like to add Facebook Graph Search into the mix. Quite an amazing way of filtering by gender, age, location, employer etc. For some reason I have BETA but it will be rolled out soon I hear. 

Another Gmail addition is Yesware.com which shows when people open your email, where and even on what device. I am advised they are working on an Outlook integration but in the meantime you can look at ToutApp and ContactMonkey for this. Using Yesware with Rapportive and Boomerang gives some interesting options ! 

The email permutator that searches for all email combinations which you then put into Rapportive is here http://bit.ly/165c4Cb Click File then Make a copy to edit. 

The best email tester I use is http://bit.ly/X4p4lK 

And one just to make your life easier and put all of your social media contacts into one place is http://connectedhq.com 

[Irina Shamaeva]

Thanks to all for the great suggestions!

I just ran across another list http://www.colleague.eu/goodies/details/cool-recruiting-tools-list.

I have written a brief overview of the suggestions on my blog http://booleanstrings.com/2013/03/20/people-sourcing-tools-suggesti...

We will be launching the survey first thing on Monday.