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There's now a wealth of data across the web for people. Prospective candidates post their code online, build online portfolios and answer questions about topics they're knowledgeable about. This presentation covers a variety of different data sources and how recruiters can leverage these platforms to find, understand, and engage with the best candidates.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About GitHub, Dribbble, Quora and More but Were Afraid To Ask
May 8th, 2013
About Me
Founder of Entelo
Previously entrepreneur in education, employment training, etc.
Github newbie, Quora addict... :)
About Entelo
“Search Engine for Talent”
Your resume is no longer your resume.
Your resume is...
As a recruiter you want to make sure you have every possible edge.
Understanding social sites is one thing that can provide that edge.
By the end you’ll better understand...
• What each site is
• Who hangs out there
• What various numbers mean
• How you can better navigate these sites as a recruiter
The world’s most popular open source code repository site
3,300,000+ people
3,543,025+ repositories
founded in February 2008
$100 million in funding
How big is and where is it going?
How big is and where is it going?
Engineers follow engineers whose work they like
Twitter = Tweet is unit of activityGithub = Code commit is unit of activity
Code can be forked...think re-tweeting (or re-mixing!)
Think of kind of like Twitter...
Code repositories or “Repos”
Original vs. forked repos
Stars and “stargazers”
Starring a repository is bookmarking it
Forks
Followers
High follower count could mean better developer (not always of course!)
Could also mean very tough to recruit!
GitHub Search
Questions about GitHub?
Where designers share their work
icon artists
graphic designers illustrators
web designers
typographers logo designers
Founded in 2009
319,000+ users
Invitation-only website to post
How big is and where is it going?
How big is and where is it going?
Twitter analogy is good here as well
Designers follow other designers
“Shots” are unit of activity
Shots
Followers
Players, Rookies & Prospects
Hire Me/Find Designers
Questions about dribbble?
Question and Answer site for programmers
1.3 million users
4.9 million questions
9.2 million answers
founded in July 2008
$18 million in funding
How big is and where is it going?
How big is and where is it going?
StackExchange Sites
Snapshot of a user’s profile
Reputation Score
Reputation score = metric for:
• How much the programming community trusts a user• Quality of the user’s questions and answers
Generating a high reputation score
Answer voted up +10
Question voted up +5
Answer accepted +15
Question voted down -2
Answer voted down -2
Tags
Hover over each badge to see why a user earned it
Badges
Silver badge: Earned 400 votes for at least 80 answers in the scala tag
Leaderboards
Questions about Stack Overflow?
Q and A site where users:
- ask and answer questions- follow topics, questions and other users
1.3 million users
14.45 million questions
founded in June 2009
$61 million in funding
How big is and where is it going?
How big is and where is it going?
Snapshot of a user’s profile
Scan a user’s recent activity
Top Answerers
For the “Ruby on Rails” topic
Only five people listed per topic
Questions about Quora?
Largest community of mechanical design professionals
GitHub for mechanical engineers
70,000+ registered engineers
1,000,000+ downloaded models
founded in 2009
$5.47 million in funding
How big is and where is it going?
How big is and where is it going?
Snapshot of a user’s profile
GrabCAD Score
Adding to a model +15
Uploading a new revision to a user’s model +10
Answer voted up +5
Model is liked +5
Search by software and category expertise
Questions about GrabCAD?
Platform to showcase and discover creative work
How big is and where is it going?
37.8 million images on the network
172 countries on the network
founded in June 2006
Acquired by Adobe for $150+ Million
How big is and where is it going?
Snapshot of a user’s profile
View projects
Questions about Behance?
Network of local groups
How big is and where is it going?
13.67 million users
127,782 Meetup groups
founded in January 2002
$18.3 million in funding
How big is and where is it going?
See which Meetups a candidate is a part of
Search for groups
Questions about Meetup?
Platform for data prediction competitions
How big is and where is it going?
91,056 data scientists
founded in April 2010
$11 million in funding
How big is and where is it going?
See the top ranked Data Scientists across the world
Rich Profiles with their competition results
Run challenging recruiting competitions
Post to a targeted job board
Questions about Kaggle?
Social news about computer hacking and startups
How big is and where is it going?Hacker News
Social News section of Y-Combinator
Started by Paul Graham
~4000th most visited site in the world
>130k unique users per day
How big is and where is it going?Hacker News
From a HN profile, use Entelo to find their other social sites
Users post personal projects
X-Ray search to find all side projects
on
Github on Entelo
Dribbble on Entelo
StackOverflow on Entelo
Quora on Entelo
In conclusion...
• Social sites are gradually replacing the resume for many professionals
• Understanding these sites is very important to recruiting
• Respecting these communities also important
A few next steps:
• Follow us on Twitter at @Entelo for updates/articles about the social side of recruiting
• We’ll be posting a replay soon at http://blog.entelo.com
• Follow us/me on Quora for more content:
http://www.quora.com/Entelo
http://www.quora.com/Jon-Bischke
More information about me/Entelo
• www.entelo.com to request a demo of Entelo
• Feel free to email me questions, etc. at [email protected]
• Would love to hear your ideas for upcoming webinars as well!
