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04
Nov
SeekOut Product Updates
[NEW] Best in Class Contact Info is Here!

We know you need the best contact information to successfully engage candidates. That’s why we’re excited to announce a massive update to our contact finding capabilities. SeekOut now has the most comprehensive and accurate database of personal email addresses, mobile phone numbers, and social links in all of HR tech.

We analyzed all the major data providers and selected the best info partners. Then we benchmarked SeekOut against other leading tools to verify the quality. We’re confident SeekOut is now the leading provider of contact information in the recruiting software industry—so good that you won’t need to regularly use any other contact info tool.

Getting Contact Info in SeekOut

You’ve used SeekOut to discover hard-to-find talent for your open roles. Now you need to engage candidates and share the opportunity with them.

You can request a candidate’s email addresses, phone numbers, and social links from their profile and SeekOut will instantly provide the relevant contact information. You can also generate contact information for multiple candidates you’ve sourced with a single click.

Note: SeekOut users have a monthly balance of credits and one credit is exhausted for each candidate email or phone number that is requested.

Get in Touch with Candidates

Once you have a candidate’s contact information, write an engaging outreach email that gets their attention. SeekOut’s AI-powered personalization helps you create emails that reference details on the candidate’s profile, determine the best times to send, and craft eye-catching subject lines. You can also send an email on behalf of the hiring manager or a member of your leadership team so it stands out in the recipient’s inbox.

You can even create automated, multi-step email campaigns in SeekOut to engage candidates. Stay persistent and review response analytics to learn what is working and what isn’t.

Connect with Hard-to-Find and Diverse Talent

Best-in-class contact info is now available in the industry-leading Talent 360 platform. But don’t take our word for it. The new contact information system is live on your SeekOut account now. Don’t have SeekOut? Request a no-obligation demo today!


23
Sep
SeekOut Product Updates
SeekOut Product Updates

Our team has been hard at work implementing a lot of new features that you have given us input on as well as of customers have asked for. These include:

  • Unified Profiles
  • More Likely to Move Jobs Filters
  • Export Talent Insights to Excel
  • Personalized Outreach to GitHub Candidates
  • ATS Rediscovery
  • Referrals

Unified Profiles: As you know we pull in a lot of data about people beyond just what they say on their profiles. We try to get the actual work they’ve done and bring that to be searchable and discoverable so you can engage with folks. If you do a search for someone in accounting for instance, we’ll bring back links to papers they’ve written about accounting. If you search for ‘natural language engineer’, we won’t just pull back the candidate’s public resume data, we’ll now show any papers & patents they’ve done, as well as any code from GitHub directly within the Public Profile. Of course, you can click through to see the exact code. What this means is that many more candidates come back from every search you do because we are pulling in more than what they say, and the people that come back are much more relevant and you can see why they are relevant.

More Likely to Move feature: What this does is it applies a machine learning algorithm to predict which candidates are most likely to change jobs in the next 12-months. Let’s say you’re looking for ‘certified public accountant’ in Chicago. All you have to do is click on the More Likely to Move button, that will filter out to only show candidates who SeekOut predicts will move jobs in the next 12-months. This algorithm is very precise and will help you target your candidates better.

Export Talent Insights: Our customers love the Talent Insights feature but have been limited because they previously could only export Talent Insights as a PDF. With this update you can now export to an Excel Spreadsheet, all the data from our Talent Insights so you can put them into a Word document, PowerPoint presentation or other document to share with your leadership.

Personalized Outreach to GitHub Candidates: Our new GitHub engagement feature builds a paragraph of text for you to use in your outreach messages which highlights the work that a candidate has done on GitHub. By taking advantage of this automatically created summary of the candidates work on GitHub, SeekOut will help you write a more engaging message and get more responses from the candidates you care about.

ATS Rediscovery: You have a ton of data in your ATS and in theory it should be very valuable for you but unfortunately ATS’s often have very stale data and most of them have relatively poor search. SeekOut’s ATS Rediscovery solves these problems by updating the profiles of anyone in your ATS and then allowing you to use all of SeekOut search features to find them again. With SeekOut you can target your search at anyone who is already in your ATS. See who in your company is working with them and how long ago they were updated. You can even target silver medalists and other attributes in your ATS combined with the power of SeekOut search. Click through to see their record in your ATS to see the full details of your interaction with them. Want to target candidates who have never applied to your company? You can do that too with just a click of a button

Referrals: SeekOut now allows your team members to upload their connections and then for you to filter to only find candidates who are connected to someone on your team. Once you’ve found the candidate and you see who they’re connected to, SeekOut makes it easy to reach out to that internal team member and ask for feedback. When you reach out, they get an email with a link and with just a few clicks can tell you whether they recommend the candidate or not and whether they’d be willing to reach out and talk to that candidate on your behalf. As soon as your internal teammate has given you feedback on the potential referral, you’ll see the info in your project.

Request a meeting to experience the enhancements for yourself: seekout.com/requestdemo


06
Sep
SeekOut
SeekOut Unified Profiles Webinar

In this short 17-minute webinar recording you will listen to SeekOut’s CEO, Anoop Gupta and Head of Product, John Tippett discuss how Unified Profiles can improve your effectiveness by exposing what candidates have actually done, not just what they have said about themselves.

This latest feature to help you find more – and more – qualified candidates


22
Aug
SeekOut Product Updates
Announcing Unified Profiles | Find More Qualified Candidates Faster

SeekOut’s mission is to help you find the best candidates by giving you the most powerful search over the most comprehensive candidate database. Our candidate profiles cover not just what users say about themselves but also what they’ve done. These Whole Person Profiles let you discover the best candidates and understand their true skills. We’ve just launched a major update to our Whole Person Profiles.

Unified Profiles
We’re improving the way we display Full Person Profiles so SeekOut Premium Tech and SeekOut Expert customers can more easily understand the full background of each candidate. In addition to the public profile details, key matches, and expertise tags we’ve always shown, we now augment candidate results with information about a candidate’s Open Source code contributions, academic research, and patents. We call this Unified Profiles.

A Comprehensive View of Each Candidate
You’ll still search SeekOut using any of our search capabilities – keywords, Power Filters, Boolean strings, or SeekOut Robot. But where you used to see a more limited profile, you’ll now see information about the GitHub contributions of each software developer – including SeekOut Coder Score and links to their actual code. And for any candidates who have been awarded patents or done academic research, you’ll see these accomplishments directly on their profile.

Many of these strong candidates don’t bother to describe their detailed work on their LinkedIn profile, so they aren’t discoverable with other tools. By unifying these profiles, SeekOut helps you find more candidates – and the candidates you discover will be even higher quality.

More – and More Qualified – Candidates for Your Hard-to-Find Roles
Let’s look at an example. Before today, if you were trying to find a software developer in Nashville with 5-10 years of experience and expertise in IOS, you’d find about 1300 results. With SeekOut’s new Unified Profiles, the same search will return 160 more qualified candidates.

Even better, SeekOut will show you more information about each candidate.

Where you used to see the what the candidate says about themselves, you now see full details of their software expertise, their coding expertise and Coder Score, as well as links to their actual Open Source code contributions.

Similarly, when sourcing Life Sciences or Engineering talent, SeekOut’s Unified Profiles now search and display information from the patents, research, and papers of expert candidates. This means you find more qualified candidates.

For instance, a search for magnetic resonance imaging angiography will now reveal more than twice as many candidates. And it will be much more clear which candidates have the specific background and skills you need. See how the unified profile below shows specific  expertise gleaned from the candidate’s patents and research.

Improve Your Candidate Discovery Today
If you’re a SeekOut Premium Tech or Expert subscriber, Unified Profiles are active on your account today. If you’re not yet a Premium Tech or Expert subscriber and would like to see how this new capability can lead to more effective talent acquisition strategy, let us know. We’d be happy to show you. Request a demo or contact us.


17
Jul
SeekOut
Level Up Your Sourcing Game

It’s a new era of sourcing! Learn how you can spend your time more wisely by balancing old and new techniques to set up your entire sourcing life cycle for success!

SeekOut CEO, Anoop Gupta chats with Sarah Goldberg, Sourcing Engagement Lead at Objective Paradigm about different ways Sourcers can work smarter to source high volumes of candidates.

Topics Include:

  • How you can structure your day for an efficient & effective workflow
  • How to balance new tools and old techniques
  • Sourcing tips & tricks


 


26
Jun
SeekOut
From Job Description to Quality Hire

In this webinar titled “From Job Description to Quality Hire”, you will learn how Larry Hernandez, Diversity Talent Sourcer at Microsoft, turns a simple job description and requirements into:

  • Robust search strings
  • A simple and repeatable process
  • An optimized and automated process using SeekOut Robot and Power filters

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22
May
SeekOut
Spinning Up A New Search

SeekOut’s Talent 360 profiles provide talent acquisition professionals a comprehensive view of every candidate’s background. This information helps source candidates who meet the role requirements and create engaging emails that resonate with them.

In our recent webinar, Mike “Batman” Cohen, the founder of Wayne Technologies, shared how he uses SeekOut to search for qualified candidates who have a connection to the company he is sourcing for and bulk send emails that have a sense of personalization.

Step 1: Conduct market research

Mike starts by collecting information about the employees who currently work for the company. Using SeekOut, he searches by the company name and looks for people who hold similar positions to the one he is hiring for.

As he finds relevant profiles, he adds each employees’ LinkedIn URL, previous companies, and college to a spreadsheet.

Step 2: Conduct a foundational search

Mike now searches for candidates who meet the role requirements. In his example, he is hiring for a Java Developer in Los Angeles so he builds a talent pool by:

  • Using power filters to find candidates who know Java
  • Filtering by location to find candidates in Los Angeles
  • Using Boolean strings to search for relevant job titles
  • Filtering by years of experience and years in current role
  • Filtering by candidates with a Computer Science degree

Using these different search techniques, Mike now has a large pool of qualified candidates.

Step 3: Combine the market research and foundational search results

Mike’s next step is to narrow the talent pool down to people who have a connection to the company. Using the spreadsheet he created in step one, he searches for candidates who are alumni of the same colleges as current employees or work for a company a current employee came from.

As he finds candidates, he adds them to projects in SeekOut for each specific college and company (keeping projects separate by college/company makes for efficient outreach).

Step 4: Create an email template for each project

Lastly, Mike writes a series of emails for each college and company-specific project he created in SeekOut.

Email #1

The first message references the candidate’s college or company in the subject line. In the email body, Mike links to the LinkedIn profiles of the employees who are also alumni of the college or company so the candidate can see their backgrounds.

The email then describes the role and company and concludes with a call-to-action that encourages the candidate to schedule a call to learn more.

Email #2

Mike’s second attempt at getting in touch with the candidate is a reply to the first email. It’s a short follow-up that references the information that was previously sent and has a link to his calendar, encouraging the candidate to schedule a call.

Email #3

The third email uses bullet points to concisely summarize the opportunity and employees who attended the candidate’s college or worked for the same company.

Email #4

The final attempt is a short email, proposing a day and time for Mike and the candidate to connect.

Mike repeats this process for each college and company-specific project he created in SeekOut, helping him bulk send emails that still have a sense of. Watch the full webinar to see how he uses SeekOut to elevate his sourcing and candidate outreach strategy.