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"
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TextRecruit Partners with iCIMS Expanding Recruiter-Candidate Texting into Core Talent Acquisition Technology Practices
Beware: This post is not for the old heads at heart. (at least if you have not evolved in text messaging in recruiting) Here’s the pitch: 86% of Job seekers… Read more
Extracting Email Addresses from LinkedIn
Extracting email addresses from LinkedIn or any other site is a great trick to have up you sleeve. There are plenty of tools to help you accomplish this task but… Read more
Resume Analytics and Data Scrapping Tools: This is Recruiting
RightView Understanding your resume analytics, allows you to understand your immediate reach within your database. RightView is a data visualization tool for recruiters that has the power to integrate into… Read more
Copernic Desktop Search | Lightning Fast Search Tool
Some of the best recruiting tools that I have used over the years were not truly built for recruiters. Copernic Desktop Search is one of these that I use that I felt… Read more
Recruiting Veterans: The Rules of Engagement for Military Hiring
If there’s one issue about which I’m particularly passionate, both personally and professionally, it’s recruiting veterans. Of course, military hiring holds a special place in my heart – I spent… Read more
Kaggle: The Home Of Data Science
Kaggle is the world’s largest community of data scientists. It also happens to be one hell of a sourcing tool, helping you to identify one of the industries most difficult to… Read more
4 Free Boolean Search Builders
Boolean Search, though highly debated as a dead trade is still a very popular means of search online. Regardless if you are a Boolean Superstar or you still need to learn… Read more
The Recruiters Guide To Basic Boolean Search
Boolean Operators, Boolean Search, Ninja style back flip search, however you want to slice it, it’s still a trending topic across many recruiting circles. Be this as it may, most recruiters… Read more
5 Powerful Sourcing Sites For Recruiters via @DeanDaCosta
Stuck in the daily grind of sourcing LinkedIn, Monster and CareerBuilder? It’s not easy to stay focused when your eyes go crossed and boredom kicks in from sourcing the same… Read more
Free Sourcing Tools For Recruiters from @Deandacosta
Ready. Set. Go. Sourcing requires skill. It requires the skill to uncover leads that have not already been uncovered by your competitor. Having the proper arsenal of sourcing tools at… Read more
3 Sourcing Tools For Search and Contacts
Let’s cut to the chase and get real. Every week there are new sourcing tools being introduced into the market, most of which fail. It’s difficult to know all of the… Read more
Hacking Tech Recruiting and Hiring With HackerRank
While a veritable cottage industry has sprung up around sourcing for tech talent, particularly in the profile aggregation space (think: Entelo, Dice Open Web, Gild), comparatively few options exist for… Read more
Time Is Money: Speeding Up Sourcing Pays Off With PropelIQ
Recruiters have long loved LinkedIn, but beyond its prohibitive price point, the growing grumbling among recruiters has more to do with product than price. Increasingly, LinkedIn’s pivot away from its… Read more
Meet Mode: Bringing The Future of Data To Recruiting Today
We talk a lot about “big data” a lot in recruiting, but while we know it’s a big deal, most of us aren’t really sure how to make the most… Read more
TopFruit: How Science Drives ATS Success
As any recruiter who’s ever touched an ATS knows, trying to actually search for candidates already in the system can be an excruciating exercise – but unfortunately, searching without having… Read more
