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How to Source Technical Talent Beyond LinkedIn

How to Source Technical Talent Beyond LinkedIn

Give every non-LinkedIn channel in a Hong Kong technical search a defined job: public work, referrals, boards, universities and agencies.

avatar for Nicholas YanBy Nicholas Yan · 2026/08/27

How to Source Candidates When Job Titles Mislead

How to Source Candidates When Job Titles Mislead

Learn how to source candidates by skills, scope and evidence when job titles vary across companies and industries.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

Passive Candidate Sourcing Without Mass Outreach: A Practical Guide

Passive Candidate Sourcing Without Mass Outreach: A Practical Guide

Find passive candidates through relevant evidence, small-batch review and respectful, consent-aware contact instead of mass outreach.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

How to Compare Local and Remote Talent Pools

How to Compare Local and Remote Talent Pools

How to weigh a local hire against a remote one on cost, overlap hours, employment admin and the evidence you can actually verify.

avatar for Nicholas YanBy Nicholas Yan · 2026/08/27

How to Use Public Profile Evidence Responsibly in Sourcing

How to Use Public Profile Evidence Responsibly in Sourcing

A practical workflow for using public profile evidence in sourcing while recording context, uncertainty, access, corrections and human decisions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

How to Source Candidates from One Job Description

How to Source Candidates from One Job Description

A practical, step-by-step guide to turning one job description into a focused candidate search, shortlist and human review process.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

How to Search for Adjacent Backgrounds in Recruiting

How to Search for Adjacent Backgrounds in Recruiting

Use transferable evidence and controlled search passes to explore adjacent talent without lowering role standards or overclaiming candidate fit.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

How to Hire When You Do Not Have a Talent Database

How to Hire When You Do Not Have a Talent Database

A practical hiring process without an owned candidate database, using applications, referrals, communities and public-source discovery.

avatar for Kevin WongBy Kevin Wong · 2026/08/27

How Much Time Does Founder-Led Sourcing Take?

How Much Time Does Founder-Led Sourcing Take?

There is no universal time for founder-led sourcing. Use this activity-based estimator to plan the work and learn your own baseline.

avatar for Kevin WongBy Kevin Wong · 2026/08/27

How AI Turns a Job Description into a Sourcing Plan

How AI Turns a Job Description into a Sourcing Plan

See how AI analyses a job description into outcomes, evidence, search signals and review rules without replacing human hiring judgement.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

Hiring One Role at a Time: A Practical Sourcing System

Hiring One Role at a Time: A Practical Sourcing System

A practical sourcing system for hiring one role at a time, with a role queue, reusable brief, calibration batch, records and close-out steps.

avatar for Kevin WongBy Kevin Wong · 2026/08/27

GitHub Sourcing for Engineering Roles: What to Inspect

GitHub Sourcing for Engineering Roles: What to Inspect

A practical GitHub sourcing guide for engineering roles: inspect project context, authorship, collaboration, recency, licences and privacy limits.

avatar for Nicholas YanBy Nicholas Yan · 2026/08/27

Candidate Sourcing Workflow: Brief, Search, Rank and Review

Candidate Sourcing Workflow: Brief, Search, Rank and Review

A practical candidate sourcing workflow with clear hand-offs from role brief to search, ranked shortlist, human review and next action.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

GitHub Sourcing and LinkedIn: What Each Public Profile Shows

GitHub Sourcing and LinkedIn: What Each Public Profile Shows

How to source candidates on GitHub, LinkedIn and other public sources: what each can show, what it cannot prove and what to check before you reach out.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

Candidate Sourcing for Founders Without a Recruiter

Candidate Sourcing for Founders Without a Recruiter

A founder-led candidate sourcing system with a clear role brief, weekly decision cadence and human review at every important hand-off.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

Candidate Sourcing Beyond Boolean Search: A Practical Guide

Candidate Sourcing Beyond Boolean Search: A Practical Guide

Learn when Boolean search helps and how brief-led, evidence-led sourcing can expand candidate discovery without losing human review.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

Boolean Search Limitations for Technical Recruiting

Boolean Search Limitations for Technical Recruiting

Understand where Boolean search fails in technical recruiting and use controlled tests to repair queries without losing human review.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

AI Sourcing vs Boolean Search for Founders

AI Sourcing vs Boolean Search for Founders

Compare AI sourcing and Boolean search for founder-led hiring, with a practical hybrid workflow, trade-offs and human review guidance.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

Active Sourcing vs Inbound Recruiting: Which Fits the Role?

Active Sourcing vs Inbound Recruiting: Which Fits the Role?

Compare active sourcing and inbound recruiting by role difficulty, reach, urgency and review capacity, then build a practical hybrid workflow.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/08/27

LinkedIn Boolean Search for Recruiting: 5 Operators, 4 Traps

LinkedIn Boolean Search for Recruiting: 5 Operators, 4 Traps

LinkedIn search takes 5 Boolean operators: quotes, parentheses, and AND, OR, NOT in capitals. No wildcards. Copyable examples and where strings break.

avatar for Kevin WongBy Kevin Wong · 2026/08/07

Boolean Search Cheat Sheet for Recruiters (2026)

Boolean Search Cheat Sheet for Recruiters (2026)

Copy-paste Boolean strings for LinkedIn, Recruiter, Google X-ray and GitHub — every operator checked against the platform's own docs, August 2026.

avatar for Kevin WongBy Kevin Wong · 2026/08/07


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