Recruiting talent on Medium

Medium is an online publishing platform launched in 2012. The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium. The various themes of the blogs published on Medium means that you can find talent who position themselves as thought leaders. Medium bloggers are writing across all themes, but one of the most popular themes for Medium bloggers to write about is tech.

Key facts

• All types of talent
• 1.4 million new articles posted each month
• Talent that show thought leadership and articles that provide their keywords

Information

The information on Medium is rich because keywords can be found in the content of the articles that are written.

Blogs

The blogs give rich information on the topic that the blogger is writing about presumably has knowledge in.

User profile

The user profiles showcases the blogs written by the blogger. The bio gives a two or three line summary of the blogger.

‍How to search Medium

Search Medium

Search directly in Medium to find bloggers in the domain you’re sourcing talent for and find bloggers with interesting pieces of content.‍

Blogs with the tag ‘Machine Learning’

Search Google

Search google for Medium articles related to the domain you’re sourcing for.

site:medium.com “growth marketing strategy"

Or search for members that have related keywords in their bio.

site:medium.com “machine learning" "medium member since"