Dean Da Costa
Dean Da Costa is a highly experienced and decorated staffing professional, recruiter, sourcer and manager, who also boasts outstanding experience and skills in Human Resources, Project Management, Training, and Process Improvement. He is best known for his work in the highly difficult security and mobile arena's, and the gold star winning numbers he produced. His keen insight and creation of ground breaking tools and processes, to enhance and change staffing as we know it, have proven he is a true "Staffing Thought Leader". Despite all this he remains first and foremost one of the top sourcers, staffing managers and full cycle recruiters in the industry and a true "Search Authority"
Content authored by Dean Da Costa
Free Contact Enrichment with WhatsMyName
Hello, fellow creeps! Having trouble locking down those elusive contacts of yours? If you’re struggling to slap an email on to your incomplete info cards, then you’ve come to the… Read more
Supercharge Your Workflow by Sourcing with Swordfish
Swordfish has traditionally been a great platform and browser extension for accumulating phone numbers, but they’ve recently expanded their platform to even greater heights. Phone numbers have their place in… Read more
Company Hierarchy Research Made Easy
There are a lot of benefits to knowing the hierarchy of an organization. Yes, you could browse LinkedIn and do a bit of digging to uncover the web of roles,… Read more
Nymeria Upgrades Their Platform With People Search Capabilities
Nymeria has been a great platform for contact finding and enrichment in the past, but as of today they just laterally expanded to include search capabilities. This brings Nymeria in… Read more
How to Hunt A Unicorn: The Quest for Executive Emails
As a recruiter, you sometimes are tasked with some lofty, high level requisitions. Whether or not you’re already familiar with the process of hunting a unicorn, Dean Da Costa has… Read more
Source Social Media Accounts In Just One Click
Dean Da Costa loves saving time at all costs. Optimizing his workflow is Dean’s passion, and he wants to share a tidbit with you on how to source social media… Read more
Easy LinkedIn Salary Information for Software Engineers
We love that the industry is gravitating towards a more equitable and honest display of people’s salary. Pay transparency comes with a certain degree of fairness towards both new employees… Read more
DorkSearch Might Be Too Powerful of a Free Boolean Builder
Sourcing and boolean go as good together as tomato soup and grilled cheese. However, it seems like when it comes to learning this conditional language, there’s a little bit more… Read more
Sourcing in Healthcare: Now Six Million Medical Professionals on SeekOut Insights
It seems as if healthcare is a hot industry for us recruiters. Everywhere you turn is a req for a nurse or pharmacist…what ever happened to the software engineer boom?… Read more
Gitter: Take Your Github Scraping to a Another Level
We all love GitHub as it’s a centralized location for all sorts of developers…However, between the nuanced search capabilities and users with greatly varying degrees of activity, finding the right… Read more
Tired of Sub-Par Image to Text Conversion? Use Google Lens Instead!
The image search-ability of the internet has become quite daunting. Remember way back in the DSL days the thrill of typing your name into Google? The shock and awe days… Read more
A Free and Easy People Search Tool with No Nonsense
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of all these crummy people lookup websites. You type in someone’s personal information only to get hit with that classic “pay 3… Read more
Dean Da Costa’s Free Sourcing Tool Tutorial – Databases, Sites, & Tools
We’re at it again with another deep dive into Dean Da Costa’s all-in-one Sourcing tool. Each training is self-contained, so you’re welcome to jump in on any video. Before you… Read more
Level One Sourcing: Dean Da Costa’s Boolean Search Tool Tutorial
Most industry sourcers have a certain degree of familiarity with Dean Da Costa. You might know him from his training videos, SHRM presentations, or from his ability to hunt down… Read more
Scrape A Complete List of MongoDB Certified Professionals
A certification is usually a surefire way of knowing a candidate’s capabilities. Across most industries there’s a vast array of these milestones, and the database scene is no exception. MongoDB… Read more