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21. Searching social profiles
Construct queries tailored to LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, and other public profiles to source passive candidates.
Sourcing / Talent Acquisition
Searching social profiles
Finding and filtering public social and developer profiles to identify passive candidates using tailored search queries and profile signals.
"I need to find experienced engineers who don't apply to jobs — where do they hang out and what tells me they're a fit?"
Searching social profiles means constructing targeted queries and using platform-specific filters and signals (job titles, repo activity, posts, location) to discover and qualify passive candidates on LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, and similar sites.
"I need to find experienced engineers who don't apply to jobs — where do they hang out and what tells me they're a fit?"
Searching social profiles means constructing targeted queries and using platform-specific filters and signals (job titles, repo activity, posts, location) to discover and qualify passive candidates on LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, and similar sites.