The other side also has a dearth of no-BS talent sourcing tools. There's https://sourcing.io https://sourcing.io, but it's rather neglected. Recently, I was r

The other side also has a dearth of no-BS talent sourcing tools. There's https://sourcing.io https://sourcing.io, but it's rather neglected. Recently, I was running a hiring campaign to grow our team. It sucked. Most of my workflow to identify talent and to manage outreach could have been automated. I also did research on competitors and other companies to figure out how to position our job ads. What I really needed was: 1. A central, searchable database that aggregated as much data as possible about the talent out there; 2. a central, searchable database that aggregated as much data as possible about other positions out there; 3. a tool that used the aforementioned databases to automatically identify and suggest fixes to my weaknesses; 4. finally, a tool that automated outreach. On #1 and #2, tell me who's out there. Tell me who has interesting profiles. Tell me who I am within N-degrees of. Based on who gets hired, tell me who is hot. Tell me who's looking for work via Hacker News. I don't mind searching for this myself, but I need a crap tonne of data points to filter on. I did this manually (repurposing our database at Walter) to yank out ~20 outbounds that made the most sense. For #3, tell me how to improve my job ad based on what works. I had to rely on my intuition, and the feedback of my peers. It generated a lot of inbounds (~50 per position), but it also took a lot of time. Help me find relevant job boards. For #4, give me a central place to manage 80% of my outreach. Post to the variety of job boards. When I fill the position, help me fan out let downs and schedule calls, and cancel the job ads. Most importantly, do all the above without turning it into a enterprisey nightmare. That's the hardest part. Oh, and don't take inspiration from AngelList's offerings. They suck. If they spent another 12 months working on data, they would eliminate a lot of the noise. /rant I could go on and on about all the crazy pains I dealt with. I hated it. I budgeted ~2 weeks (knowing I had intense focus). It took about ~4 weeks. 5 if you count closing. It should be at most 14 days to closing.