How To Use Developer Tools To Send Creative Outreaces (SourceCon Europe 2018)

We use our sourcing skills to find great candidates, but we often forget to spend as much effort in our reach-outs. During this track, I’ll share my thoughts on creative outreaches and share tips and tricks on how to use developer tools (like Codepen) to craft and send great messages.

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3. 1. Platforms 2. Teamwork 3. Creative Messages
4. WHY?
5. “We use our sourcing skills to find great candidates, but we often forget to spend as much effort in our reach-outs.”
8. THE BAD… • “Pretty much any outreach over LinkedIn." • “Templated Messages with the wrong names in it.” • “Directly via phone about PHP. That's like I call a recruiter for a job as my house cleaner….”
9. • Impersonal Message • Templates & Bulk Emails • No knowledge of Developer skills
10. THE GOOD… • “Recruiter found out I’ve been traveling a bunch and what I’ve been working on. So very specific comments and questions on what I’ve been up to.” • “Personal email which shows actual knowledge about skills/requirements” • “A very personal email and a recruiter who investigated me so he knew what I wanted”
11. • Personal • Interest • Research
12. THE UGLY… • “Stop pushing jobs and mass, and make an effort to get personal. PLEASE.” • "Stop tossing meaningless buzzwords around. It makes you look ridiculous.” • "Be respectful and don't treat us as cattle.”
13. Anything else that you would like to say to recruiters? “Get a real job!” https://www.sourcecon.com/a-sourcecon-budapest-preview-i-asked-40-developers-how-they-feel-about-the-messages-they-receive/
14. What they are trying to tell us:
16. 1. Platforms
19. • Homepage • #CodepenChallenge • Popular Projects • Xray Searching CodePen
20. site:codepen.io "followers" "pens" "projects” -inurl:followers "hire me" ("Belgium" | "Germany" |"Netherlands")
21. site:codepen.io "followers" "pens" "projects" -inurl:followers "hire me" (”Belgium" | "Germany" |"Netherlands") "followers" "Pens" -inurl:followers "Hire me" Locations
22. site:codepen.io "followers" "pens" "projects" -inurl:followers "hire me" ("belgium" | "Germany" |"Netherlands")
23. Gitter.im • Open source instant messaging platform for developers and Github Repository users • 800K+ people waiting for your message
26. https://github.com/trending
27. https://github.com/trending Stargazers
28. Followers & Following
29. Other great places: • HackerNews • Newsletters • Medium
30. HackerNews • HackerNews • Who is hiring • Who wants to be hired
31. Newsletters • Newsletters
32. Medium • Medium
34. 2. Teamwork
37. WHY?
38. • Time • Input • Involvement
39. Teamwork https://www.sourcecon.com/budget-sourcing-101-building-a-talent-pool-in-github We’re all in this together
40. 3. Creative Outreaches
43. 1. Found RythmJS on GitHub Trending. 2. Found the Twitter account of the creator 3. Found a tweet with a link to CodePen https://codepen.io/Okazari/full/QvmLXO/ Case 1. RythmJS
45. Check this out at home! Turn your volume on! http://bit.ly/rythmjs
46. http://bit.ly/pokirythm ← result here….
47. 1. Positive response 2. Shared our blog on twitter 3. Interested in learning more
49. I went to their platform, and used the social media sharing link
61. https://www.linkedin.com/in/svdtooren https://twitter.com/Sjamilala hello@sjamilla.me Let’s keep in touch:
62. • CodePen example you can fork: https://codepen.io/pokinl/pen/rvrEqJ • MixMax: https://mixmax.com/ • My example recruitment repo on Github: https://github.com/Sjamilla/recruitmentexample • http://bit.ly/amazingoutreaches Extra