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Whether you are over fishing on LinkedIn or not depends on how you are using LinkedIn for recruiting. With over 500 million professional members, LinkedIn should definitely be part of your sourcing toolbox. But there are specific LinkedIn tools you should avoid in order not to be over fishing on LinkedIn. Unless you are connected to them you, contacting candidates ...

We have built developerDB to be the most useful sourcing platform for tech recruiting. We are adding more features and search functions weekly. And while we are ecstatic that our beta users are using the default search functions to find, review, and contact candidates, we also want to encourage you to try something new. One of the most exclusive functions ...

For developers, the sky may have fallen. I know our developer team was devastated to hear the news yesterday that Microsoft had acquired GitHub. While developers may be over exaggerating the pain of Microsoft’s acquisition, there will be changes for both developers and recruiters using GitHub to source. Don’t look at LinkedIn as the model of how gently Microsoft will ...

Let's say I am launching an adulterous cheating site similar to Ashley Madison. But users must divulge their real name and intention to everyone on the site except their spouses. How successful do you think this site would be? It would bomb! Which brings me around to job searching with LinkedIn Open Candidates. Now, I am not implying that someone ...

With more than 25 million users on GitHub, there must be one qualified developer who will be interested in your open tech position. Right? Sure, but like the hopeless romantic who believes that the sheer number of people in the world means the one person for him will just walk through the door, the optimistic tech recruiter thinks that a ...