How to Source Tech Candidates with AmazingHiring Extension

By Yulia Kuzmane 21.07.2022 3 minutes to read

AmazingHiring Chrome Extension is a professional sourcing tool that finds tech specialists’ social media profiles, contacts, and information about their professional background with one click.

Profiles found: front-end developers, back-end developers, IOS, Android, data scientists, QA engineers, UI/UX designers, DevOps and tech specialists.

Let us take a look at the AmazingHiring extension features in details.

Here’s what it helps recruiters and sources to do:

1. Find IT Talents’ Social Media Accounts

The Extension indexes GitHub, Stack Overflow, Kaggle, Dribbble, Behance, Google+, Rubygems, Quora, Slideshare, Facebook, Twitter, and more than 40 other professional and social networks.

You can easily review the whole footprint of the candidate in social media getting more knowledge about them and their activity in professional communities.  

2. Get information about the prospect’s current job and location

AmazingHiring plugin provides you with information about the candidate’s current location and position, which are the best starting points for a recruiter to review the prospect’s profile.

3. Get access to the candidate’s direct contacts

The plugin gives you access to candidates’ publicly available contacts including phone numbers and emails (if you have search feature).

4. Integrate the Extension with any ATS

AmazingHiring enables you to find a candidate’s full profile by their email address on any website or ATS, just highlight the email and choose “search by email in AH” in the right-click menu. Let’s see how it works:

In the ATS

In Google Spreadsheets

On Facebook

5. Manage the prospects right in the Extension

Manage the best prospects easily by grouping them into vacancy folders. Add comments or view them in candidates’ profiles or see your colleagues’ comments.

AmazingHiring extension as an add-on to the AmazingHiring platform. You may need to request access to the platform to see the extension functionality in full power.

Otherwise, install AmazingHiring Extension with limited functionality. It is free and will never stop working when you need it.

Yulia Kuzmane Head of Sales & Customer Success @ AmazingHiring Yulia is in charge of AmazingHiring's successful growth in the European region, partnering with many IT companies and recruitment agencies that are willing to re-engineer their sourcing and recruitment processes. Before joining AmazingHiring, Yulia was an HR Business Partner at several IT companies, responsible for international recruitment and relocation processes. She holds a Master’s degree in Nationalism Studies from Central European University and is a visiting lecturer at Ventspils University teaching the “International Human Resources Management” course to MBA students.

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AmazingHiring is an AI-based solution for tech recruiters to source passive IT candidates across the web. It aggregates IT profiles from 50+ networks like GitHub, Stackoverflow, Facebook, Kaggle, etc. using Boolean operators, and provide recruiters with candidates’ professional background, contacts, skills. 

AmazingHiring empowers recruiters to double their pipeline and improve their sourcing metrics. 

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