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Issue 3: Up your sourcing game with these top tools
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Struggling to find top talent?
The secret isn't more time, it's better technology.
Discover the game-changing solutions in this weeks issue.
Let's delve into the world of talent sourcing tech.
Continue reading and don’t forget to click on the links to discover more about each tool.
🛠️Tools of the Week🛠️
hireEz - Gem -Shortlyst - Fetcher - ContactOut
hireEZ (previously Hiretual) is an AI-powered outbound recruitment platform to help you break free from outdated recruiting systems and help jobs find people. With hireEZ, you can execute a strategically scalable approach to build your workforce of the future.
Experience AI Sourcing across 45+ platforms to go beyond typical resumes and uncover real candidate potential. Build personalized outreach campaigns with sequences, tracking and calendar scheduling for meaningful connections. And unify your recruiting tech stack with a system of native integrations to centralize and refresh siloed data.
What we like about hireEZ: Not only does hireEZ help with direct outsourcing by searching across 45+ different platforms, it then helps automate the actual outreach tasks, with email templates and workflow sequences. the platform also offer tracking so you can see when candidates are engaging with your messaging, with open and click-through rate reporting.
đź’ˇGem - In their own words:
Gem helps talent acquisition teams hire with remarkable speed and efficiency. Our platform transforms recruiting into a strategic, data-driven function and gives every part of the organization the tools to drive results and showcase their impact.
With Gem, teams can automate and personalize candidate communication, unify all recruiting touchpoints into a single system, and get usable data across the entire hiring process.
It's why over 1,200 industry leaders, including Wayfair, Dropbox, Cintas, Robinhood, and UnitedHealth, trust Gem to fuel their growth.
What we like about Gem: OK Gem is more of a full CRM platform, but we’ve heard good things about their sourcing feature, which is why we just had to share it. Integrated with a good number of sourcing platforms, you can also use workflow automation to personalise and automate outreach, and allow hiring managers and stakeholders to view and collaborate on current pipelines
đź’ˇShortlyst: In their own words
Shortlyst helps recruitment organisations to search, engage and hire the right candidates faster and in a cost-efficient manner so they can close more positions, improve their cost and time to hire, and maximize their bottom-line.
Shortlyst offers recruiters of every company size a clean and accurate candidate database containing 650M+ candidate profiles and its contact information, combined with the ability to automate their engagement with candidates while also avoiding double-reach-out among other team members, and a two-way ATS sync to reduce time spent on doing admin tasks.
What we like about Shortlyst: Slightly less candidate profiles to attach than EzHire at 650 million, but the costs are a lot lower too! Use the AI search tool and get profile recommendations that use 15 smart filters to find your perfect candidate.
đź’ˇFetcher: In their own words:
Our mission at Fetcher is to make it fast, easy and fun for organisations to find the right person, for the right job, at the right time.
We help high-growth companies find the candidates whose talents, interests and experience best match the needs of the job and the culture of the team. We believe when the right person is in the right role, real magic happens.
We built Fetcher to reduce the pain and expense of hiring so that organisations can focus their time on attracting talent and nurturing the growth and development of their people.
Fetcher's full-service, candidate sourcing and recruiting automation platform brings qualified, interested candidates directly to your inbox - fast. Our AI-powered platform learns your company's candidate preferences and then identifies top talent just for you. The platform even automates email outreach campaigns to secure interested candidate interviews for you and your team.
With DE&I features that limit bias in every search, Fetcher has become one of the best AI tools for recruiting diverse, top talent at every level. Whether you're looking to add recruiting tools for sourcing to your HR tech stack, or just in need of recruiting automation software to save you time, Fetcher has you covered.
What we like about Fetcher: Fetcher takes away another mundane task, this time its actually configuring the search. We’ve all been there, trying different configurations of Boolean strings to hone in on that perfect candidate like a heat seeking missile. With Fetcher you can upload your job description, provide a little feedback (I mean you have to so dome work) and sit back and let their AI tool take of the rest, hopefully returning you back a list of relevant profiles.
đź’ˇContactOut: In their own words
At ContactOut, we pride ourselves on being the most accurate contact data intelligence tool out there. Find emails and phone numbers for 300M professionals, including B2B data for 30M companies.
Our platform is trusted by 1.4M sales, marketing, and recruitment professionals in over 76% of Fortune 500 companies like Google, Microsoft and Netflix.
Our key features are designed with users in mind, so you can easily:
1) Find quality prospects fast all in one place with our Search Portal
2) Supercharge your LinkedIn prospecting with our Chrome Extension
3) Personalize and automate their outbound messaging with our Email Campaign
Our platform is the perfect way to take your business to the next level. With our powerful tools and accurate data, you'll be able to reach more prospects than ever before and see real results.
What we like about ContactOut: Search candidates through the search portal, use the Chrome extension to access candidate details, and then add them into your out reach campaign. We also like the traffic light system that lets you know whether a specific contact detail is good to go.
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