Tools to hire for growth

The high growth environment of startups, constant change and the need for the top 1% growth minded people requires good software that enables hiring at lightspeed.

But with limited recruitment resources and the vast variety of available tooling, it can be hard to decide on which tools fit your recruitment goals best.

Recruitment software for startups needs to be:

1. Effective in terms of helping you find the right people enabled by data driven decision making
2. Flexible in terms of pricing so you can change plans whenever your needs change
3. Easy enough to start using it today and integrate it in your recruitment process
4. Scalable in terms of functionality so the tool can grow with your rapidly changing team
   

So what tools are available on the market that meet your startup hiring goals?

We provide an overview of tooling based on three stages in your recruitment journey: sourcing, outreach and hiring.

Sourcing software

Sourcing is the process of finding the right candidates for your open position using different sources where candidates can be found.

Recruitin

Recruitin is an X-ray search string generator. It creates the right Boolean search strings based on the fields you choose to include in your search. You can create search strings for LinkedIn, GitHub, Dribbble, Xing, Stack Overflow and Twitter to find candidates based on your keywords. All straight from Google. 

Price: Free

Ease of use: Super easy

GlossaryTech

GlossaryTech is a chrome extension that helps you identify the key technologies that engineers have on their LinkedIn profile. You can see in one glance what technical skills someone has and it also helps you with definitions of technologies for when you’re not sure what they mean.

Price: Free

Ease of use: Super easy

HeroHunt

HeroHunt is a cross platform talent search engine specifically designed for tech companies. The tool searches through millions of profiles on several platforms like LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Kaggle and Angellist to provide the best matching candidates for your job.

Price: Free version and paid plans (€99 - €399 per month)

Ease of use: Super easy