Where and how to find IT candidates

1. Searching

2. Sources
• Social network, forums, groups (Ln, fb,
twitter,, google+, odesk/elance,
stackoverflow, slideshare, dou.ua)
• SaaS (Branch out, bullhorn reach)
• Job site (work.ua, rabota.ua)
• Data base (Jira)
• Referral (ext/int)
• Commercial site (lohika.com.ua)
• PR activity (community/conferences)
• Software (Skype)

3. Linkedin
www.linkedin.com
• Develop and expand a personal network of professionals
• Stay in touch with former, valued, trusted colleagues for potential
future employment relationships
• Actively search for candidates among LinkedIn members by
searching on keywords
• Develop a complete, keyword-rich profile for your company on
LinkedIn
• Search for potential employees by past or current employer
• Search for employees based on references from recommenders
you trust

4. • Can ask your current employees to activate their networks to reach
out to potential passive candidates for jobs
• Can use Inmail, your internal inbox at LinkedIn
• Can join groups at LinkedIn
• Can post jobs on LinkedIn
• People seeking employment can search LinkedIn free of charge

5. BranchOut
www.branchout.com

6. Bullhorn Reach
www.bullhornreach.com

7. Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/
• Create you account (photo, bio)
• Tweets (articles, vacancies, interesting facts, events)
• Following and followers
• Search:
o Advanced search
o http://tweepz.com/

8. Google search operator

9. Dou.ua
www.dou.ua

10. Google+
plus.google.com

11. www.odesk.com
www.elance.com
www.freelancer.com
www.guru.com

12. Stackoverflow
www.stackoverflow.com

13. SlideSharewww.slideshare.com

15. Position title
• Java/Python/C/C++/PHP: Junior/Associate-Middle-Senior Java
Developer
• Java, Java Engineer/Software Developer, Back-end Developer.
• Front-End: Web UI Developer/Engineer, Front-end
Engineer/Software Engineer, UI Developer.
• QA: QA Engineer, Quality Assurance, Manual QA, Manual Test
Engineer, Test Engineer, QC.
• AQA: Junior-Middle-Senior Automation QA/QA Automation, AQA,
AQA Engineer, Automation Engineer, Test Automation
Engineer/Lead, Software Automation Test Engineer, QA/QC.
+ Name/Surname + Company + Technology

16. Useful Information
1. Maxim Ivanov’s blog http://goo.gl/oblafb
2. Victor Soroka’s blog http://italabre.blogspot.com/
3. Laurence Hebberd’s blog http://goo.gl/nnMBmc
4. How to Recruit Using Github http://goo.gl/xdnt7z
5. Boolen Black Belt http://booleanblackbelt.com/
6. Use LinkedIn for Recruiting Employees http://goo.gl/PzRV5
7. The Beginner's Guide to Twitter http://goo.gl/QvKdC
8. Twitter & Facebook Guide Books http://goo.gl/DCfrx
9. Google search operator & li x ray http://goo.gl/KXMEha