GitHub – Engineering Community/Social Network

https://www.github.com

What does GitHub do? GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface. It also provides access control and several collaboration features, such as a wikis and basic task management tools for every project. As a recruiter, you can source GitHub for hard-to-find software developers, engineers, and architects. As of June 2018, GitHub reports having over 28 million users.

Price: Basic – Free, Pro – $7/month, Team – $9/month

The Good: Unlimited public repositories -Searching is extremely well implemented -Main host of open source software -Branch management and easy merge process -Easy to track code changes via commit messages -Highlights changes made to your code in comparison to previous commit -Desktop client has made it even easier to use -Social media like aspects are great and allows you to stay up to date with friends and colleagues projects -Built in issue tracker allows bugs to be fixed and features to be implemented in a timely matter.

The Bad: Searching profiles on GitHub is challenging but you can use Connectifier Social Links to pull the username. Once you have the prospect’s Github username, enter it into the following url in lieu of ‘username.’

Limitations: There’s a slight learning curve of using this tool to find relevant candidates. Using tools such as Recruit’em and/or Connectifier Social Links will help pull the prospect data.