This is a practical tutorial, inspired by a video lesson from Michal Juhas who searched for a “Backend JavaScript Developer” position in Romania. Michal used LinkedIn and we are going to use DevScanr to search for the same position. At the end we’ll compare our approaches and results.
DevScanr is a new tech talent search and analytics platform. It’s designed for tech recruiters and CTOs / leads who occasionally hire. To help you decide if this tool matches your requirements, we’ve conducted a detailed comparison between it and well known LI Recruiter Lite. An experience with neither platform is necessary to understand the article.
Most recruiters match vacancies and resumes by titles and work history. The idea is that a candidate would be able to transition to a similar title and/or industry more easily. It works, it is time-tested, but it is not the only approach possible. LinkedIn and other resume platforms are undoubtedly an industry standard. But all standards have their limits worth exploring. In this article we’d like to compare good old Resume-based and emerging Skills-first approaches.
Every now and then each recruiter gets negative feedback on candidate’s abilities. It happens after a technical interview, and goes like “The candidate is not Senior, he doesn’t even know the framework!” Then you recheck his perfect resume with Senior React words in title, questioning what went wrong...
When sourcing tech talent on GitHub, it is important to understand how relevant the profile information is. Especially when it comes to location or development experience. There are a couple of tricks recruiters can use to ensure data accuracy.
Many recruiters use GitHub to find developers with proven tech skills, especially when searching for popular technologies such as React. Despite limitations of search functionality, the large pool of candidates makes is an appealing resource. Here’s the basic formula for finding engineers on GitHub...
GitHub was never designed for recruitment. But it’s one of the largest databases of tech talent, so it’s not a surprise that many recruiters use it for their purposes. And sometimes with great results. What if we told you that many GitHub users are non-discoverable via search and that even with elaborate queries you see an insignificant minority of relevant profiles?