Jonathan Kidder - the "Wizard Sourcer" is back! He's published two books since we last spoke - "Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters" and "A Guide to Diversity Talent Sourcing”
In this episode of Recruiting Trailblazers - Marcus quizzes Jonathan on Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters - the tools he recommends for different aspects of the job.
Episode Highlights
1:25- Introduction
2:07- The inspiration and reason behind Jonathan’s book
4:08- Evernote as a great tool for LinkedIn
5:30- Evernote and its integration on LinkedIn
6:32- Top few ATS tools recommended for an agency or in house
6:39- Loxo and its different integrating features
7:23- Airtable, a great personal ATS tool for in-house, plus Greenhouse, Jobvite and Salesforce
8:57- People search engines - PeoplePro, Spokeo, ZoomInfo
11.30- Free tools: Free People Search Intellus Peoplesmart
12.00- Contact finding extensions: Hiretual, Seekout purchase from PeoplePro and Spokeo
13.00 Lusha, Nymeria, Improver, Swordfish (get the book - there are loads!)
14:20- LinkedIn and how they view these tools
15.25 - Connectifier, TalentBin
16:43- Candidate outreach tools and email automation - primer on outreach
18:00- Take the time to personalize emails!
19.50- What percentage of messages are personalized?
21:43- Gem and its features as a top candidate outreach tools
22:19- Intersellar and its integration
24:34- Sourcewhale and its integration
25:03- The power of InMails - great for follow ups.
27:35- Recommendations of things for people to automate in order to save time and remain safe on LinkedIn
28:44- Tools to reach 1st degree connections MyRobot.works, Machinesourcer, PhantomBuster)
30:20- PhantomBuster and the meaning of web scraping and how it works
32:01- Recommended Boolean Generators-Recruitin.net
33:39- Email tracking tools- Saleshandy
35:00- Writing tools -Textio, Joblint, Gender Decoder, Graammarly
36:50- Scheduling tools -Calendly, Mytime, Setmore, Appointlet
38:44- How to get the book (Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters)
40:00- An overview of the second book “A Guide to Diversity Talent Sourcing”
42:26- Conclusion
Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
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