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How to recruit tech talent without using an agency?

Recruitment agencies can be expensive and it's not always clear what to expect, the alternative is to source and recruit talent yourself. This is how.

Recruitment Strategies

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Outreach message templates to recruit tech talent

Writing a good outreach message seems simple, but it's one of the most crucial steps in the recruitment process. So here you go with some message examples that work.

Recruitment Strategies

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Tech job title synonyms and search strings

Including job title synonyms in your search for tech talent can boost your search results and lets you find hidden talent.

Recruitment Strategies

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Recruiting statistics 2021: hiring questions answered with data

Recruitment can be a highly subjective domain of expertise, with these statistics you arm yourself with data driven answers to the most frequent recruiting questions.

Market Insights

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How recruiters find your profile online

We all have a user profile somewhere, but not every profile is likely to appear on top of the search results.

Market Insights

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How to use emojis to find people online

Everybody uses Emojis nowadays in social media posts, blogs and their profiles. This means you can also use Emojis to search people online.

Recruitment Strategies

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Data scientist recruitment: a brief guide

Data scientists are some of the smartest people alive and hard to find. This guide helps you to find, assess and hire them.

Recruitment Strategies

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Why we're radically changing the way people find people

Candidate information is spread across the entire web. But access to this information requires paid subscriptions, technical searching skill and a lot of manual work. This is why we're changing that.

Market Insights

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Recruitment’s final destiny

Recruitment is as old as the civilized human race and will experience undeniably rapid change.

Market Insights

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The Full Pool Sourcing Method™

The Full Pool Sourcing Method is an integrated approach to sourcing all opportune candidate sources: the employee base, ATS and external sources

Sourcing

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Turn your product vision into a hiring magnet

With your product vision you can share a powerful and concise message to your candidates about your company's promise of the product in the market.

Recruitment Strategies

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What is sourcing in recruitment and how does it work

Recruitment all starts with sourcing where candidates are found and attracted with a set of search and attraction tools and techniques.

Recruitment Strategies

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Steps in the 360 recruitment cycle

The 360 recruitment cycle covers all the phases in recruitment including sourcing, interviewing, selecting and hiring.

Recruitment Strategies

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SaaS Recruitment: The Ultimate Guide

SaaS candidates are among the most wanted talent, but armed with these SaaS recruiting tactics you will find and hire them

Recruitment Strategies

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Who do the world's biggest SaaS companies employ?

SaaS companies have proven to be successful, but who do they employ to make it all happen?

Market Insights

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Technical recruitment: tech talent sourcing ideas

Sometimes you get stuck in sourcing that hard to find talent, this might help you te get some new ideas on your sourcing methods.

Recruitment Strategies

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One string to boole them all

Boolean and other search operators for recruiters: search for title, in sites, urls, pdf, other files and more

Recruitment Strategies

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Recruitment trends in 2022 and beyond: what to expect

Recruitment has been changing, slowly and steadily. But that change will speed up now some major trends meet.

Market Insights

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SaaS Sales Recruitment: methods and tools

Recruiting for SaaS sales people is one of the toughest recruiting challenges, demand is high and supply is limited. You need to be smart in your sourcing and recruitment methods.

Recruitment Strategies

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3 Hacks to recruit talent on LinkedIn without a paid account

Run into restrictions on LinkedIn because you don't have a paid account? Or want to know how you can find candidate profiles on LinkedIn without being dependent on the platform's functionality? We got you covered in this blog.

Recruitment Strategies

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The practical guide to X-raying LinkedIn in 2021: find candidates without premium features

With Google you can search anything, LinkedIn is no exception. This is how you can create targeted Google searches to find your LinkedIn candidate profiles.

Recruitment Strategies

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Overview of LinkedIn country codes to use in your X-ray search

When X-raying LinkedIn, you can use country codes to get LinkedIn profiles from specific countries in your Google search results.

Recruitment Strategies

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The practical guide to startup recruitment

Recruiting for a startup means recruiting hard to find talent with limited resources and rapidly changing requirements. So how do you know who to hire, how to find them, reach them and how to hire them? This guide is made for you.

Recruitment Strategies

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Best contact finder tools to find candidate contact information

Found the right candidate but not a way to reach them yet? These are some tried and true tools to find mail addresses, phone numbers and links to social platforms.

Recruitment Strategies

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The LinkedIn connection invite limit and how to bypass it

LinkedIn has introduced a new weekly limit of 100 LinkedIn connection invites. This is a way to bypass that limitation.

Recruitment Strategies

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How to use Google Alerts to recruit talent that is getting fired and in need of a job

Search for talent when and where it becomes available. This is how to get notified by Google Alerts when talent becomes available as a result of company layoffs.

Recruitment Strategies

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Passive candidate sourcing: the 70% of talent most recruiters miss out on

70% of the workforce is passive talent. They are not looking for a job, but the absolute majority of them is open to offers. This is how to tap into the biggest and the most untapped pool of talent in the global market.

Recruitment Strategies

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Best LinkedIn recruiter alternatives

Sourcing talent on LinkedIn only? These are alternative platforms with big pools of untapped talent that you can source.

Recruitment Strategies

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Assessing work related needs for startup talent

Not everybody is a good fit for a startup or scaleup work environment. So who is? This an introduction to the most important work related needs of startup talent and how to assess them.

Recruitment Strategies

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20+ alternative job titles for digital marketeers

Don't forget to include these 20+ job titles synonyms for digital marketeers when you search for candidates.

Recruitment Strategies

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20+ alternative job titles for sales people

Don't forget to include these 20+ alternative job titles for sales people when you search for candidates.

Recruitment Strategies

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Strategies for hiring hard to find scaleup talent

As a tech company you basically care about two things, product development and growth. These are strategies on finding the people who make this happen: engineers, sales and growth marketeers.

Recruitment Strategies

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Startup hiring facts that matter

When you're recruiting for talent for a startup you know that it is a different ball game than recruiting for established companies. But what exactly defines the startup hiring market?

Recruitment Strategies

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What is talent mapping: a guide to data driven recruitment

Increasing accessibility to talent data gives rise to a new way of sourcing talent. With talent mapping you make use of that data to enable realistic hiring goals and anticipate sourcing challenges.

Recruitment Strategies

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Best recruitment software for startups: A brief guide

This is a guide to the tools that will help you scale your team fast with the right growth minded tech talent.

Recruitment Automation

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How to source talent on Medium

Medium is one of the leading publishing platforms worldwide where professionals showcase their thought leadership within their field of expertise. This is the place to look for talent that wants to get their voice heard.

Sourcing

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How to source talent on Kaggle

With 5 million data scientists and machine learning experts, Kaggle is the go to source for finding data talent.

Sourcing

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How to source talent on Meetup

Meetup users are usually well connected professionals who have a strong interest in the topic of the groups and events at hand. This makes it a great place to find enthusiasts in the domain you are sourcing for.

Sourcing

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How to recruit talent on Xing

The assumption is that LinkedIn is used globally as the primary professional network. Not true for Germany. Xing is the leading professional network site here and it is gaining more users in other countries as well.

Sourcing

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How to source talent on AngelList

AngelList provides startup and scaleup talent that doesn't only have the right skillset, but also the right mindset for a work environment with rapid change.

Sourcing

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How to source talent on Reddit

The Reddit community is one of the biggest online communities existing today with 330 million users. Redditors engage in comical, but also professional discussions. When understood, it provides a good opportunity for sourcing talent.

Sourcing

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How to recruit tech talent on Stack Overflow

With 14 million developers and rich technology skills information based on Q&A's, Stack Overflow is a must for sourcing tech talent.

Sourcing

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The complete guide to recruiting talent with the Google Programmable Search Engine (PSE)

The Google Programmable Search Engine (PSE), also known as the Customizable Search Engine (CSE), is like a google search but one with more search features, less restrictions and one that's reusable.

Sourcing

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How to source tech talent on GitHub

GitHub is the platform with the most active engineering users, beating LinkedIn and any other platform. A goldmine of rich and up to date candidate information.

Sourcing

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What is cross platform sourcing and why should you use it in your recruitment strategy?

57% of recruiters would lose their job or their business if they are banned for life on LinkedIn. There are alternative platforms, even better ones if you know how to use them.

Sourcing

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How to cross reference candidate information from different platforms

Candidate information can be found in a lot of different places on the web. If you want to be successful as a recruiter you need to have the full view of a candidate before you reach out.

Sourcing

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5 Dutch Unicorns Hiring For Growth

The Netherlands, with a population of a tiny 17 million, counts several unicorns and many startups that are close to becoming one.

Market Insights

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Dutch Startup Ecosystem Review: a flying start of 2021, what happened?

Highlights of the Dutch ecosystem start of 2021

Market Insights

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SaaS Sales Executive | job description example

Many fast growing tech companies are looking for sales executives. Tech sales execs usually sell either an unproven product, in an unproven market or both at the same time. In this blog we provide an example of the sales exec job description.

Recruitment Strategies

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Use cases and tools for Intelligent Recruitment Automation

In part 3 of the blog series on Intelligent Recruitment Automation we dive deeper in the possible use cases and available tools in the market.

Recruitment Automation

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AI Technologies in Intelligent Recruitment Automation

The recruitment process is one in which people play the key role. But some activities are just very hard to do effectively with our human brains. In this blog we give an outline of the different technologies used in Intelligent Recruitment Automation.

Recruitment Automation

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The Rise and Rumble of Intelligent Recruitment Automation

This blog is part of a blog series on Intelligent Recruitment Automation in which we explore its relevance for the recruitment industry, the technologies used and the potential use cases.

Recruitment Automation

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5 hiring legal tech startups in the Netherlands

These startups are leveraging technology to create the new era of legal services, and are looking for growth talent in the Netherlands!

Market Insights

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10 Dutch scaleups looking for growth talent

The supply of hiring scaleups in the Netherlands seems never ending. This next list gives an overview of Dutch scaleups looking for growth talent.

Market Insights

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Startup core values - Wundermart and their defining beliefs

The core values of a startup define the primary beliefs of the company based on which the team acts. In our conversation with Wundermart we highlighted why core values are important for a startup and what they can mean in building and running the team.

Recruitment Strategies

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Why working at a startup can be a fulfilling experience

There is something special about working at a startup. Startups are revolutionising industries and it can be fulfilling to be part of their mission and to experience the presence of their soul.

Recruitment Strategies

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