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Recruiters tend to spend a lot of time on monotonous tasks like aligning calls, sourcing candidates’ emails and phone numbers. However, these days many online tools can make a recruiter’s life much easier. Here are the top FREE solutions every recruiter should know about in 2022!

Best free sourcing solutions 

Using top sourcing tools helps recruiters save a lot of time on finding and getting all the needed information about the candidates.

AmazingHiring

AmazingHiring Chrome Extension is a professional AI-based tool, which recruiters use for sourcing tech specialists, as it allows them to easily get candidates’ social media profiles. AmazingHiring indexes major networks, such as GitHub, Stack Overflow, Kaggle, Dribbble, Behance, Google+, Rubygems, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, etc. With a paid license you can get all the needed information about candidates’ professional background and their contact info — request a demo to learn more about the platform.

Email Finder by VoilaNorbert

Email Finder by VoilaNorbert is a Chrome extension that finds the email addresses of your prospects as you’re visiting their websites. You can then export your leads, add them to custom-made lists, and contact candidates directly from Norbert. There are also advanced tracking tools to know if a candidate opened or even clicked on your email. The 50 first searches are free.

Hello Talent

Hello Talent allows you to source and qualify candidates anywhere you find them on the web and add them to collaborative talent pools. As you add a profile to Hello Talent, you can then enrich it using different tags, status updates, comments as well as ratings.

Discoverly

Discoverly helps recruiters compile more complete social contact info compared to those online profiles they normally view. Discoverly is an amazing tool for recruiting professionals and those looking to find a certain email address. You can also see contacts’ work info, mutual connections, friends, and tweets on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Top scraping Chrome extensions

Scraping is the process of collecting structured data on the web. These Chrome extensions will make scraping effortless and provide all the needed data in the right format.

Dux-Soup for LinkedIn Automation

Dux-Soup for LinkedIn Automation is a software, which recruiters can use to find leads and engage with prospects on LinkedIn. It saves hours of manual data entry. It comes in handy when you try to track all the prospects you interact with on LinkedIn. Thanks to Dux-Soup, you can also auto-visit profiles of LinkedIn users based on Google or LinkedIn searches.

Web Scraper – Free Web Scraping

Web Scraper – Free Web Scraping is a web data extraction tool with an easy-to-navigate interface. Web Scraper can extract large volumes of data from a website in just a few minutes. You can set up which data should be extracted without the need to have any additional plugin installed.

Instant Data Scraper

Instant Data Scraper is an automated data extraction tool, which uses heuristic AI to predict which data is most relevant on an HTML page. It also allows saving this data to Excel or CSV files. Instant Data Scraper does not require website-specific scripts.

Data Scraper – Easy Web Scraping

Data Scraper is a Chrome extension for data scraping that lets you scrape any HTML page on the web. Tables and lists can be extracted from any page. You can then upload them to Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel. You can use Dataminer Scraper for free in the starter subscription plan with 500 free page-scrape credits per month. There are also paid plans with more scraping features available.

Hunter – Email Finder Extension

Hunter is a powerful email-finding tool. You can find email addresses from anywhere on the web using Hunter. It also includes the most common email pattern used, department filters, and public sources. Hunter gives you 25 free searches per month. For more, you need to upgrade your account.

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Meeting scheduling solutions

As a recruiter, it’s important to stay organized especially when it comes to scheduling interviews with candidates. These solutions will help you streamline this process.

Calendly: Meeting Scheduling Software

Calendly is a tool that is aimed to simplify the process of scheduling a meeting. It connects with your personal and business calendars, making organizing an important meeting easy and hassle-free. Chrome extension allows you to access Calendly directly from your Gmail and set up meetings or share links to the scheduling page. 

Hypercontext: Meeting Agendas and Notes

Hypercontext: Meeting Agendas and Notes is an all-in-one solution for managing your meetings and teams. This extension is a must when you have to organize and run important meetings, as it allows you to keep track of small details and make sure all participants are on the same page.  

With Hypercontext you can easily create agendas using available meeting templates. Once the meeting is over, attendees receive meeting notes automatically. More features are available in the basic plan which costs $5.60/month.

Chrome extensions for email writing

Email writing plays a significant role in communication between a recruiter and a candidate, that’s why it’s worth using top email tools, including:

Grammarly

Grammarly is a well-known tool that helps you fix grammar, spelling, and punctuation issues.  With Grammarly, you can revise sentences that are grammatically correct but unclear. It’s free to use, but there is also Grammarly Premium with more comprehensive feedback.

Boomerang for Gmail

Boomerang for Gmail is an ultimate email productivity tool to make sure your email was viewed and to be reminded to follow up. You can schedule an email and get recommendations from the AI for better emails. Inbox Pause feature helps you get focused by temporarily delaying the arrival of messages. It’s free to use for a limited number of messages per month.

Accompany for Gmail

Accompany for Gmail is a tool that offers rich profiles on everyone in your inbox. When using this extension, you can see information about the sender next to their message. Just by hovering over anyone’s name, you can learn where they work, what they do, and a brief history of their career.

RightInbox: Email Reminders, Tracking, Notes

RightInbox: Email Reminders, Tracking, Notes is a next-level email productivity tool. You can schedule emails to be sent later, use templates, see who opens your emails and clicks on the links, send sequences with follow-ups that automatically get sent when a contact doesn’t reply, etc. 

Right Inbox is free to use. However, you only have 10 emails per month and the features are limited. A monthly subscription costs $7.95 for unlimited emails and features.

Clearbit Connect – Supercharge Gmail™

Clearbit Connect – Supercharge Gmail is a widget that shows you useful information about the people who send you emails. It also helps you find someone’s email address without the need to leave your inbox. Simply type the name of the organization you want to connect with and Clearbit Connect provides you with available contacts at that company.

Streak CRM for Gmail

Streak allows you to manage sales and customer relationships directly inside Gmail. There are GSuite integrations to help you access needed data quickly. Streak allows you to create better workflows and improve collaboration, as it makes it easy to share information with other team members without the need to switch between different applications.

Best productivity tools for recruiters

The whole recruiting process can get very time-consuming and challenging, so professionals need to stay productive and efficient with their resources.

Productivity Owl

Productivity Owl is a productivity tool, which allows you to visit a website for a certain amount of time, and then it closes the tab. If a website you’re viewing is not on the allowed/blocked lists, you’ll have a strict period of time to use it before the extension closes your tab.

StayFocusd

StayFocusd is another productivity extension, which restricts the time you spend on certain websites, where you usually tend to waste your time. Once your allotted time is up, you will not be able to access the websites for the rest of the day. You can block or allow entire websites as well as specific subdomains, paths, pages, and even specific in-page content.

Clockify Time Tracker

Clockify Time Tracker is an extension that helps you to track time from anywhere on the web with one click to improve productivity. And later you can analyze and export the time. You can use Clockify on different devices and all your tracked data will be seamlessly synced between them in real-time. This timer integrates with 50+ web apps and helps you manage projects and monitor progress.

OneTab

OneTab is a tool that converts all of your open tabs into a simple list. And when you want to access the tabs again, you can restore them individually or all at once. This extension allows you to save up to 95% memory on your laptop and reduce tab clutter, increasing your productivity.

Tomato Timer

Tomato Timer is a Pomodoro technique timer. Use this tool when you need to work on important tasks. You can set your Tomato Timer for 25 minutes or more and fully immerse yourself in the task. This extension also allows you to block domains, so you could focus on something that needs your fullest attention.

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Conclusion

Sourcing the best talent in 2022 is a challenging task, however, using free professional tools will allow you to focus on the most important while having all mundane tasks covered. We hope that the Chrome extensions we’ve shared will make your work faster and much easier.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. 

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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 […]

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“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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.  […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]