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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 ...

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi_gLVFJxkc[/embed] Our scrappy startup’s recruiting tool now has millions of developers’ personal emails in our database. However, our early search platform was not as user-friendly as it could have been (we heard you loud and clear). So, we recently released a Chrome Extension so that you can now source anywhere you like and still get personal emails for the developers ...

The Tech Recruiting DilemmaTechnical recruiting has become more difficult than ever before, with the same websites, search tools, and keywords being recycled among recruiters. Not only are recruiters repetitively tracking the same candidates with the same search tools, but an increased need to track experienced candidates with skills in specific technologies adds to the swamp. It becomes even more difficult ...

It is almost time to put away the candy and 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 ...

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 ...