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Newsletters

What are great newsletters in our community:

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Sourcing Digest - MatcHR⁠

- Biweekly update on the latest sourcing news. Made possible by MatcHR (awesome company ;).

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Recruiting Brainfood⁠

- Weekly update on the latest sourcing and recruitment trends, tools and data. Curated by Hung Lee and arguably the best newsletter in our industry. We take great pride that we have been featured several times in RB.

Podcasts

Some great podcasts to listen to about sourcing/recruitment:

Recruiting Trailblazers by Marcus Edwards. Marcus interviews thought leaders in the recruitment industry. Adriaan has been one of the first guests on this podcast.

The Resilient Recruiter by Mark Whitby. Interviews recruitment agency owners on their successes, failures and learnings. Maarten has been on this podcast.

Thought Leaders

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Marcel van der Meer⁠

- Founder of Badass Sourcers & Recruiters on FB. Great sourcer and is a growth hacker by nature. Ask him for any question with regards to automation and he will most likely know the answer. Oh and when you reach out to him ask him for his favorite beer 🍻.

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Hung Lee⁠

- Curator of Recruiting Brainfood and keynote speaker at almost every sourcing/recruitment event

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Mike “Batman” Cohen⁠

- Founder of a sourcing agency in the US. Expert on personalized email campaigns. Keynote speaker on many events. Huge, huge fan of Batman 🦇

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Mark Torotici ⁠

- US-based recruiting trainer, consultant, rock star

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Balazs Paroczay⁠

- Global Talent Sourcing Strategist (mostly non-tech)

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Dean da Costa⁠

- Staffing Professional "Finding what cannot be Found". Specializing in Military/Veteran staffing, Sourcing, research, Staffing Architecture, full-cycle recruiting, Lean Staffing, Mobile recruiting, Internet Forensics, Research, Hacking, Social Recruiting, ZapInfoPRO and more.

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Sofia Broberger⁠

- freelance tech recruiter, speaker, trainer. Based in Stockholm.

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Aaron Lintz⁠

- works at Thoughtworks. “In my spare time I binge watch everything that streams, carry my kid's lacrosse gear like a pack mule and sing loudly in my car while drumming my fingers on the steering wheel.”

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Jan Tegze⁠

- honored recruiter, author of Fullstack Recruiter books (best-sellers)

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Jonnathan Kidder⁠

- 10 years of tech recruiting and sourcing experience. Works at Amazon. “Check out my Blog WizardSourcer I'm passionate about writing about recruitment and sourcing technology on WizardSourcer.com”

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Irina Shamaeva⁠

- Recruiter, Sourcer, Researcher, Diversity, Sourcing Trainer, a fan of OSINT.

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Katrina Collier⁠

- Trainer at HR, Recruitment, TA & Hiring Managers, who recruit people to treat people better. Author of Robot Recruiter (bestseller).

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Karen Azulai⁠

- named as one of the "Top 100 HR Tech influencers to follow". Global Sourcing Trainer. co-Founder HRTechnation.com | Advisor, VR & HR Tech startups. Israel.

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Tris Revill⁠

- Startup Recruiter, growth hacker. “I'm a Sourcer, Cyber Stalker, Headhunter, Data Geek, Recruiter, Career Helper, Job Seekers Friend, Technologist, Marketeer and Recruitment Nerd.”

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John Rose⁠

- specialized in market research and candidate market mapping.

Facebook groups

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Recruiting Brainfood⁠

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The main purpose of this group is to discuss the content shared on Sunday

Brainfood newsletter⁠

. As every member is also a subscriber, chances are this is a community who might have also read it and therefore be able to contribute to the discussion on it. Any member can start a discussion - just post up the link and add your thoughts to it!

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SoSu Speakers⁠

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Discussion group for those passionate about sourcing and spreading sourcing love.

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Sourcers Who Code⁠

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Here you can learn to speak both Talent and Tech! Sourcing and Recruiting professionals are sharing innovative recruitment solutions, the ones you won’t find anywhere else. Joining this group is a good start for becoming a coding sourcer able to automate your work.

Members: 1800+

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Growth Hacking Recruiters⁠

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Maybe you were curious how it’s possible that some recruiters got more likes, views, and comments under a similar post that you are sharing with your audience. The small things that made a difference are called growth hacks. And this group is full of information about these growth hacking tips that will help not only recruiters but everybody who would like to get better results from their work.

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SourceCon⁠

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If you want to discuss serious sourcing and recruiting questions, share useful tools and articles and tell about best events together with having fun, SourceCon is a perfect group for you!

Members: 5900+

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BadAss Recruiters & Sourcers (BARS)⁠

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Here you will find some really useful and unique content – playbooks, hacks, articles and tools. BARS is also a perfect group to engage in active discussions and get professional advice.

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Recruiters Online⁠

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Professional recruiting community with strict rules – no advertising, no job posting, no service promotion – only useful content, worth trying tools and work-related issues discussions.

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Proactive Talent Acquisition Bench Building: Sourcing Strategy⁠

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Here you will find loads of useful content, latest blog posts from the recruiting sphere, videos, event announcements and interesting discussions.

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HR Open Source – #HROS⁠

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#HROS is a collaborative community where you can ask questions and get expert answers, find your sources of inspiration by getting acquainted with colleagues’ experience and get to know about useful tools and tips.

Internal sourcing newsletter

Every month our MatcHRian Olena Konovalova sends us the latest updates from the sourcing world, some new tools, and overall interesting articles via email. Be sure not to miss it ;)

Here’s the archive of the previous issues in case you’re wondering :)

Issue #1

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https://howoldisit.glitch.me⁠

- how old is a certain technology. You can order them by age or by alphabet.

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https://recruiterflow.com/tools/stackoverflow-query-generator⁠

- StackOverflow query generator. All you need is location, tech, also you can filter by skill level (bronze, silver, gold) and later on download CSV.

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https://interviewing.io/recordings⁠

- recordings of mock technical interviews. Among interviewers are people from Google, Amazon, Netflix. It's just for better understanding of how tech people interview tech people, also you can rate and comment each interview and transcripts are also available, for free.

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https://www.aozata.com/linkedin-company-search/#gsc.tab=0⁠

- search companies in LinkedIn by location and number of employees. For example, London less than 50 employees

Issue #2

Sharing a pretty cool site to source that I've found today.

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https://sourcerer.io/⁠

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Basically, it visualizes data from the user's GitHub and/or GitLab profiles. So, you can see the span of activity with a certain technology, the number of commits in a certain language, and the years he worked with a certain techs, plus you can see the similar top contributors. And, last but not least, the passage "fun facts" contains graphics on when is this person feels most productive (early morning, daytime, night) and the day he's (she's) most productive (so we could use that in outreach planning).

Here's an example of the profile -

https://sourcerer.io/kberov⁠

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How you can find his contact info then? Just Google his nickname or modify the first part of URL for GitHub. After that, you know what to do 😎

Long story short. I believe it could be beneficial in terms of Perl developer's search.

I've run a couple of X-Ray searches. Still haven't figured out how internal search works though.

Here are examples:

site:sourcerer.io Perl (developer OR engineer OR programmer)

site:sourcerer.io "* commits in Perl"

Issue #3

https://dev.to/t/explainlikeimfive⁠

- developers explaining technical stuff in the easiest way. They can either ask fellow software engineers to explain them a new concept or make a post themselves. Pretty cool explanations on CI/CD and open source 😎

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https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/salary⁠

- salary calculator by Stackoverflow. You introduce the position you need, education level required, years of experience and tech needed (languages, frameworks, databases, etc). Better works in mobile version. Oh, and it works in the limited number of countries which are listed there.

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https://stackshare.io/⁠

- Tech stack search engine. Sort of. Can be useful if you want to know THE companies that use, for example, Perl or IF a certain company uses Perl. Might requiere signing up.

Issue #4

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https://medium.com/@sourcingstoic/my-top-100-favorite-google-dorks-in-no-particular-order-5e63f1d2dea3⁠

- 100 ready-to-use XRay Boolean strings templates for each and every occasion - for GitHub, resume search, Hackerrank, even AWS.

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https://www.scoperac.com/booleanstringbank/⁠

- people share their Boolean stings in here for IT and non IT roles (there is actually an industry specific Booleans here). Here the strings are mostly for LinkedIn, but maybe it can inspire you for refreshing your search templates. Require signing up.

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https://telegra.ph/List-of-useful-shortcuts---Windows--GSuite-01-08⁠

- last but not least. Shortcuts for Windows and Google Suite that I've collected from different sources.

Issue #5

Podcasts:

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https://stackoverflow.blog/podcast/⁠

- tech podcasts from Stackoverflow

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https://www.crowdcast.io/hung-lee⁠

- recordings of recruitment related webinars hosted by Hung Lee. There are also announcements of future events as well.

Tech glossary:

#techforitrecruiters - LinkedIn hashtag. I believe the name speaks for itself 😊

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https://medium.com/ai-for-software-engineering/what-is-the-level-of-your-tech-start-up-part-1-3-software-architecture-df24d4db1b19⁠

Random:

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https://javascript.info/⁠

- a structured collection of JavaScript related articles from basics to advanced stuff

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/⁠

- could be handy in funny outreaches. Why not?

Issue #6

You live you learn, right? 😉

Just thought it might be a good idea to drop a list of blogs that I enjoy reading. Perhaps, you're already familiar with some of these guys and hopefully, you might also discover some new names.

Without further ado:

vas3k (rus/eng) ->

rus blog⁠

eng blog⁠

Twitter⁠

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Sandor Turanszky ->

Linkedin #techforitrecruiters⁠

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Borodutch (rus) -> Telegram (2 channels ->

news overview⁠

books recommendations⁠

)

IT boroda (rus) ->

YouTube⁠

Soundcloud⁠

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Kozulya (rus) ->

Telegram⁠

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Gergely Orosz, ex-Uber Sr.Eng Manager (NL) (eng) ->

blog⁠

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Issue #7

📱 Something about TikTok (careful, these are loooong articles, but worth reading if you have some time):

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https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat⁠

(part 1)

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https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algorithm⁠

(part 2)

And. Drum roll… 🥁

IT-related TV shows 📺:

Silicon Valley (HBO comedy show about the startup life in California)

IT crowd (British comedy show about the small IT department, sometimes may be quite over the top, but if you love British humor, you’re welcome)

Zoey’s extraordinary playlist (well, IT may not be the most central topic here, but it does tackle some issues of Engineering Management, stress and burnout in the workplace, and diversity)

Mr. Robot (oh, this is a serious one. If you ever curious about the world of hacking and security)

Issue #8

There's a pretty cool

YouTube channel of Greg Hawkes⁠

who mostly shares short videos with sourcing hacks. So if you may run out of sourcing inspiration at some point, it's one of the places to go 😉

Here's what I've discovered on my own. We all know and love the Medium, right? Did you know that there are also company's engineering blogs on this platform? This boolean string will help you find some interesting blogs from the relevant companies when you're doing competitor research, for example.

site:*.engineering (platform OR infrastructure OR SRE OR AWS OR GCP) -> here's my example when I was doing research for the Infrastructure Engineering Manager role for Mollie. You can pick any other tech keywords.

💥💥💥

I present you

GitLab hiring handbook⁠

. Amazing how many things these guys are willing to share. Some documents attached in this handbook may be closed, but there's still quite a lot of stuff out there in the open.

Talking about the stuff that's not open (for non-Apple users). Clubhouse. Yes, that one.

Here's⁠

a good article on how we can source on Clubhouse via Xray.

Issue #9

here's⁠

the video from the webinar on Candidate Journey I attended last week. There were some valuable insights on feedback sharing in particular. The talk itself is in Ukrainian, but all the slides are in English, so I'm guessing this might work. Or not 😅

Also,

here's⁠

a pretty good list of companies hiring internationally by Relocate me.

Oh, and there's a third part of that looong blog articles about Tiktok that I shared earlier. Here's the

article⁠

. I think this may be the conclusive part, but who knows 🤔

A bit of sad news for those who enjoyed GitHub Xray sourcing.

Apparently the string like site:github.com inurl:tab.repositories Java Ukraine

is no longer supported by Google and therefore not returning any results. Most likely it is due to some privacy issues not allowing to access directly user repositories outside GitHub. But all the other Xray strings for GitHub keep working as well as Google Custom Search Engines designed for GitHub 👌

On a less sourcing-related note. Talking about organizing and productivity. I found the Chrome extension called

Mornin⁠

which allows you to organize your daily tasks scheduled in the calendar by colors and it shows how much time do you spend on each task category (people management, execution, planning, etc.). The only thing is it might only work in Google outlay so you might need to sync your Outlook calendar with Google calendar. Just reach out to me if you're interested in how to do this. At the moment I'm just testing it.

Issue #10

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Very interesting report⁠

on developers' preferences on the job search. Contains some valuable insights on what these guys potentially want from a new workplace. And it is brand new, 2021 dated.

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Great article⁠

on job titles ranking in IT. Especially the leadership ones.

Issue #11

Here's also a Medium article about the software architecture which is pretty techical, but since when it scares us? 😅 (actually it's a series of three articles)

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https://medium.com/ai-for-software-engineering/what-is-the-level-of-your-tech-start-up-part-1-3-software-architecture-df24d4db1b19⁠

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There's also an online event hosted by Tris Revill about how to make your boolean searches more effective.

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https://fb.me/e/57s72bB6x⁠

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Issue #12

First,

here⁠

is a podcast from Mark Deubel (engineer turned recruiter and now working for Elastic). The latest episode is about sourcing outreach 💥

Second, a while ago I came across this

site⁠

. Basically, it's a directory that contains the list of people who have Google Cloud certifications. You can filter them by certification title, location, and skills.

Third,

here⁠

is a YouTube playlist of series of short videos explaining tech terms and definitions for recruiters. Since GlossaryTech is on long term vacation 😅

Fourth,

an article⁠

by Irina Shamaeva about the LinkedIn search operators. Yes, they are also BACK again. 😂

And last but not least. Some example of Xray sourcing on GitLab:

site:gitlab.com "personal projects" "security engineer"

site:gitlab.com "following" "backend developer"

site:gitlab.com "member since" "engineering manager"

Issue #13

Here are some articles about what we covered a little bit on training with Mark Tortorici.

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Microservices VS Web services⁠

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Web services VS APIs⁠

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SOA VS Microservices⁠

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Oh, and also I've found some recording from the tech training I had last spring. Sorry guys it's in Russian, but slides are in English though. I've uploaded all the videos

here⁠

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Secondly, how often do we hear from the candidates that our emails somehow went to spam? Probably, way more often than we expect. So

here's⁠

a lengthy but very detailed article on how to make sure that your emails won't go to spam.

Thirdly,

here's⁠

a YouTube channel of Amy Miller, a recruiter who has experience working in such tech giants as Google and Amazon. She uploads weekly short videos (up to 15 mins each) about some issues that we face almost every day.

Issue #14

site:github.com/orgs php - so this search string will lead you to organizations GH profiles that have some PHP (or another language, just change it in the string) projects. So you can see people working on those projects on the according tab, if there are too many you can easily scrape them.

site:github.com php golang (engineer OR developer) (netherlands OR NL OR nederland OR amsterdam) -inurl:jobs -inurl:blob -inurl:data

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GitHub trending developers⁠

- this is an especially cool feature. It shows you the list of developers who have some of their code repositories in trending in certain languages. For now, you can only filter the language and the trading time span. And I think you can scrape this list as well.

Blogs/articles:

Interesting

article⁠

on how to deal with different types of people on software projects. All the icons are clickable so you can read into each type of profile in more detail. It can give us some valuable insights I think.

Issue #15

So, what if I told you...

...can use Python for frontend development 😳 Here's the

blog post⁠

proving it.

...can use Chrome bookmarklets to automate some parts of your workflow.

Here's ⁠

what Glen Gutmacher thinks 😉

...can

subscribe⁠

to the newsletter and receive some tech explanations designed specifically for recruiters. The first issue is about CMS. Trust me, you'll encounter this abbreviation a LOT when sourcing for PHP/web developers.

...I forgot to add some explanation in the previous newsletter issue. Oopsie daisy 🙈

So, I didn't explain what this Github Xray string means:

site:github.com php golang (engineer OR developer) (netherlands OR NL OR nederland OR amsterdam) -inurl:jobs -inurl:blob -inurl:data

Basically, it shows you the GitHub profiles of people who work with Go and PHP and based in NL. But the results might be quite mixed so I removed some irrelevant pages. So you can experiment with locations and keywords.

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