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If an HR pro could take any Hollywood director’s seat, their first blockbuster ever would be “Harry Recruiter and the Sorcerer’s… pardon, the Sourcer’s Tool” (well, we all know the plot). Having no such option, we still have a chance to be impressed learning useful things from real HR heroes. A good place to meet […]

The Sourcing Summit Europe conference took place in Amsterdam recently. A whole conference fully devoted to sourcing – an amazing event for all the recruitment & sourcing enthusiasts around Europe! The AmazingHiring Team visited the Netherlands’ capital and took part in this event. Below we share our impressions and sum up presentations we have managed […]

We at AmazingHiring, not only develop world’s best tool for recruiters, but we also share our knowledge in our blog and send a popular newsletter on recruiting. Now, the number of our subscribers is approaching 6000, but a lot of them have recently complained that our letters don’t reach them. We solved the problem and […]

A couple of weeks ago we held the first European Online Sourcing Hackathon and right now we are ready to reveal the secrets of hacking our sourcing cases. If you know other ways to tackle these problems, don’t hesitate to share them with us. Task 1. I’ve heard about a guy who is the most […]

We continue expanding our new blog section and are happy to share the interview with Matej Matolin, a recruitment expert with a striking background and superior expertise. Enjoy! How did you start recruiting? Why are you still there? I started my career in public relations. I was head of communication at an automotive factory. It was […]

This time, we interview Iker Jusué, the winner of all the major sourcing competitions. Do you want to know his sourcing superpower? Enjoy the reading! You characterize yourself as a “frustrated psychologist, aspiring technologist, amateur marketeer, professional networker & award-winning recruitment lead”.   Speaking about career aspirations, as a kid, what did you want to be? […]

In February, our friends and colleagues from the GMS recruiting agency Alex Isaev and Mary Klimof visited the most famous sourcing conference SourceCon in Las Vegas. They told us the most memorable things about this trip and shared their thoughts on why it is worth attending. The atmosphere, the best presentations, and the current trends […]

We’ll never get tired of making our product better for you. As of March 2018, AmazingHiring is integrated with Mixmax. A few words about Mixmax solution Mixmax is a popular email automation platform for Gmail and soon for Outlook as well. With the help of it, you can easily create and schedule sequences, track emails, […]

Recently we interviewed Susanna Frazier who won the SourceCon Hackathon twice! Let’s hear her secrets of success. Enjoy! At the beginning of your career, you worked as an English teacher in Thailand. Was it a gap year? Tell us a little bit about this experience. And speaking about career aspirations, as a kid, whom did […]

Can’t wait to share the interview with Mark Lundgren, influential leader of the sourcing community. He told us about his sources of inspiration in recruitment and the amazing projects he leads. Enjoy! You are now working in parallel as a Global Sourcer at ThoughtWorks and as a Director at Videre Recruitment Solutions Ltd. Do you have […]

We’ve already talked about email personalization when it comes to passive candidates and explained why it is important. However, even being aware of the importance of personalization a recruiter cannot always find the time to thoroughly study candidates’ backgrounds. Let’s be honest, a recruiter never has enough time for this. Therefore, we decided to tell […]

One of the most famous sourcing community thought leaders answered the questions of our interview. Balazs Paroczay told his career story and shared his sourcing philosophy. Enjoy! You have nearly fifteen years of sourcing experience under your belt, how did you start? What inspires you about this sphere? Hmm… my start was a pretty unorthodox […]

The Spring Stage of our online sourcing championship was unforgettable! The collaboration with SourceCon made this hackathon very special for us and for the participants. Thanks, everyone, you’re great! Right now we are ready to reveal the secrets of hacking our sourcing tasks. If your success strategies were different, don’t hesitate to share them with us. […]

Ivan Stojanovic, formerly known as Irish Recruiter, answered our tricky questions!  His success story is exciting as he is a devoted HR Tech innovator and changes the recruiting world. Enjoy! You characterize yourself as “Scrum Master of Recruitment Innovation”. What does it mean? Speaking about career aspirations, as a kid, what did you want to be? I was always looking at what am I […]

We go on with our sourcing guru interview blog section and are excited to share the story of Karen Azulai! Karen is the famous thought leader of the sourcing community, she speaks at all the major conferences and has unique expertise.  She told us about her background, first public speaking experience, projects she leads, favorite […]

The next Sourcing Summit, the conference which brings together talent innovators from across five continents, will be held this June, on the 20-21, in London. For you to get acquainted with the story of the conference we have interviewed Phil Tusing, the founder of #SOSU. He revealed the secrets of the conference’s success. How and […]

Recently, we have participated in the largest sourcing conference SourceCon in a new location — in Hungary. In the follow-up of the trip, our friends and colleagues from GMS, the IT recruiting agency, Alex Isaev, and Mary Migunof shared their impressions and summarized the most interesting reports. Atmosphere and organization Maisha L. Cannon at SourceCon Budapest Just like […]

Last week, Natalie Berezine, Head of Recruitment Group of GMS, the IT recruiting agency, returned from her trip to Sourcing Summit in London. She shared her impressions of the event with us. This year, more than 150 professionals from various European countries, including leaders of thoughts and sourcers from large international companies, took part in the […]

It has been almost 2 months since the General Data Protection Regulation came into force, but there is still some uncertainty in the interpretation of some of the new rules. The recruiting function is based on collecting and processing personal data, so today we would like to figure out what GDPR means for recruitment and […]

Wikipedia describes Airbnb as a company that operates an online marketplace and hospitality service for people to lease or rent short-term lodging, including holiday cottages, apartments, homestays, hostel beds, or hotel rooms, to participate in or facilitate experiences related to tourism, such as walking tours and making reservations at restaurants. In short, you can let […]

Excited to share the interview with Guillaume Alexandre, a famous sourcing community leader, founder of Gates Solutions, and sourcing competitions winner. Enjoy! Your Twitter alias is @Mr_Sourcing. Looks like you are the perfect candidate for our blog section. How did you start sourcing? Why are you still there? Haha, there is a funny story behind […]

We will not keep you waiting for the next Sourcing Guru Interview! Happy to share the one with Aaron Lintz — speaker at major sourcing conferences, community leader, and Sourcing Challenge Show moderator. Enjoy! How did you start recruiting? Why are you still there? My first exposure to recruiting was making calls after hours for […]

Jonathan Kidder, the founder of WizardSourcer blog, author of Linkedin Revealed, and a dedicated sourcing professional answered the questions of our interview. You define yourself as a mentor, speaker, and author. Speaking about career aspirations, as a kid, what did you want to be? I was really interested in designing robots. There was a show on […]

Excited to share a very special sourcing guru interview! Tom Winter, the Co-Founder of Devskiller, revealed the secrets of screening, testing, and interviewing developers. How did you come up with the idea of Devskiller? What is the mission behind it? Have you ever tried Googling “technical hiring is broken”? Many of the stories you’ll find […]

Recently, we have attended the recruiting conference Hiring Success in Berlin. It was a very inspiring experience and also a great opportunity to learn and network. Our business development managers, Ann Trubitsyne and Asmik Sargsyan, shared their impressions of the trip. *Ann Trubitsyne and Asmik Sargsyan at Hiring Success Main topics Three major topics of […]

Polish sourcing community leader Kasia Borowicz answered the questions of our sourcing guru interview. Recruiting trainer, blogger, community builder and conference speaker – she has many interesting thoughts to share! Enjoy! You define yourself as a social recruiting geek, networking enthusiast and amateur blogger. Speaking about career aspirations, as a kid, what did you want […]

German recruiting community leader Wolfgang Brickwedde answered the questions of our interview. Wolfgang Brickwedde has profound expertise in recruiting and employer branding, he is the founder of the Institute for Competitive Recruiting, speaker, and large-scale industry projects contributor. Enjoy his success story! How did you start recruiting? Why are you still there? Actually, I started to recruit […]

You’re more than likely to not regret reading this post. So, what’s this all about then? A good few years ago, I turned my resume into a Facebook Messenger chatbot, also called a “messenger bot,” “chatbot” or “Facebook bot”. My goal was to create something simple so I figured I’d tackle a subject I know […]

Can’t stop making our sourcing platform better! Great news for the current users of our integration with Greenhouse and for happy future users of both tools. Aimed at creating the best full-cycle recruiting experience we integrate our AI sourcing platform with Greenhouse, the fastest-growing talent acquisition suite. Effectively source tech talents with AmazingHiring and design […]

Let’s move on with our journey to creating the best recruiting experience — today we announce our integration with SmartRecruiters, the enterprise-grade recruiting software! Together with AmazingHiring & SmartRecruiters, you have everything to source, evaluate and hire top tech talents. About SmartRecruiters SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite is used by high-performance organizations for making the best […]

Hi AmazingHiring folks, We are happy to release the update of AmazingHiring Chrome extension: from now on you can turn a candidate’s email address into social media/ professional network profile. AmazingHiring provides information from over 50 networks, so you can easily get an instant overview of the candidate’s social footprint and professional background using only […]

May 2019 sourcing and recruiting professionals from all over the world gathered at SourceCon Europe to discuss sourcing strategies and tactics, learn, and network.  The AmazingHiring team is happy to share with you the most interesting highlights from the speaker keynotes and presentations.  Glen Cathey: Storytelling is the Key to Effective Referral Sourcing Employee referrals […]

The recruiting industry is always changing at a rapid pace and it’s important that you stay up to date on the latest trends. Sourcing revolves around communication and the ability to build networking relationships with others. So, that’s why it’s important to attend sourcing conferences when you have the chance. We’ve created a list of […]

Hung Lee is a well-known sourcing professional and a curator of the famous Recruiting Brainfood newsletter for recruiters, and HR practitioners. Hung Lee has shared his experience of engaging passive IT candidates with us. Listen to this podcast to get insights into: What are the best resources to find tech talents? What should you pay attention to […]

Jiri Herodek is a tech-savvy IT Recruiter and Sourcer with 7+ years of experience in sourcing and recruitment across CEE and DACH region. We spoke with Jiri about the sourcing tools, his work routine, and what makes a sourcer a great professional in the world of digital technologies.  Part 1. Recruiting Tools What tools for […]

We continue to publish our interview with Mark Lundgren. In this part, we’ll speak about the sourcing routine that he is using. How much time should you spend on sourcing? Most of my time goes into researching. At the moment I am working with a client that has many meetings, so my time is split into three […]

Whether you want to learn more about sourcing, job promotion, and employer branding or recruiting techniques, candidate engagement and follow-ups,  there’s a wealth of recruiting knowledge being shared offline and online every day. We are excited to share the best resources to learn something new about recruiting that we have crowdsourced from the sourcing community!  […]

Talent managers know that up to 18% of open positions are closed from an existing database of candidates. Thus it would be fantastic to keep it fresh, right? AmazingHiring Data Enrichment empowers recruiters to enrich incomplete data of tech candidates and get the most from their Github, Stackoverflow or Linkedin networks.  It’s easier to engage […]

The Sourcing community loves nothing more than sourcing tips and unusual ways of finding candidates. Moreover, AmazingHiring fast tracks the tech recruiting process by automating sourcing from all major social and professional networks. Additionally, Amazing Hiring provides an extensive range of hints on how to create elaborate search queries to source the right candidate profiles […]

Leaders and C-level executives are very often those who are behind every important decision about purchasing new sourcing tools. You will love our tool, but leadership wants to get the answer on “How many candidates we will have thanks to the AmazingHiring?” We know that executives are not the actual users – sourcers and recruiters […]

Sourcing Hackathon is an online game where any sourcer, beginner or pro, can compete, show their sourcing power and learn new sourcing tricks! Hackathon masters prepare tricky questions and tasks to pick your brain and boost your sourcing skills. Normally, the time is limited and only the fastest can win! On December 3rd, we have […]

Happy to share our exclusive interview with the influential sourcing guru — Jan Tegze. Jan’s articles, conference performances, and, of course, his book are the infinite source of inspiration for us and for many recruiting fans across the globe. The interview has been conducted in 2018. Enjoy! Jan, we’ve noticed that you have graduated from […]

We are going on with our new blog section and todays’ interview is simply amazing! Hung Lee answered our questions, and we are happy to share his wise thoughts with you. This interview has been conducted in 2018. We have looked through a tons of your interviews with you and luckily understood that no one […]

It’s quite obvious that following-up your candidates is a must-have for every competent recruiter. Not only after the interview is finished, but on each stage of the recruitment process. The most intriguing thing here is how to follow them up to get responses and, preferably, positive ones. AmazingHiring team has been working with tech candidates […]

Let’s face it. Job boards suck. In 2020, there is a zero chance that top engineers will pay attention to your job listings unless you are a tech giant like Google or Facebook. Startups and even established, yet not-so-famous companies can implement the smart recruiting approach to compete for top tech talent.  But how to […]

Today we’d like to introduce you to a strategic approach to AmazingHiring trial. Probably, everyone has been in a situation when the free service trial period has expired, but you have no clear idea whether you should become a customer. We’ll help you to avoid this issue by sharing tips on how to get maximum […]

Dear AmazingHiring fans,  We are happy to announce a new AmazingHiring solution that helps you save time on the candidate engagement better than your ATS can do.  AmazingHiring allows you to immediately interact with the relevant candidates with the highly targeted personalized messages, create the follow-up sequences, and track your outreach metrics.  Let’s dig deeper […]

SourceCon is all about sharing knowledge and insights about sourcing best practices. Even though the event moved online after the Covid stroke the world, the community remains active. While we cannot meet online, we can all read the content produced by SourceCon’ers. In this article. we have gathered the top 5 articles that were recommended […]

What Does AI Recruiting Mean? Adding AI to recruiting is a prospective practice of implementing artificial intelligence technology, like ML (Machine Learning) or complex algorithms of prediction, in order to enhance the hiring process and fill the open roles faster. With the variety of AI tools available, recruiters now can effectively utilize their time and […]

Here is the guidebook by Jiri Herodek on how to use Amazon Web Services and its machine learning module for sourcing and which pros and cons it has. Before we dive into the process let us explain a couple of notions you need to be familiar with before implementing the whole process into your sourcing […]

We interviewed Mark Lundgren, the founder and the host of the Sourcing Challenge Show, and a recruiter with 18 years of experience in tech sourcing and recruitment.  Here, Mark tells what tools he uses for tech sourcing, why he doesn’t like Slack channels, and what is the alternative for LinkedIn Recruiter.  “I always ask myself […]

Today, we’ll speak about the strategy to source IT candidates, social sourcing. The process that was implemented at Thoughtworks is called Agile Sourcing. Here is a template for how Mark works.  Start with research. Identify where the people you need are hanging out. What are you looking for?  Work with the manager and recruiter to […]

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. […]

Recently, we spoke about how to recruit a strong specialist after you’ve searched for them everywhere and with no success. If sourcing in social media and professional networking services has come to naught, it’s high time to install Slack – a popular team messaging application. So how to use Slack for recruiting? How Slack Works […]

This blog post is written Jan Tegze, a sourcer/recruiter, blogger, speaker, and book author with experience in full lifecycle recruiting. During my interview with AmazingHiring team, I was asked: “What makes a person a good recruiter?” My answer was: “Curiosity and passion”, and I strongly believe that. But what are the top characteristics of a great […]

What Are Recruiting Software Tools? Recruiting software helps in-house hiring managers and recruitment agencies to manage and streamline the process of a job posting, sourcing candidates, resume evaluation. Most of the recruiting tools are aimed to automate the recruitment process and the repetitive, tedious tasks that inevitably go along with it. By introducing modern technology […]

We have surveyed our AmazingHiring fans and the sourcing community from all over the world about their favorite recruiting email subject lines that work best for the first contact with a potential candidate. We have picked the most popular and most creative ones. Enjoy the list and feel free to share it with your colleagues. […]

Credentials: Hung Lee and Erin Mathew, a Reddit sourcing expert, had a podcast episode where they’ve discussed the ways of sourcing candidates on Reddit, the largest forum with 330 million users engaged there. We have summarized key ideas and hints on how to source on Reddit + added practical info and boolean strings for you […]

If cold and warm emails to candidates cause you as much pain as they do to us, and you are looking forward to improving your daily performance as an HR or recruiter, this article is for you.

We’ve already told you how to find awesome developers on GitHub or Reddit, and in this handbook, we’ll give you tips on sourcing the best of the best in Stack Overflow and Kaggle. Finding a strong developer is not an easy task. As a rule, professionals of such caliber are in high demand, and it […]

Designers, perhaps more than any other professionals, have to promote themselves and their work online. Even though many designers have their personal websites, a growing number of people publish their portfolios on Dribbble and Behance. Let’s see how to use Dribbble and Behance to search for candidates. Here is our handbook with the guide on […]

Most recruiters see an average candidate response as low as 20%. That’s just 2 out of every 10 people you contact, making for extremely unproductive email strategies. Still, cold emailing remains one of the most effective methods of recruiting new candidates, so what can you do to increase that measly response rate? The first step […]

Social media sites are valuable sources of information for any recruiter. This is especially handy when you have to navigate in a highly competitive niche like software development. There is a massive shortage of talent in this space so that to find and hire the right candidate, you have to be very fast, proactive, and […]

“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” And that’s why recruiters and sourcers like Facebook & LinkedIn groups. These groups are not only a great place for learning and sharing knowledge. It is also a place where you can […]

Great sourcing experts are like great marketers — they follow where potential candidates’ attention goes. Of course, more traditional platforms and social media like Facebook, or LinkedIn, or GitHub are not going anywhere. Yet, new emerging online gathering places for tech talent are noteworthy for sourcing practitioners out there. Over the last years, Telegram has […]

Applicant tracking system (ATS) is a recruitment software that serves departments of human resources and particularly sourcing and recruitment by processing and analyzing massive amounts of job applications and storing all candidate data. The fact that 99% of Fortune 500 companies utilize applicant tracking systems illustrates the importance of this tool. There are a variety […]

This is Part 1 of the Amazing Hiring’s “Guide for Building and Scaling Sourcing in Fast-Paced Organizations”. Here, we take a deep dive into aspects of building a sourcing function in your company and persuading your stakeholders to make solid strategic decisions and efficiently allocate budgets. You may find the full list of topics we […]

According to LinkedIn, the number of candidates who drop-off from the hiring process has increased by 20% in recent years. This trend negatively impacts the size of your talent pool. Moreover, nowadays there are way too many companies to choose from. 62% of millennials believe that if they lose a job today, they will find […]

How hard is it to hire a female senior software engineer in Europe? In search of an answer, we took a deep dive into our 600,000,000 candidates’ profiles database collected from 50+ open sources online.   Using this public data, we singled out senior female software engineers (those who have senior, lead, head, or similar words […]

This is Part 2 of the Amazing Hiring’s “Guide for Building and Scaling Sourcing in Fast-Paced Organizations”. Here, we take a deep dive into aspects of building a sourcing function in your company and persuading your stakeholders to make solid strategic decisions and efficiently allocate budgets. You may find the full list of topics we cover here soon. […]

NB! Clubhouse is a brand new social network, and the information in this article might be not up-to-date. However, AmazingHiring takes great care in keeping this article fresh, so please check the date of the publication to know when the last review has been made. Let’s start! What is Clubhouse, and what the fuss is […]

This article is written by Jiri Herodek, a tech-savvy IT Recruiter and sourcer with 7+ years of experience in sourcing and recruitment across CEE and DACH region. It has been more than 9 years since I have entered the world of talent sourcing and this profession has never stopped to captivate me. I would like […]

This article is a part of our Guide for Building and Scaling Sourcing in Fast-Paced Organizations. We’ve already covered “The first signs you need a sourcing team” and “In-house vs. Agency” topics. Check those out!  We’ve invited James Mottram, Lead talent acquisition and research partner at Elements Talent Consultancy, currently embedded at Monzo Bank, to […]

We have already written plenty about the fact that if you want to find a strong developer, usual sourcing resources are not very helpful: top developers do not search actively for new jobs and do not use regular job boards or LinkedIn. You will have to use specialized sites to find top tech talent. So […]

With this interview, we are expanding our Guide for Building and Scaling Sourcing in Fast-Paced Organizations. You may find other entries to this guide in our blog.  GitLab builds software to help others build software. Their best practices in fulfilling recruitment requirements apply to any fast-paced organization searching for tech talent. That is why today […]

Everybody likes a heartwarming and inspiring success story. If you look at the answers to this question on Quora, there are a few of those. Like the one where a talented developer answered a simple question: “What are the best Python scripts you’ve ever written?”. After the answer had got traction and attention around the […]

Welcome to the newest entry to our Guide for Building and Scaling Sourcing in Fast-Paced Organizations. For this article, we had great help from Kate Hotsyk from A-Players Recruiting to discover her take on the most meaningful baseline skills and qualities every exceptional sourcing professional should possess.  Kate is a Lead Talent Sourcer Consultant with […]

Disclaimer: The article is created based on materials provided by Yves Greijn, Lead Engineering Sourcer (ex-QuantumBlack, now Miro), Neha Naik, CEO of recruitgyan.com, and Monika Nemcova (AIHR, ex-Content Marketer from harver.com) How do you measure your recruiting success? We have prepared an ultimate list of recruiting & sourcing metrics to be checked regularly. All metrics formulas can […]

Recruiting using different social media allows you to not only find quality talent but also engage and connect with them. Sometimes to find outstanding software developers, you need to look for them in places, where not so many recruiters go.  We previously covered best recruiting practices on GitHub, StackOverflow, and even Reddit. We also have […]

Hiring the right employees can elevate your business to new standards. But finding the right employees or candidates is not always easy. Many applicants have vast experiences and backgrounds, but not all may fit well within your company. This is why you need a tech recruiting strategy to cut through the noise and find the […]

There are two types of employees. The first kind shows up to work late, doesn’t put any effort, and waits impatiently for the clock to turn 5:00 p.m. so they can leave the office. The second type is the employees who show up on time, are enthusiastic about their job, and are engaged in their […]

Nowadays recruiting top talent is harder than ever, as the competition between companies only grows. Sourcing requires new creative solutions and going beyond the traditional hiring process. Recruiters should use ways that would attract the right people, who will eventually join great teams in tech companies. Social media channels serve as unique platforms, where tech […]

For Recruitment Leaders in big companies, managing freelance sourcers may be a huge part of day-to-day operations. In this entry to our Guide for Building and Scaling Sourcing in Fast-Paced Organizations, we decided to take a look at the job of a manager of a freelance sourcer from both manager’s and freelancer’s perspectives. We’ll be using help from Vanessa Raath, a freelance sourcer, global talent sourcing trainer, career brand specialist, and coach who kindly agreed to do this interview. 

When looking for exceptional talent, turning passive candidates into active ones is one of the things recruiting departments focus on. However, everyone knows how much harder it is to reach out to passive candidates than to people who are actively searching for a job.  Still, there is no need to say that pursuing passive candidates […]

“As a talent sourcer, it has always been our duty to find unorthodox search methods.” – says Nadine Naidoo of MatcHR (and the author of this part of our Guide for Building and Scaling Sourcing in Fast-Paced Organizations). While talent sourcing grows globally, talent acquisition teams have been investing in tools to ensure that the […]

Sourcing is the key in the hiring process, as it helps the recruiter to find relevant information about the right candidates with experience and skills a company needs. With sourcing, it’s easier to identify if the candidate is actively looking for a job or not. At first, sourcing may seem like a very overwhelming and […]

What the data tells about the 2021 tech labor market While 2020 was a year of layoff announcements and the supply of engineering talent exceeding the demand, at the end of 2020 Microsoft predicted a five-fold increase in the total number of tech-oriented jobs across the world. They were not mistaken. 2021 can now be […]

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace bring many benefits and opportunities to the company. Implementing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy will help to build top teams with diverse talent that will push a company to more success.  Studies have shown that companies with diverse teams have higher financial returns. Moreover, diverse companies are […]

If you are in the business of talent acquisition, chances are you are keen to cut down time spent on manually intensive tasks. We all know, the longer the recruitment process the higher the cost. Sometimes it can feel that sourcing strategies can be bogged down with complex tools that can take time to master. […]

A recruiter’s job is sometimes extremely tough. It is a fast-moving industry with an incredible level of competition among thousands of companies for top talent. Getting through a recruiting funnel might take many months, especially if it comes to finding senior specialists. Hours of sourcing and screening, hundreds of often not enough qualified applicants, dozens […]

It has been 64% more searches of DevOps on the AmazingHiring platform at the end of this year compared to the beginning of 2021. Lots of companies are struggling to find DevOps engineers locally, especially since this is a type of job that cannot be fully remote. We’ve collected some data from AmazingHiring platform to […]

With more people working from home than ever before, finding and retaining talented remote employees is a new challenge for companies across the world. To help you get it right, here’s a guide on how to source the right remote employees for your business and hang on to their services for the long term. Hiring […]

Polish up your sourcing with our new Talent Intelligence feature — a talent market footprint represented by the set of real-time visual dashboards. Starting to source without data for the local talent market is like trying to cross an unknown land blindfolded. Here comes the question: how to get from point A to point B […]

In just a few years the world has changed so much that it took us a huge effort to accept the new reality and adapt to it. Putting aside everything we have been bearing, it merits saying that things are slowly getting better and to some extent, we have managed to adjust. Yet, the world […]

It’s no secret that candidates may not be completely truthful in their CVs or during the interviews. Some may unintentionally lie to make a better impression during the interview. But in the battle to stand out among the competitors, some candidates take it a bit far and fudge the truth. The most common things candidates […]

According to the Stack Overflow “2020 Developer Survey”, 83% of developers are not actively looking for a job and thus, can be qualified as passive candidates. It is no secret that most technical candidates hardly ever update their resumes or even publish CVs on job-related websites. Given that 95% of recruiters globally use LinkedIn to […]

In this blog post, we have gathered a list of books for recruiters, HRs, and anyone interested in building the company culture and work relationships. We hope you will find it useful. Enjoy the reading! Books that Every Recruiter Should Read Lou Adler’s Books As a recruiter, you must have heard Lou Adler’s name a […]

It is no secret that most recruiters source candidates only on LinkedIn. Some of them use Boolean to find professionals who do not update or do not even have their social profiles at all. The next step forward here is to use metasearch engines to cover more sources and, thus, get more results. Metasearch Engines […]

The pandemic brought a lot of challenges to the companies as well as to the HR professionals. Almost every company has faced a huge shortage of staff due to several lockdowns, and now when the situation is getting better, recruiters are responsible for filling  an enormous amount of positions. This is where recruitment marketing automation […]

Current recruitment challenges According to ManpowerGroup’s recent Employment Outlook Survey, the global talent shortage has reached its highest level in the last 16 years. The gap between the number of job openings and people quitting their jobs hit a record-high this March, with 76% of employers around the globe struggling to find talents in 2022.  […]

Studies show that companies that employ more senior females are more profitable, socially responsible, and customer-oriented. Researchers from McKinsey report that gender-diverse companies outperform those that place fewer, or no, women on executive teams. According to their findings, the likelihood of outperformance is 48% higher for the most gender-diverse companies compared to those found rating […]

Why use Twitter for sourcing? The global talent shortage has never been as dramatic as it has been in the last 16 years. New roles are especially difficult to fill when it comes to the tech industry. Software developers, data engineers, and other tech specialists do not have to polish their resumes and actively seek […]

Technical recruitment is a dynamic industry, where needs and trends are constantly changing. AmazingHiring team has introduced new features to bring even more value to recruiters and sourcers and make user experience better and more efficient. Let’s dive into them! Even more candidates to reach out to AmazingHiring database has expanded to include +24% profiles […]

This article is written by Eugeniia Filipovich, a Technical Recruiter, Trainer and Manager with more than 6 years of experience who helped scale some of the most robust global tech sourcing teams at Ciklum, Epam, Sensor Tower and others. As a Recruitment and Sourcing Trainer, I am getting constant requests on how to improve the […]

With OpenAI dominating our newsfeeds and industry trends, the necessity for a more automated sourcing process grows daily. AmazingHiring is bringing special summer updates to ensure your sourcing process is faster and more efficient than ever before. Hiring demands and the situation on the talent market have been changing significantly this past year. We knew […]