Tools

Here is a list of some favorite Sourcing, Internet Research, and Social Recruiting Tools and Resources.

For classes on Tools please check out:

Web Scraping for Recruiters covers scrapers
Become a Custom Search Engines Expert, CSEs.

Favorite tools are marked with *

Last updated: April 15, 2021

Organize Add-ons in Chrome

Extensity

Media-Related

Google Advanced Image Search (use for the “face” and “photo” options)
“Image Match” on Bing
Reverse Image Search on Yandex
Search by Image (Google, Bing, Yandex & others)
Searchbyimage.app
Pimeyes – reverse image search with face recognition
Youtube Metadata

Scroll

Autopagerize *

Web Content

Evernote – capture and organize content from the web

Writing

Checking job posts

Textio (subscription)
Jobint
Gender Decoder

Scraping, Parsing, Filtering, and Sorting

Outwit Docs – download files from a search
Outwit Hub – an application. It parses and collects data on web pages with lists of similar entries, has good intelligence (but get a fast computer)
Email Extractor * – paste text in the box, extract email addresses
EmailExtractor * – collect email addresses from all pages you visit
Instant Data Scraper * by Webrobots.io – does a really good job out-of-the-box
Data Miner – scraper with a visual UI
PhantomBuster – scrapers for LinkedIn and Facebook and various automation scripts
Ally – include.ai Sidebar – Beta quality but great functionality [closed]
ScrapeStorm – downloadable, highly configurable app
LinkedIn Helper – automation tool; works as a nice scraper (trial, subscription)
Dux-Soup – – automation tool; works as a scraper (subscription)
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 trial
SQL query generator – get detailed info on StackoverFlow users

Social Lookup & Contact Info

Contact+ – 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 Contact+
GlossaryTech – highlights and explains technical terms on a profile
OctoHR – shows the programming languages for a user on Github
Intelligence_X OSINT Tools
Mobile-friendly page test – allows you to see public LinkedIn profiles in incognito
Hunter – has a database of email addresses found on the web (and it tells us where!), predicts email addresses based on the database
phonebook.cz – get long random lists of emails at companies

EmailOnGithub * – what it says
ContactOut – LinkedIn
Lusha – LinkedIn
Nymeria -LinkedIn
SalesQL * – LinkedIn
RocketReach – various
SocialList.io – various (“Contact Finder”)
Skype_to_email, Email_to_skype
Skypli
scylla.sh – leaked accounts
Truepeoplesearch * – phone numbers
Epieos Email and Phone Lookup *
US Voters
HowManyOfMe (US)
Reddit Search

Contact Verification

Spydialer – verify phone numbers
carrierlookup.com (one free search per day)
freecarrierlookup.com
Caller ID database: https://www.opencnam.com (worldwide)
Caller ID database: https://www.phonevalidator.com (US)

Yesware
Sidekick by Hubspot

Social Media Monitoring

Google Alerts
Talkwalker
Job alerts – Indeed, SimplyHired, Google Jobs

URL analysis

godaddy.com/whois provides data for non-European sites
whoisology.com maintains an archive of all whois records
Reverse Whois Lookup
urlscan.io

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
xlek.com – public records search
Zoominfo – aggregates professional information, including job titles, employers, and contact info, from the web (subscription)

LinkedIn-friendly Boolean Builder by Sourcing Certifications

Company Research and Datasets

PeopleDataLabs Companies
PeopleDataLabs Job Titles
Corporationwiki – a crowd-sourced directory
Crunchbase – crowd-sourced, technology & start-up companies
Chartloop – builds company orgcharts based on LinkedIn profiles
AIHIT

Custom Search Engines

CSE’s Home on Google

I have created a set of advanced custom search engines for Sourcing – feel free to include them in your practice. See more CSEs on our company page.

My most popular CSE has been “Hidden Profiles” – bit.ly/hiddenprofiles

Most popular Diversity CSE – bit.ly/best-diversity

Full CSE coverage in the upcoming book.

Global Search Engines

Google – complete list of operators
Bing
Duckduckgo
Yandex (while being a Russian search engine, it is also a reliable global English-language search engine supporting proximity search)
StartPage – anonymized Google results

Search “from elsewhere”

I Search From (based on Google) – searching as if from a different location (based on Google Ads)
SurfShark – VPN
TunnelBear – VPN
SEO Search Simulator by NightWatch

Special Google Dialogs

Topical Searches