LinkedIn Recruiter: best alternative platforms
Sourcing talent on LinkedIn only? These are alternative platforms with big pools of untapped talent that you can source.
The many alternatives to LinkedIn for recruiting tech talent
Many recruiters rely on LinkedIn for their recruitment targets.
But LinkedIn is not the only platform to source talent on.
Many platforms are overlooked as sourcing platforms. They might not be necessarily designed for recruitment, but you can find talent if you know how to search them.
And the best part is that most of these alternative platforms provide information on professional activity of the candidates that is richer than the information on LinkedIn.
These are the best alternatives to LinkedIn on recruiting talent.
GitHub
GitHub is the platform with the most active engineering users, beating LinkedIn and any other platform. A goldmine of rich and up to date candidate information.
Key facts
- Engineer profiles including activity
- 65 million users
- Publishing of code repositories including tech tags
How to recruit talent on GitHub
Stack Overflow
With 14 million developers and rich technology skills information based on Q&A’s, Stack Overflow is a must for sourcing tech talent.
Key facts
- Engineer profiles including activity
- 14 million users
- Up to date tech skills data based on tech Q&A activity
How to recruit talent on Stack Overflow
The Redditors community is one of the biggest online communities today with 330 million users. Redditors engage in comical, but also professional discussions. When understood, it provides a good opportunity for sourcing talent.
Key facts
- All profiles
- 330 million users
- In depth informal discussions on subject matter topics
How to recruit talent on Reddit
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