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I recently had a conversation with a moderately experienced tech recruiter. Apparently, they had been persuaded by LinkedIn’s clever and ongoing marketing to use the LinkedIn InMail feature as a goto when reaching out to tech talent. This robotic like behavior caused them to overlook the fundamentals of personal engagement basics: it likely takes multiple attempts to successfully make contact.   ...

Even though there’s a wide range of products that help tech recruiters potentially find candidate emails and more, every now and then you get the big goose egg and need a few last resort tricks/hacks to find things. There is obviously no silver bullet, but here are some approaches to use when you’re in a bind and want to feel ...

It is almost time to get the turkey ready—or for my in-laws, the Christmas tree. As the year is flying by us, we thought it would be fun to find out which month of the year has the highest number of job changes within the tech sector. For this analysis, we excluded internships to focus on full time employees. With ...

Growing up, after trick or treating, we would always give our candies to our parents to inspect them for poison or other dangers. I, as a parent, continue this tradition with my son. This is a classic urban myth that strangers poison kids on Halloween. Tragically, the only two documented cases where children have died eating poisoned candy during Halloween ...

A famous bank robber was asked why he robbed banks. His answer was “That's where the money is”. Using that same brilliant logic, tech recruiters should be going to where tech talent flock to. According to the 2019 Stack Overflow survey, Reddit is the most popular social media site for developers. Compared to LinkedIn, Reddit has more developers utilizing the ...

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 ...

Recruiters may think that this is the golden age of recruiting tools with new services cropping up promising AI this or AI that.  But actually the pickings and the quality are rather anemic when compared to the quality/quantity of sales/lead generation tools available. Recruiting is similar to lead generation/sales: Find the right prospects and convince them to do something. Sure, ...

Top tech recruiters have one thing in common; they tend to continually invest some time and energy acquiring a solid macro level understanding of the technologies they are recruiting for. They also school up on trending tech to stay ahead of the masses. Sage choice on both counts. It’s no secret that most recruiters today rely solely on tech keywords ...

There is a great saying: “If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.” Tech searches follow a common recipe that offer limited results; especially when up against another agency with the same client search and time to submit is critical. It goes like this.  New position comes in and tech stack identified.  Recruiters ...

When you sign up for a SaaS subscription, companies often tempt you to sign up for the annual subscription instead of the monthly.  You save some money on the annual plan and say to yourself, “Well, I am locked into this contract for 12 months, but hey, what can go wrong.” Because of how slow things are now, you might ...