Sourcers and Recruiters increasingly use high tech tools to search for and identify Talents that are hard to find.
In this article, we'll present a list of tools to facilitate the sourcing and lead generation process and will discuss the context of this evergreen topic in the recruiting industry (and more ...).

Introduction

As job postings no longer receive a significant response and the landscape offered by numerous social platforms continues to evolve, recruiters and sourcers are finding it increasingly necessary to keep up with the identification and extraction of online profiles.

While data seems readily available, accessibility often poses a challenge.

Who has the time to browse LinkedIn + Facebook + X/Twitter + …+ … etc. searching for potential candidates that fit the increasingly detailed job requirements? These requirements are filled with demands for specialization and skills that are becoming more challenging to find each year.

This often entails several hours of browsing and a substantial level of ability and experience to be successful in this search for elusive candidates.

It's not surprising that Sourcing Academies and various courses, classes, books, and online/in-person events are proliferating to provide insights into these subjects.

The skills needed

Well-trained sourcers with years of experience in building Boolean strings, along with solid experience in OSINT and navigating the multifaceted hidden details of social platforms, can be fast in obtaining some results from their searches. However, this is not always the case for everybody.

These tasks involve data search and analysis, areas where machines outperform humans. There's no need to comment on that; it is an obvious fact that data search and assimilation are done more efficiently by computers compared to humans using their eyes on a monitor and their fingers on a keyboard and mouse 🙄.

To scan millions of profiles from hundreds of social platforms and thousands of online sources scattered across the Internet, computers and technology do the job better and faster 🤓.

The shortcut

As mentioned above, the optimal approach involves technology that applies large scale aggregation processes to collect a substantial amount of information.

This massive collection of profiles becomes easily accessible through powerful searches, often supported by AI systems.

Automation and processing power are the key components.
Now sourcers and recruiters utilize People Profiles Aggregator Systems filled with data gathered from the entire Internet.

What tools are available to manage this?

Let’s start with a new entry (but one we know well😉). What is new and improved here?
In short: two things plus a substantial one:

1. Real-time Profile Update: this unique Jobin.cloud feature allows aggregated data to be updated at the exact moment when the profile is retrieved by you.
2. Direct AI support with ChatGPT assists you in performing better searches, and generating extensive filtering definitions.

Without delving into too many technical details, this new feature in Jobin.cloud offers not only a well-distributed set of filters but also a Boolean string and extensive filtering options. Filters can be enhanced using AI, enabling you to extract definitions or Ideal Candidate Profile requirements based on the analysis of your Job Description or requirements lists.
This proves quite handy because you can start with a fast cut and paste of either a boolean string or job description and already start off with a pretty decent list of filtering criteria that you can further fine-tune if needed.

OK ... but what is the substantial advantage offered by Jobin.cloud?

The substantial advantage offered by Jobin.cloud lies in its all-in-one set of functionalities. It allows you to build your lists, pre-screen and rank using AI, organize recruiting pipelines and once you've identified the most suitable contacts, you can also automate outreach with multi-channel messaging sequences, all integrated into the same system. It also automatically updates and tracks contacts along your custom buildable pipelines as they progress along your sequences.
(Now you know why it is called "All-in-one" AI and Automation tool😀)

Even for messaging via email or LinkedIn, with Jobin.cloud ChatGPT is there to help, helping you autoamtically personalize and generate sentences unique to each recipient, automatically and at scale.

A screenshot of Jobin.cloud's "People Finder" feature.

Another well established people profile data aggregator is SeekOut, which is a tool that helps recruiters hunt for hard-to-find, diverse talent.

The platform is suitable for organizations looking to recruit for specialized roles, including those requiring medical licenses, security clearances, and technical expertise.

SeekOut offers a powerful search function to narrow down hundreds of millions of candidates to your exact specifications. It allow the use of Boolean search strings.

The output is a list of profiles that you can easily visualize on your spreadsheet or export into other software tools.

Why choose SeekOut?

• Diverse talent pool: Access to over 330 million underrepresented candidates.
• Specialized search: Filter by specific requirements.
• Integration with HR systems: Builds comprehensive profiles by integrating external data.

SeekOut is a cloud-based talent sourcing solution that helps small to large enterprises source and recruit candidates from across multiple channels. It enables users to filter candidate pools based on work history, location, keyword, education or skills and can even retrieve results using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Key features of SeekOut include talent sourcing, people insights, data import/export and messaging. It allows businesses to accept or reject suggested applicants and add selected candidates to ongoing projects, helping to streamline workflows across the organization. Setting itself apart from competitors is SeekOut's Github sourcing. SeekOut combines users’ GitHub profiles and code contributions with their work experience and education from public profiles to create a complete and searchable view of deep-tech talent. Additionally, managers can utilize the blind hiring module to hide candidates' gender, race or ethnicity details from search results, enabling users to maintain workplace diversity.

SeekOut helps companies get access to candidates' contact information and create personalized outreach emails to improve response rates. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via live chat and other online measures.

hireEZ aims to simplify talent acquisition by enabling jobs to easily target, engage, and hire qualified people. It’s the ultimate choice for recruiters seeking to replace outdated methods.

This tool also casts the limelight on quality engagement. It streamlines your communication efforts toward a pipeline that closely aligns with your vision.

Why choose hireEZ?

• Outbound recruiting: Makes change easy with targeted interaction.
• Simplifies efforts: Replaces the need for outdated methods.
• Quality engagement: Focuses on engaging with the right candidates.

hireEZ (Formerly Hiretual) is an AI-Powered Outbound Recruiting Platform that empowers businesses to achieve their goals by hiring the right people and bringing forth visibility of underrepresented talent. Our Talent Data Cloud is your single source of truth for recruitment, built as a system of native integrations to centralize and refresh siloed data. Experience AI Sourcing across 45+ platforms to go beyond typical resumes and uncover real candidate potential. Build personalized outreach campaigns with sequences, tracking and calendar scheduling for meaningful connections.

hireEZ is a cloud-based recruiting solution that can be used across various industry verticals such as e-commerce, construction, hotel, media and entertainment. Key features include AI-based candidate sourcing, pipeline management and team collaboration.

hireEZ offers AI-based search that provides recruiters with a full profile of relevant candidates present at multiple sources across the web. Users can review the candidate's skill set and reach out to them via email or phone. The solution automatically sorts candidate profiles by new, uncontacted, contacted, phone screen and replied.

Hiring managers can share projects with their team members and track their team’s progress towards each opening. The solution offers integration with Outlook and Gmail that allows recruiters to build email templates for recurring use. Users can customize hiring stages and create email campaigns to attract talent. Services are available on a per month subscription basis with support via live chat and an online knowledge base.

AmazingHiring is a cloud-based solution that helps businesses of all sizes manage applicant sourcing processes across multiple social networking platforms and professional communities, including GitHub, Linkedin, StackOverflow and Kaggle. It allows recruiters to assess candidate skills and experience, and access publicly available contact information to establish communication from within the platform.

AmazingHiring's messaging platform allows HR professionals to access pre-designed email templates, send bulk messages, create email sequences and track campaign outreach metrics. The built-in search functionality uses AI-enabled technology to receive query results based on specific conditions, such as location, specialization and core skills, among other categories. Additionally, it allows teams to create color-coded folders for specific job searches and use drag-and-drop functionality to add selected candidates.

AmazingHiring facilitates integration with several third-party solutions, including GreenHouse, MixMax, SmartRecruiters and more. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via live chat, documentation, email and phone.

LinkedIn is not an aggregator. In LinkedIn, the users themselves add their profiles, and keep them updated in most of the cases.

We added it in this list because LinkedIn provides functionality to search profiles, especially in its premium versions.

In LinkedIn you do not find the total internet population, but for several common recruiting situations, it contains the people most relevant for this purpose.

LinkedIn seems more interested in developing a social communication platform and promoting postings rather than helping people with search activities and direct connection.

For several professional applications, the search functionality offered by LinkedIn is less than optimal (read more here ) or here.

Conclusion

Manually doing everything is so time-consuming that it will soon put you out of business before you become a cyborg yourself 🤖 😀

Fortunately, technology can greatly help in performing data aggregation and data retrieval in a very efficient way.

In this article we discussed some options available.

But, how much does one of these tools cost? What are the prices?

See for yourself - the results may surprise you! 😃