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Prompts, tools, guides, and tech explainers built by a recruiter with 13+ years in the trenches. Pick a guide; each one stands alone.

Free Boolean Search Generator for Recruiters

Type a role, a location, and the must-have skills. Get a LinkedIn Boolean string, a Google X-ray search, a GitHub search, and real title variations, ready to copy.

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X-Ray Search Guide: How Recruiters Google LinkedIn

How to use Google to search inside LinkedIn, GitHub, and Google Scholar for candidates, free, with copy-paste patterns and the mistakes that silently return nobody.

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50+ AI Prompts for Recruiters (Copy and Paste)

Tested prompts for sourcing, outreach, job descriptions, Boolean strings, screening, and market research. Copy, paste, and adapt: every prompt is written to be edited.

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40+ Sourcing Tools Compared: The Recruiter's Toolkit

40+ tools a working recruiter actually uses, grouped by job: compensation data, sourcing, market intelligence, productivity, and AI, with honest notes on what each is good for.

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How to Find Anyone's Email: 8 Methods Recruiters Use

Eight methods, from free to paid: pattern guessing, GitHub commit mining, personal site scraping, and the finders worth paying for, plus how to verify before you hit send.

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Build Your Own ATS: A Recruiter's Blueprint

You do not need a $30k platform to run a professional desk. This blueprint shows the minimum system that works, what to automate first, and when to graduate.

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Recruiting Automation with n8n, Make, and Zapier

Six blueprints that remove the repetitive half of a recruiting desk, with an honest comparison of n8n, Make, and Zapier, and which to pick for each job.

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The Recruiter's Tech Glossary: 12 Domains in Plain English

Twelve technical domains explained in recruiter terms: what the work actually is, what people in it call themselves, and which keywords signal the real thing.

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Recruiting Fraud in 2026: Fake Jobs, Fake Recruiters, Deepfakes

Three fraud waves are hitting hiring at once: fake job postings, predatory AI job agents, and deepfake candidates. Here is the map, and the three deep guides.

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How to Spot Fake Job Postings and AI Job Scams

Scam listings harvest personal data, charge fake fees, and steal identities. These are the red flags that expose them, and the new AI job-agent scams to watch.

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How to Verify a Recruiter Is Legitimate

A real recruiter has a footprint, gets on camera, and never asks you for money. Run these five checks before you share anything.

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Detecting Deepfake Candidates in Video Interviews

Real-time face and voice overlays are now cheap enough that the person who passes your screen may not be the person who starts. These detection steps work today.

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Every guide here is the manual. This is the machine.

SourcingNav runs the whole desk from one screen. Each card below is a live feature, not a mockup — the free Boolean generator on this hub runs on the same skill-adjacency taxonomy the product scores candidates with.

Paste a req. Watch it work.

Drop in a job description and the engine decodes it into skills, adjacent titles, and a search plan — the same taxonomy this hub's Boolean tool uses, plus scoring.

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Search in plain English

"Staff data engineer, Kafka, fintech, Bay Area" — the X-ray patterns from the guide, built and run for you, with every result scored against the role.

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Evidence-cited verdicts

Every candidate arrives with a verdict, the evidence behind it, and the one gap worth probing — a receipt, not a vibe. Your likes and passes train your engine.

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Outreach from your own address

Drafted from real company intel, sent from your inbox, opens and replies tracked, follow-ups scheduled on business days and cancelled the moment someone answers.

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A pipeline with a memory

Every stage change is an event with an actor on it — who moved whom, when, and why. The board you'd build with the ATS blueprint guide, already running.

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A funnel that is measured, not guessed

Time-in-stage from the people who actually cleared each stage, pass-through rates, which sources go the distance, and the money view — from the event log, not a status column.

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Bookmark these today

The sites, databases, and references that every recruiter should have in their back pocket. No fluff.

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levels.fyi

Verified comp data with leveling comparisons across Big Tech. Use to validate offers, benchmark roles, and educate candidates on total comp.

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TrueUp

Live tech hiring trends across 9,000+ companies. See which companies have the most open roles, the Hot 200 fastest-growing startups, layoff tracking, and job category breakdowns. The best free market overview for tech recruiters.

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layoffs.fyi

Real-time tech layoff tracker. Source recently-displaced talent, identify companies in flux, and time your outreach to hiring managers post-reorg.

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H1B Salary Database

Search H-1B visa applications by company, job title, and location. Reveals exact salaries companies have paid for specific roles. Public record data.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

Federal employment and wage data by occupation and metro area. Use for market reports, talent scarcity analysis, and workforce planning deliverables.

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ATS Job Board Feeds

Most ATS platforms expose public job feeds. Use Greenhouse (boards.greenhouse.io), Lever (jobs.lever.co), and Ashby (jobs.ashbyhq.com) to track open roles before they hit LinkedIn.

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arXiv

Preprint research papers. Source ML/AI researchers by their published work. Author profiles link to institutional affiliations. Use with Semantic Scholar for citation networks.

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Wellfound (AngelList)

Startup job board with transparent salary and equity ranges. See funding stage, team size, and investor backing. Good for startup comp benchmarking.

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GitHub Trending

See what repos and developers are trending daily/weekly. Find engineers building hot tools before they become household names. Great for AI/ML sourcing.

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