Here is a List of some favorite Sourcing, Internet Research, and Social Recruiting Tools and Resources.
Organize Add-ons in Chrome
Image-Related
- Search by Image (Chrome) – searching by image under the right mouse click
- TinEye Image Search – searching in the Tineye database of images
- “Image Match” on Bing
- Reverse Image Search on Yandex
Search-Related
Capturing Web Content
- Save to Google – just for saving pages and images
- Evernote – a powerful app – capture and organize content from the web
- CometDocs – convert PDF to Excel
Writing
Checking job posts:
- Textio (subscription)
- Jobint
- Gender Decoder
Scraping, Parsing, Filtering, and Sorting
- Outwit Docs – “download manager”
- Outwit Hub – advanced web scraping tool. It parses and collects data on web pages, in cases where there are lists of similar entries. Highly customizable
- Email Extractor – paste text in the box, and it will extract email addresses
- Email Extractor/Collector Chrome Add-On – EmailExtractor
- Scraper – get data out of pages into spreadsheets
- Instant Data Scraper by Webrobots.io – does a really good job out-of-the-box
- Dataminer – scraper with a visual UI
Generate Long Lists of Candidates (paid subscription)
- SocialList.io – find and export lists of Social Profiles exactly matching your requirements, such as a job title or company. Currently, works with LinkedIn, Meetup, Github, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, XING, Doximity, and Healthgrades. The records can be populated with email addresses on request. Monthly subscription, one-week free trial (no card required)
Social Lookup
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator – finds the LinkedIn profile based on an email address (former Rapportive)
- Discover.ly – see social profiles in Gmail
- Hunter – has a database of email addresses found on the web (and it tells us where!), predicts email addresses based on the database
- FullContact –an add-on for Gmail, showing social profiles. They also have a site fullcontact.com, where you can upload lists of email addresses and social contacts
- Clearbit – similar to FullContact
- Facebook Search by Shane McCusker
- Facebook Graph Search Shortcuts by Michael Buzzel at inteltechniques.com
- StalkScan – Facebook Graph-based, digging deeper into researching a person (scary level of detail!)
- Connectifier Social Links – conveniently points to a person’s social profiles elsewhere
- GlossaryTech – highlights and explains technical terms on a profile
- OctoHR – shows the programming languages used on Github
Lookup & Contact Info
- ContactOut – currently my favorite tool to look up contact info on LinkedIn (I use the free credits)
- Nymeria – find contact info on LinkedIn
- LeadIQ – capture a profile, add email and social links, save to Google Drive
- Find That Lead – lead generation tool for b2b companies
- ZAPinfo (formerly WebClipDrop) – collects profiles; enriches the records with contact and other info
Contact Verification
- Spydialer – verify phone numbers
- Carrier lookup: https://www.carrierlookup.com (one free search per day); https://freecarrierlookup.com
- Caller ID databases: https://www.opencnam.com (worldwide); https://www.phonevalidator.com (US only)
Email Tracking
Real-Time Search / Social Media Monitoring
Real-time social search:
- socialmention*
- Mention (limited free use)
- SocialSearcher
Alerts:
- Google Alerts
- An alternative – Talkwalker alerts
- Owler – Track your competition
- Job post alerts and resume alerts – Indeed and SimplyHired
Search in the Past
People and Company Search
- Zoominfo – a veteran site; collects professional information, including job titles, employers, and contact info, on the web
- (former) Jigsaw, Connect.data.com, owned by Salesforce – “business card exchange” – mostly used by sales professionals. It is going to be retired in May 2019
WHOIS
Due to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) “whois” data is no longer available for European websites.
- https://www.godaddy.com/whois provides data for non-European sites
- https://whoisology.com/ maintains an archive of all whois records
- Reverse Whois Lookup
People Finders
People search that combines data from searching the open web, social sites, and public data. These sites make money by referring visitors to paid sites.
- Zabasearch – one of the older People Finders; seems to show more phone numbers than some other sites
- Pipl –works internationally; finds people; checks usernames, phone numbers and email addresses
- Radaris
- Namechk – checks usernames across networks
Company Research
- Hoovers
- Manta – small business search in the US
- Corporationwiki – a crowd-sourced directory
- Crunchbase – technology companies
- AngelList – start-ups
International Social Networks
Free Resume Search
- Indeed.com – a large volume of resumes. Check their site for resume search in many countries. Has a robust advanced search dialog. Recently switched to showing candidate’s names only to paid users
Custom Search Engines
I have created a set of advanced custom search engines for Sourcing – feel free to include in your practice. See more CSEs on our company page.
Global Search Engines
- Bing
- Duckduckgo
- Yandex (a Russian search engine; it is also a reliable global English-language search engine supporting proximity search)
- The tool I Search From (based on Google) provides searching as if from a different location
“General” Tools
URL Shortening
- Goo.gl
- Bitly – also has a chrome extension
File Storage and Sharing
“Social” Tools
Automation/Scheduling for Social Media Management
- HootSuite – manage social channels; limited free use
- Buffer – manage content sharing; limited free use
- If This Then That
- Zapier
- Dlvr.it
- PhantomBuster
- People.camp
Twitter-Based
- TweetDeck (part of Twitter) – manage and monitor Twitter channels
- ManageFlitter
- SocialBro (free trial)
- followerwonk
Other lists of tools:
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