Mei Lu is the founder and CEO of Geekology.biz and Jobfully.com, which focus on the technology job market. She has advanced degrees in computer science and engineering and worked as a software engineer and manager. Her presentation provides tools and techniques for finding contact information of passive candidates without spending money, such as using search engines, Rapportive, GitHub, StackOverflow and Meetup. She emphasizes validating candidates' qualifications and having a compelling message for outreach.

1. Mei Lu
Founder & CEO
Geekology.biz

2.  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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3.  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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4.  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

6.  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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7.  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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8.  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 withYour EngineeringTeam
 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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9. 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
 Newsletter - Monthly Top 3Tech Recruiting Articles
Sign up at www.geekology.biz
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