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Are you contacting developers that every other recruiter is contacting? Chances are very high that this is the case as everyone these days has access to them with very little effort. Perhaps you’re using LinkedIn most of the time and not searching enough on tech focused sites like GitHub, Reddit, Stack Overflow (which are where developers hang out, not LinkedIn). ...

This is the second part in a series on how recruiters can market to tech workers. You can find the first one, “Recruiters: How to Market to Tech Candidates” I am a seasoned former tech marketer and have used “guerrilla” marketing strategies to not only target tech workers but also to learn more about them. When I created developerDB, i ...

I recently saw a posting for Machine Learning and AI jobs using the image above (minus the no circle). The image above reeks of corporate HR. I am sorry but corporate HR is not the coolest thing to a developer. Do you think any ML/AI candidate is going to see this image and say wow I need to go work ...

The Stack Overflow 2019 survey result came out recently. While the entire result is fascinating and deserves a good read, I want to focus on an area of great debate: The number of IT workers on LinkedIn. Based on that report, the 2015 report, and our internal research, we expect that almost one million US IT workers are missing on ...

Register now GitHub has 31 million developer/tech worker profiles that include tech skills, location, social media, and personal emails. GitHub is free to join. And with at least 22% of IT workers reporting that they don't even have a LinkedIn account, why are recruiters not on GitHub? For tech recruiting, sourcing from GitHub is like “eating your vegetables”: Something you ...

You’ve decided to expand your tech recruiting search chops beyond LinkedIn and other overfished ponds and venture out to GitHub.com where developers do their thing. Fantastic choice as you’ll be hooked in no time. Once you land there, you might be wondering how to do searches to find what you need?  Just focus on the top left search box at ...

Sure. You’ve heard about GitHub. Perhaps you’ve even run a few searches on GitHub but quickly returned to LinkedIn as it’s familiar and comfortable. No worries and no judgement as this is very common. We’re just encouraging you to seriously consider the possibilities that GitHub offers, especially when you feel you’ve hit a wall on LinkedIn. The ROI of the ...

Cloud computing became all the rage partly because the pricing model was really attractive: Pay for what you use. It was a simple and very attractive concept and it revolutionized how computing services should be bought. So, why can’t recruiting tools and services be purchased that way? Dynamic versus static pricing is the way to go. If you think about ...

Without a doubt, the LinkedIn (LI) platform and maturing LI Recruiter suite of products has been very valuable to tech recruiters and sourcers to date. However, because so many recruiters pound on LI daily, the laws of diminishing returns are clearly emerging. It’s time to up your search game by venturing out beyond the LI ecosystem as LI becomes an ...