Tools

toolsHere is a List of some favorite Sourcing, Internet Research, and Social Recruiting Tools and Resources.

 

 

 

Organize Add-ons in Chrome

Image-Related  

Search-Related

Capturing Web Content

  • Save to Google – just for saving pages and images
  • Evernote – powerful app – capture and organize content from the web
  • CometDocs – convert PDF to Excel

Writing

Scraping, Parsing, Filtering, and Sorting

  • Outwit Docs – “download manager.” It can save documents referenced on a web page (such as the Google search results for Excel or PDF files); sort them by the size and date; keep for processing offline
  • 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 Chrome Add-On – EmailDrop
  • Scraper  – get data out of pages into spreadsheets
  • Dataminer – scraper, with crowd-created rules for getting info from different sites – including LinkedIn search

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, ZoomInfo, Meetup, Github, ResearchGate, Indeed Resumes, Google Scholar, XING, Doximity, and Healthgrades. The records can be populated with email addresses on requist. Monthly subscription, one-week free trial (no card required).

People Aggregators (paid)

People aggregators are systems that collect social data about the same professional across the web into one profile and allow users to search within the aggregated database of these profiles.

  • Dice Open Web (Former theSocialCV – acquired by Dice)
  • Talentbin (Acquired by Monster.com, which has been, in turn, acquired by Randstad)
  • Hiringsolved (Covers all locations and all industries)
  • Swoop Talent
  • Entelo (Great tool for those looking for candidates in IT/software; good precision, attractive UI; extra features include diversity search)
  • AmazingHiring (IT Candidates. Interesting filter – “find those not on LinkedIn”)

Social Lookup

  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator – finds the LinkedIn profile based on an email address (former Rapportive). Buggy
  • Discover.ly – see social profiles in Gmail – plays nicely with Rapportive
  • Hunter – has a database of email addresses found on the web (and it tells us where!), predicts email addresses based on the database
  • FullContact – 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. They have accumulated an enormous database of contact and social data. The accuracy can be improved
  • Clearbit – similar to FullContact
  • Facebook Graph Search Shortcuts by Michael Buzzel at inteltechniques.com
  • Stalkface – 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 language usage on Github

Lookup & Contact Info

  • ContactOut – currently my favorite tool to look up contact info on LinkedIn. Free trial
  • Lusha – find contact info on LinkedIn. 5 free look-ups daily
  • Hiretual – a mix of a “Boolean Builder”, auto-search based on a job description, machine-learning-based profile analytics, & more – a tool with a wide set of features (a bit of everything), oriented toward a new recruiter
  • Prophet – tries to guess and verify the work email address – works on Indeed.com, among other sites
  • FindThatLead – similar to Prophet
  • LeadIQ – capture a profile, add email and social links, save to Google Drive (25 credits at the link)

Contact Verification

Email Tracking

Real-Time Search / Social Media Monitoring

Real-time social search:

Alerts:

Tools by Shane McCusker

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. Recently acquired
  • (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
  • Link Silicon Valley – a lesser known aggregator of news and executive profiles in the Silicon Valley. Limited free use
  • Whois – not a people search tool, but rather checking who has registered a given site
  • 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; checks usernames
  • Radaris
  • Namechk – checks usernames across networks

Company Research

International Social Networks

Free Resume Search

Custom Search Engines

CSE’s Home on Google

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

“General” Tools

URL Shortening

File Storage and Sharing

“Social” Tools

Automation/Scheduling for Social Media Management

Twitter-Based

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