Resume Sourcing: How to find passive technical candidates

Posted by Jim Stroud
November 7, 2008

RESUME SOURCING TIP OF THE DAY
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Q: Jim, I think I have seen every resume on Monster and every resume on the web for (insert technical skillset here) and my req’ is still open. I need to find some developers that are hidden away that no one else has found yet. Can you help me out?

A: Sure! Look for obscure technical keywords related to the skillset you are looking for in various online forums. Check out who is writing about them and reach out for their resume. For example, say I wanted to find some programmers discussing “while loops” and their emails (so I can contact them) at the same time. Click here to see what I would do.

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Not sure what technical terms you are in the market for, but take a peek at the Technical Cheatsheets below. There may be something in this collection that may be able to help you. Simply replace “while loop” and programming in the example I gave earlier with other technical terms. You may also want to experiment with different email extensions. For example, using “*@gmail.com” instead of hotmail. Just a thought…

Of course, after finding these people, contact them via email and begn recruiting. (smile)

Technical Cheatsheets

Here are a bunch that I found (mostly) on Smashing Magazine and Real World:

Ajax

Apache

ASCII Character Codes

ASP

BROWSER

C# and VB.NET

CSS

CVS

C++

Django

Firefox

Google

HTML/XHTML

Java

JavaScript

Microformats

Misc

MySQL

Oracle

Perl

Photoshop/Gimp

PHP

Python

Regular Expressions

Ruby

Unix/Linux

Weblog

Windows

XML

Oh, two more things!

Want an idea for what mail services to add to your search? For example “@hotmail.com,” then here is some inspiration.  Click here for a list of the Top 17 free web-based email services.

What is a “while loop?” (Just in case you wanted to know…)

In most computer programming languages, a while loop is a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given boolean condition. The while loop can be thought of as a repeating if statement.

Source: Wikipedia

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Comments
Comment by Jason on November 9, 2008 @ 6:26 pm

Jim, let me make it much easier for your reader. Have them use our keyword sourcing tool. We have over 70,000 keywords so instead of thinking or trying to find keywords we give them to you.

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