1. How to build a Sourcing
Team
Chinmay Chavan
Lead Trainer
SourcePro
“Finding the Purple Squirrel
- Stack Overflow”
Ritesh Madraswala
Talent Acquisition Consultant
Microsoft
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Stack Overflow
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow sees 40 million visitors
each month and is the flagship site of the Stack
Exchange network, home to 150+ Q&A sites dedicated
to niche topics.
A language-independent collaboratively edited question
and answer site for programmers.

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Source - stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

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Searching Stack Overflow
Google - Xray

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site:stackoverflow.com/users (Javascript OR "java script")
(Pune OR Bangalore OR Hyderabad OR Mumbai OR Chennai)

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All are passive Candidates

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site:stackoverflow.com/users (Skills Keywords) (Pune OR Chennai OR Bangalore OR
Mumbai OR Hyderabad)
("*@gmail.com" OR "*@yahoo.com" OR "*@hotmail.com")

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Now Purple Squirrel
Above All- They are Active Job Seeker

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Source - stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

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Stack Overflow offers a careers section to their website where Stack users can
search for jobs and where recruiters can go to search for people who are either
actively or passively looking to make a change in their current employment situation.
Stack Overflow claims their careers section has approximately 138,000 candidates,
comprised of 30,000+ actively looking for a job and 108,000+ passive candidates
who, while not actively looking, have indicated they are open to offers.
It’s always helpful to be able to identify people who are open to discussing
opportunities to make a change from their current employer.
http://careers.stackoverflow.com

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site:careers.stackoverflow.com -jobs -inurl:company (javaScript OR "java script")
(Pune OR Bangalore OR Hyderabad OR mumbai)

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Sourcing Tip

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22. Thank you!
https://in.linkedin.com/in/riteshmadraswala
@SourcingSpidey
“Finding the Purple Squirrel - Stack OverFlow”