Here is a list of some favorite Sourcing, Internet Research, and Social Recruiting Tools and Resources.
Last updated: August 23, 2021
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- Web Scraping for Recruiters
- Become a Custom Search Engines Expert,
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Favorite tools are marked with ❤
Our tools are marked with ❤❤
Organize Add-ons in Chrome
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
Web Content
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 good job out-of-the-box
- Data Miner – scraper with a visual UI
- PhantomBuster – scrapers for LinkedIn and Facebook and various automation scripts
- ScrapeStorm – downloadable, highly configurable app
- Linked 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 and a database
- 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!)
- phonebook.cz – get long random lists of emails at companies
- EmailOnGithub– ❤ – what it says
- ContactOut – LinkedIn
- Nymeria -LinkedIn
- SalesQL ❤ – LinkedIn or X-Ray (my favorite contact finder!)
- RocketReach – various
- SocialList.io – various (“Contact Finder”)
- Skype_to_email, Email_to_skype
- 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)
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
- Open Link Profiler
People Finders
People search that combines data from searching the open web, social sites, and public data. These sites usually 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
- cxoreach (new in 2021)
Custom Search Engines
I have created a set of advanced custom search engines ❤❤ for Sourcing – feel free to include them in your practice.
Find full CSE coverage in the new book ❤❤
Global Search Engines
- Google – complete list of 21 operators
- Bing
- Duckduckgo
- Yandex – best reverse Image search
- StartPage – anonymized Google results
Search “from elsewhere”
- SurfShark – VPN ❤
- TunnelBear – VPN
-
SEO Search Simulator by NightWatch
Special Google Dialogs
- Events
- Jobs
- Dataset Search
- Hotels
- Podcasts
- medical information
- Find fitness activities you can do at home
Topical Searches
- Amazon advanced book search
- programmableweb.com – API search
- Namechk – username search across networks
- whatsmyname – username search across networks
- searchcode.com – search in software code across platforms
General Tools
URL Shortening
Record yourself
Translate
OCR
- Google Drive
- Google Cloud OCR recognizes formatting
- Yandex Image automatically OCRs when you search by image ❤
Image Editing
- PicPick (has a “blur” function)
Second Chrome to run
Formats
Social Tools
- Base64 Encode and Decode (for search URL manipulation)
Social Media Automation
- Buffer – manage content sharing; limited free use
- If This Then That (IFTTT)
- Zapier
- TweetDeck (part of Twitter)
- followerwonk (Twitter-based)
Other lists of tools
- Martin Freeman’s List
- Awesome Recruitment
- Glossarytech List
- WizardSourcer List
- Dean Da Costa’s start.me pages
Recommended content
- Sourcing Certifications Newsletter ❤❤
- Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood ❤
- https://lecoledurecrutement.fr (in French)
- Week in OSINT
- 10-minute tips from OSINTCurious
- Digital Inspiration (speech recognition)
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There are lots of #OSINT collections. This one is new (i.e. less outdated
) and has some unique stuff.