An 🕶 awesome-list of tools and information for talent acquisition professionals. Not everything here has been tested and the maintainer of this list does not endorse anything listed. If something doesn't work out the maintainer of this list is not responsible.
I also share resources at my website, alicornhunt.com.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Boolean and X-ray (Search Tools)
- Career Communities
- Grammar
- Lists
- Resumes
- Tracking and Management Systems
- Contributing
- License
Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., is a fast growing sector of the talent acquisition community. Using machine learning technology and algorithms, the computer does some of the recruitment work for you.
- hireEZ AI Sourcing - hireEZ’s AI Sourcing sorts and ranks best-fit talent on the open web so you don’t have to spend hours scrolling through irrelevant candidate profiles.
paid - Rytr - An AI content generator with an option to generate a job description with nothing but a job title.
freepaid - Sparkles the Alicorn - Chat with Sparkles the Alicorn. A custom Zapier AI chatbot brought to you by Alicorn Hunt.
free
Boolean searching is a method of symbolic logic developed by George Boole, a 19th century English mathematician. Boolean searches allow you to combine words and phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT (known as Boolean operators) to limit, broaden, or define your search. This type of searching is also referred to as a x-ray search.
- hireEZ Boolean Search Builder - A free basic boolean search string generator.
free - RecruitEm X-Ray Search - Fill in some fields and conduct a search of Linkedin profiles.
free - Recruitment Geek Xray Search Tool - A free Linkedin X-ray search tool. Type in some keywords and a location and get Linkedin profile results. A premium version is also available.
freepaid - Signal Hire - Find e-mail addresses and phone numbers using a Google Chrome browser extension.
paid - theBalazs' Boolean Builder - A public Google spreadsheet that helps you build a boolean search string (both standard and Linkedin style).
free - IDCrawl - A people search engine which allows you to search for people, usernames, and phone numbers.
free - Free People Search Tool - A Google Custom Search tweaked to help you perform X-ray type people searches.
free
Career Communities are online communities or social networks that are geared towards people's professional lives. The most common example is LinkedIn.
- LinkedIn - A popular social network for people to share their work experience and happenings.
freepaid - Alicorn Hunt - An independent online community for recruiters and talent.
free - Polywork - A social network similar to LinkedIn except that it is geared towards people who have multiple jobs. It's great for creators, consultants, freelancers, and more.
free
The Grammar category lists tools that help spell check, improve writing, and/or do things such as detect gender bias.
- Grammarly - Free online writing assistant. It integrates with your computer and/or browser and checks your grammar in real-time as you type (not just spelling).
free - Job Lint - Test tech job posts for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails.
free - Job Page Grader - See how good your job description is and how to improve it. Paste any of your job page URLs into a box and check it against 80 proven performance criteria that affects whether someone applies for that role or not.
free - Job Title Thesaurus - Enter a job title and see a list of similar job titles.
free - Total Jobs Gender Bias Detector - Paste in the job description and this tool will show you have many female-coded and male-coded words there are. By replacing male-biased language with our neutral or female-coded suggestions, your job advert will appeal to more people and generate more applications.
free - NeutralizeIt - A Chrome, Opera, Brave, and Edge browser extension which automatically replaces gender coded words with neutral ones as your browse the web.
free
Lists similar to this one.
- Awesome Recruitment by Sjamilla - A list of talent acquisition resources by Sjamilla van der Tooren.
free - WizardSourcer Free Sourcing Tools - A large list of tools for recruiters with the ability to download a CSV file of the list.
free
Tools related to resumes / CVs.
- Rezi Linkedin Profile to Resume Chrome Extension - Using Google Chrome, install this extension then convert a Linkedin Profile to a resume.
free - GitHub README Resume - An example of how you could use a free GitHub repository and a README.md file to create a minimal resume.
free - JSON Resume - The JSON Resume standard.
free - JSON Resume Tools / Generators - JSON Resume Generator and other related tools by Alicorn Hunt.
free - NON-AI Resume Summarizer - Paste in a resume and get the total years of experience, top skills, and contact information in seconds. All without using AI or sending the data anywhere. The tool works within your own browser.
free
Applicant Tracking Sysems and Customer Relationship Management systems allow recruiters to keep track of applicants, leads, post jobs, interview, extend offers, and more.
- hireEZ - An AI-powered outbound recruitment platform that centralizes all recruiting efforts for hiring teams big and small to make outbound recruiting easy. Experience fast and simple AI Sourcing across 800M+ open web profiles and 45+ platforms. Automate and build personalized recruitment campaigns with templates, sequences, tracking, and calendar scheduling.
paid - Workable - Modern applicant tracking system with all of the bells a whistles from automation to assessments and scheduling.
paid - Zoho Recruit - For free you can post a job and track applicants. If you start to pay you unlock the ability to post more jobs and even get A.I. and interviewing features.
freepaid
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