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Answered: how many profiles can HeroHunt.ai find?

HeroHunt.ai can find any profile online from the platforms it searches resulting in a reach of 1 billion profiles.

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Why you don't need a LinkedIn Recruiter seat

The assumption that a recruiter needs a LinkedIn Recruiter seat is incorrect. Here's what your best alternative is.

Recruitment Strategies
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Recruitin (Recruit'em): Boolean X-ray search generator

Recruitin is a tool to automatically generate X-ray search strings in Google, here's how to use it.

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LinkedIn Recruiter Lite: full guide (2024)

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite is the stripped down version of LinkedIn Recruiter. Here's what you should know before using and buying.

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LinkedIn Recruiter free trial: how to get it

LinkedIn Recruiter is expensive, everybody knows. But there is a free trial available for a version of LinkedIn Recruiter.

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hireEZ pricing 2024: what does it cost you

hireEZ pricing is hard to find online, so we have summarised hireEZ pricing for you so you know what it could cost you.

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AmazingHiring pricing 2024: what does it cost you

These are the latest pricing indications for an AmazingHiring account.

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The limitations of LinkedIn Recruiter Lite

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite is a really lite product of LinkedIn Recruiter.

Recruitment Strategies
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Automation or Humanization? Tips to Attract the Best Talent

Execute a process manually or let a machine do the work for you? This is what to consider when automating or humanizing a recruiting process.

Recruitment Automation
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7 ways to recognize high-potential employees for your organization

When you can identify high potential employees you'll be able to maximise your entire team's output, here's how.

Recruitment Strategies
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How to use keywords in LinkedIn Recruiter (2023)

A very small difference in how you write a keyword can entirely change your search results. Here's how to include keywords in your LinkedIn search.

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Best LinkedIn Recruiter message templates

Wondering why it's so hard to get a response from candidates? Because everybody is trying. These templates help you stand out.

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Newsletter: Your edge as a tech recruiter

Recruiting is competitive, if you know how to find talent that is less competed for, you win.

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Newsletter: Data driven Recruiting, that actually works 📊

Using people data in a smart way can bring an edge to your recruiting approach.

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Newsletter: SaaS recruiting for next level recruiters

The SaaS model is hot, and that means SaaS talent is high in demand and hard to get.

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Newsletter: Recruit engineers in places no one searches 💻

Good software engineers are a relatively rare breed and high in demand. This is where you can find the unfindable.

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Newsletter: Recruitment's final destiny 👁️‍🗨️

Technology within recruitment has an increasingly big impact on how recruitment is done now and in the near future.

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Newsletter: This is how you do startup recruiting ▶️

Good startup candidates are rare and high in demand. Here's some help on how you can find startup talent with limited resources.

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Newsletter: The best LinkedIn hacks, ever 🤓

LinkedIn is full of surprises, and hacks... This is how to make use of all the free stuff and work arounds in LinkedIn.

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Newsletter: This is candidate outreach that converts 💌

Quality candidate outreach that is personalized and speaks to the candidate can make your recruitment game.

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Newsletter: Master your search 🔎

Building your search with the operators and filters has great impact on your recruiting success.

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Newsletter: We 💙 lists: best sourcing tools & extensions

A day in the life of a recruiter without chrome extensions and tooling is a sad day.

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Newsletter: Platforms rich of tech talent

Newsletter with lists of tech candidate sources and how to use a cross platform sourcing strategy.

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How to automatically generate personalized outreach messages

Manually creating outreach messages takes a lot of time. Here's how to automatically create hyper-personalized messages.

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How to find LinkedIn profiles without LinkedIn Recruiter

This is how to find any LinkedIn profile without even touching LinkedIn (Recruiter).

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How to screen and assess tech candidates

Screening tech candidates is a crucial step in acquiring quality talent. This is a quick but thorough method to screen and assess tech talent.

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How to find GitHub and Stack Overflow profiles

Finding GitHub and Stack Overflow profiles is hard, except when you have the right tool. Here's how to find all GitHub and Stack Overflow profiles.

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How to find contact details of tech candidates

Finding verified contact details of candidates can be hard, but doesn't have to be hard if you use the right method and tool.

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Turn talent data into more and better hires

There's an almost infinite amount of valuable talent data available, but it's not always accessible and usable for recruiters. This is how to integrate talent data into your sourcing and recruiting engine.

Recruitment Strategies
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The 7 best tech recruiting communities

These tech recruiting communities help you stay in tune with the developments in the tech recruiting space.

Market Insights
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Finding and reaching candidates with LinkedIn Recruiter (2024)

This blog explains all the possible methods of recruiting on LinkedIn and answers your most important questions on finding and reaching people on the platform.

Recruitment Strategies
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How to recruit Machine Learning engineers (2024)

Machine Learning engineers are increasingly sought after, so harder to find. This is how to find and recruit Machine Learning engineers anyway.

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What talent assessments are and how you can assess yourself

Stefan van Tulder, founder of Talent Data Labs, sheds light on the world of professional assessments, how they are misused as of now, and how people can take control of their own assessments.

Recruitment Strategies
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Guide to LinkedIn InMails: credits, templates and more (2024)

This is a full guide on how InMails work, what InMails cost, how to write good InMails and what alternatives there are.

Recruitment Strategies
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LinkedIn InMail examples: templates to win candidates (2024)

Your InMail message is one of the most important factors in getting a response from candidates, this is how to write an InMail that people want to respond to.

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LinkedIn Inmail credit: cost, free InMails and alternatives (2024)

LinkedIn InMail credits are for some a survival kit in the recruiting world, but many InMail users are not aware of the actual cost and available alternatives.

Recruitment Strategies
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LinkedIn recruiter lite cost: 2024 pricing

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite is one of the products that comes to mind when selecting a recruiting tool, but how much does it cost and what alternatives are there?

Recruitment Strategies
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Sourcing tool comparison: Seekout vs AmazingHiring vs HeroHunt.ai

Sourcing and recruiting solutions differ in how they are built, what they offer and how flexible they are in terms of pricing. This helps you make the right decision.

Sourcing
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Skills-based hiring to build competent diverse teams

Skills-based hiring assesses talent based on skills, rather than qualifications, and can help you build competent and diverse teams.

Recruitment Strategies
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4 Ways to source the best startup talent

This is a guest blog on startup recruitment from the experts at ISL Recruitment, a trusted UK recruitment consultancy.

Recruitment Strategies
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Remote working and hiring statistics (2022)

These are the answers to your most burning questions on remote working and hiring, answered with data.

Recruitment Strategies
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Remote work in 2023: hire the global workforce

Remote working is everywhere. The world has become your talent pool. Remote gives rise to new work modes, lifestyles and hiring strategies.

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3 simple but crucial questions when recruiting

Only 3 questions count in recruiting: can they do the job? Do they want the job? Do they want the job right now?

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IT Recruitment in 2024: this you should know

IT recruitment is one of the most demanded business functions at the moment, but it is also a very challenging one.

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Startup CTO: role, responsibilities and how to find one

The startup CTO has to bring a lot more than building the product. This guide will describe the CTO persona, the requirements and how you can find them.

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X-ray search in 2024: find any candidate online

This is how to turn a regular search engine like Google into your personal talent search engine using X-ray.

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LinkedIn Recruiter pricing 2024: what does it cost you

These are the latest pricing indications for a LinkedIn Recruiter account.

Recruitment Strategies
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Recruit software engineers: complete practical guide

Software engineers are among the most sought after talent. To win them for you, you have to know where to find them, how to reach them and what attracts them.

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Stack Overflow recruiting: find and contact engineers

Stack Overflow has 18 million engineers asking and answering tech related questions, the perfect place to recruit engineers.

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GitHub recruiting: find and reach engineers

GitHub is infamously hard to search. But with 65 million engineers, you can't miss out. Here's how to recruit GitHub.

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How to send free InMails to candidates on LinkedIn

Using LinkedIn group messages you can send unlimited and free messages to candidates on LinkedIn.

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GDPR in Recruitment: DON’T do this

Every business in the EU has to comply with the GDPR, that also applies to recruiters and noncompliance can cost a business as much as 4% of annual revenue.

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LockedIn Report: tech recruiters' dependency on LinkedIn

We received 100 responses from tech recruiters to the question: What is your dependency on LinkedIn? This is what they answered.

Market Insights
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Hiring tech talent: do’s and don’ts

Hiring tech talent can get quite a challenge, these are the things we have seen work and which don't work.

Recruitment Strategies
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Complete list of candidate sources for tech recruiters

This is your go to list for finding tech talent in untapped and extremely effective candidate sources.

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Recruitment technology: extensive list of software tools

Recruitment technology is on the rise, no one recruiter can do without nowadays. These are the tools you should know of.

Recruitment Automation
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Best chrome extensions for sourcers and recruiters

Chrome extensions are a recruiter's best friend. This is our top 10.

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Digital talent: your best recruitment approach

The creator economy had brought a necessity for digital talent, but who are digital candidates typically and how to find them?

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LockedIn: LinkedIn’s control of our voice and data

LinkedIn has the power to silence people on their platform and eliminate their voice and potentially kill their businesses.

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Diversity hiring: beyond the hype

Diversity hiring has become a beauty contest for companies, here are the true benefits of a diverse team and how you can achieve it.

Point of view
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Machine learning in recruitment: a deep dive

Machine Learning's promise is to find the perfect candidate and assess them without your interference, but what is it exactly and how does it really help you?

Market Insights
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How to recruit tech talent without 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.

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Recruiting statistics 2021: hiring questions answered

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.

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Recruitment’s final destiny

Recruitment is as old as the civilized human race, but it will experience undeniably rapid change, now more than ever.

Point of view
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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

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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 (2024)

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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The workforce of the biggest SaaS companies in the world (2021)

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 (complete boolean guide)

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 2025 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.

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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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LinkedIn x-ray search in 2024

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.

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LinkedIn country codes for your X-ray search (full list)

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

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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 info

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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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 laid-off talent

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: step-by-step guide [2024]

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

Recruitment Strategies
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8 best alternative sources to LinkedIn Recruiter to find talent

Feeling like you're dependent on LinkedIn for recruiting? These are your alternative approaches and platforms to find and reach talent.

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.

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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: 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 recruit tech 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.

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How to find data science 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 use Meetup to find tech talent

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.

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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.

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