Here is a list of some favorite Sourcing, Internet Research, and Social Recruiting Tools and Resources.
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Organize Add-ons in Chrome
Image-Related
- “Image Match” on Bing
- Reverse Image Search on Yandex (better than Google’s)
- Search by Image (three choices – Google, Bing, and Yandex)
Search-Related
Capturing Web Content
- 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
- 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
- Data Miner – scraper with a visual UI
- PhantomBuster – has scrapers for LinkedIn and Facebook and various automation scripts
- SocialList.io – find and export lists of Social Profiles exactly matching your requirements, such as a job title or company. Has a Contact Finder. Monthly subscription, one-week free trial
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
- Contact+ (formerly FullContact) – an add-on for Gmail, showing social profiles. Their online app allows to upload and cross-reference lists of email addresses and social contacts
- Clearbit – similar to FullContact
- 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 for a user on Github
Lookup & Contact Info
- ContactOut – look up contact info on LinkedIn
- Lusha – look up contact info on LinkedIn
- Nymeria – find contact info on LinkedIn
- Find That Lead – lead generation tool for b2b companies
- ZAPinfo (formerly WebClipDrop) – collect profiles; enrich the records with contact and other info
Contact Verification
- Spydialer – verify phone numbers
- Carrier lookup: https://www.carrierlookup.com (one free search per day)
- Carrier lookup: https://freecarrierlookup.com
- Caller ID database: https://www.opencnam.com (worldwide)
- Caller ID database: https://www.phonevalidator.com (US only)
Email Tracking
Alerts / Real-Time Search / Social Media Monitoring
- Google Alerts
- An alternative – Talkwalker alerts
- socialmention*
- SocialSearcher
- Owler – Track your competition
- Job post and resume alerts – Indeed and SimplyHired
Search in the Past
People and Company Search
- Zoominfo – aggregates professional information, including job titles, employers, and contact info, from the web (paid subscription)
- LinkedIn Company search tool from Blockspring
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 US phone numbers than some others
- Pipl (paid) – works internationally; 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
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 (IFTTT)
- Zapier
- People.camp
Twitter-Based
- TweetDeck (part of Twitter) – manage and monitor Twitter channels
- SocialBro (free trial)
- followerwonk
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