Jonathan Kidder: He’s Back! Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters

Jonathan Kidder – the “Wizard Sourcer” is back! He’s published two books since we last spoke – “Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters” and “A Guide to Diversity Talent Sourcing”

In this episode of Recruiting Trailblazers – Marcus quizzes Jonathan on Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters – the tools he recommends for different aspects of the job.

Episode Highlight

1:25- Introduction

2:07- The inspiration and reason behind Jonathan’s book

4:08- Evernote as a great tool for LinkedIn               

5:30- Evernote and its integration on LinkedIn

6:32- Top few ATS tools recommended for an agency or in house

6:39-  Loxo and its different integrating features

7:23- Airtable, a great personal ATS tool for in-house, plus Greenhouse, Jobvite and Salesforce

8:57- People search engines – PeoplePro, Spokeo, ZoomInfo  

11.30- Free tools: Free People Search Intellus Peoplesmart 

12.00- Contact finding extensions: Hiretual, Seekout purchase from PeoplePro and Spokeo

13.00 Lusha, Nymeria, Improver, Swordfish (get the book – there are loads!)

14:20- LinkedIn and how they view these tools

15.25 – Connectifier, TalentBin

16:43- Candidate outreach tools and email automation – primer on outreach

18:00- Take the time to personalize emails!

19.50- What percentage of messages are personalized?

21:43- Gem and its features as a top candidate outreach tools

22:19- Intersellar and its integration

24:34- Sourcewhale and its integration

25:03- The power of InMails – great for follow ups.

27:35- Recommendations of things for people to automate in order to save time and remain safe on LinkedIn

28:44- Tools to reach 1st degree connections MyRobot.works, Machinesourcer, PhantomBuster)

30:20- PhantomBuster and the meaning of web scraping and how it works

32:01- Recommended Boolean Generators-Recruitin.net

33:39- Email tracking tools- Saleshandy

35:00- Writing tools -Textio, Joblint, Gender Decoder, Graammarly

36:50- Scheduling tools -Calendly, Mytime, Setmore, Appointlet

38:44- How to get the book (Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters)

40:00- An overview of the second book “A Guide to Diversity Talent Sourcing”

42:26- Conclusion