🤫 Hidden LinkedIn search trick you might not know

Tips to post on LinkedIn(best time and hashtags), messaging best practices for LinkedIn outreach, short-guide to sourcing on Twitter, FREE LinkedIn prospecting tool, increasing offer-join ratio & more

Jul 23, 2021

Hello 🙌

I’m Raj, and each week I curate interesting tips, articles, and resources around recruitment, sourcing, and anything else that’s hot in the talent world. It's Friday and I'm back with another edition of 10xrecruiter for you to level up your recruitment game.

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✨ A timeless thought

Keith Schneider @SchneiderKJ

Want to instantly get better at hiring? Assume that your top choice is receiving multiple job offers and act accordingly.

💯 Tips & hacks of the week

⚡️ How to collect and cross-reference all emails in search results

Check out this fast way to collect prospects’ emails from Google and then finding the professionals on LinkedIn. See the steps in a fun 7-minute demo by David Galley who shows how to collect and cross-reference Kubernetes Developers on Github based on X-Raying “authors” files as a use case.

💡 What’s the best time to post on Linkedin?

Jordi Spijker @JordiSpijker

Best time to post on LinkedIn? 12:00 or 05:00 pm Tuesdays through to Thursday 🕔💫✨📝📊 #sosueu #sosueurope #sourcingsummit #sourcingsummit2018 #recruitment #linkedin #jobs

📚 Reading

Here are a few things that I've been reading this week:

💬 Messaging best practices for real world LinkedIn outreach

Mike “Batman” Cohen, Founder, Wayne Technologies and messaging guru, shares his tips, tricks, and best practices for how to message groups of prospects and still make the messages sound custom.

💯 Sourcing on Twitter: A short guide to get you started

Twitter is a great place to find professionals who’re interacting with the community as part of their daily work — Product Marketing, Product Managers, Sales Engineers, Community Leaders, etc. Learn techniques to source candidates from Twitter.

✨ How many hashtags should you put in your LinkedIn posts?

This is based on an analysis of 4.988 million LinkedIn posts in more than 100 countries. The probability of getting 100 likes or comments on a LinkedIn post is 3.307% when you have a network of fewer than 25,000 followers. To increase this probability, you have to keep in mind these 3 rules:

Absolutely more than 0 hashtags!
Ideally 3
Beyond 3 hashtags, the impact is negative, but the difference is not very significant on the number of likes and comments

🔥 How to increase offer-join ratio with Reverse interviews

Want to increase your joining ratio? Think beyond a carrot and stick approach and use things like "reverse interviews" to increase your joining ratio naturally. Read more about it in this post!

💡 Inspiration & case-studies

Curated case studies, nuggets of wisdom & techniques from other recruiters & talent experts:

😉 A creative way to draft recruitment cold emails(in code)?

Recruiters with unique strategies win. It sets them apart from the herd. Here’s a creative message from a recruiter who crafted the email in code!

francesc @francesc

I just got this recruiter email, and I'm not sure if I love it or I hate it ... but it's definitely something different! #python

😎 Tips to close critical hires without any leakage

Here are some closing advice and nuggets of wisdom from Nolan(former Head of Talent @DoorDash) on improving conversion rates in the hiring funnel:

Nolan Church @NolanChurch

It’s painful when the perfect candidate declines your offer. I’ve helped 3 founders close critical hires in the last 48 hours. Here’s the closing advice I give after recruiting 2k+ people at @DoorDash and @cartainc 👇

📝 How to evaluate senior tech candidates without a coding test?

Nicholas C. Zakas @slicknet

🧵 Hiring managers: there’s no reason to force people with 10+ years experience to take coding tests. You can’t last 10 years if you can’t ship code. Here are some better approaches.

Nicholas lists strategies to give experienced devs the chance to show you what makes them great rather than putting them through a coding challenge that is best suited for folks without much experience. What are your thoughts on this?

🚀 Recruitment tool/plugin of the week

Every week I recommend one plugin, tool, or product that can help recruiters become better at work:

Checkout SalesQL — A FREE extension that helps find contact information from LinkedIn users. It's my favorite and gives a good chunk of free contacts(100 contacts) per month.