Mei Lu

Founder & CEO

Geekology.biz

Founder & CEO, Geekology.biz | Jobfully.com

My work focuses on technology job market

Background info:

MS in Computer Science (University of Pennsylvania)

MS in Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)

Software Engineer -> Software Engineering Manager

Agency Recruiting for SF Bay Area tech companies:

OpenTable, TubeMogul, RockYou!, Interwoven, etc.

(Ruby on Rails full-stack developer – “It’s a hobby.”)

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Don’t have enough high quality candidates replying to job

postings

Shorten time-to-fill

Lower cost-to-fill (i.e. reduce the usage of higher-cost

recruiting solutions)

Highly targeted out-reach (e.g. diversity recruiting, experts

w/ rare skills)

Building a talent pipeline

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Today’s focus – tools (free) and techniques

Why use these tools and techniques?

To find the contact information of passive candidates

without $$$

Can’t rely on LinkedIn InMail

It’s not uncommon to see -

Technical people avoid LinkedIn

Technical people use a “special” email address for LinkedIn

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DevOps Engineer at Wetpaint

Search Engines (Google, Bing, etc.) using Boolean strings

List of People Search Engines -

http://www.findermind.com/free-people-search-engines/

Rapportive.com – very useful for guessing and validating

email addresses

People often list their personal (blog) site on their LinkedIn

profile. You can usually find contact info on these personal

websites.

Github is a great place to find people’s email addresses

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StackOverflow gives you a good idea of people’s expertise

but people don’t use their full name, and

there is no contact information

this means extra research work

Meetup.com

learn about people’s expertise or interest in specific subjects

sometimes linking to other social profiles (LinkedIn, Twitter,

Facebook)

sometimes no full name

contact via meetup.com

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Sourcing takes significant amount of time and effort

It’s important to use your sourcing wisely

Highly qualified candidates

Have a compelling message

How?

Partner with Your Engineering Team

Each week, prepare a list of profiles and get them graded

For each role, ask them why someone should be interested

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Got recruiting/sourcing quetsions?

How to find me - mei [at] jobfully.com

Free resources:

Blog - blog.geekology.biz

Twitter - @g33kology

LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/geekology

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