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Social Recruiting: LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, 230+ Tools
12,663 students
Social Recruiting: LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, 230+ Tools
Find candidates across social media: X-ray search strings for Facebook and Instagram sourcing, AI prompts, tech talent
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Take away 230+ tools: search strings, message templates, AI prompts, procedures and checklists ready to copy from the presentations
- Copy ready X-ray search strings for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, GitLab, Behance, Dribbble and Clubhouse
- See 121 services and apps on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: Sales Navigator, hireEZ, SeekOut, ContactOut and more
- Use 27 ready AI prompts for job posts, social media ads, Boolean search and outreach messages
- Search GitHub with candidate search operators and find developers by language and location
- Write outreach with a connection request message, a four-email sequence and a follow-up template
- Spot fake profiles and find job-seekers with ready keyword lists and queries
- Find and verify emails with a corporate email procedure
- Use Telegram, YouTube and TikTok as sourcing channels
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
9 sections • 32 lectures • 15h 53m total length
Requirements
- No sourcing experience required: every method comes with a query or a template you can copy
- Accounts in the social networks you plan to search; free ones are enough for most techniques
- A computer with the Google Chrome browser for the extensions shown
- Nothing else to buy for the course itself: the presentations are attached to the lectures
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
234 tools for social recruiting in one course: 121 services and apps shown on screen, 109 ready-to-use search strings, message templates, AI prompts, procedures and checklists, and 4 models and methods.
Open a lecture, copy the search string, run it for your vacancy today.
Why job sites are not enough
The people you most want to hire are not looking for a job. They are not on job sites and do not answer the tenth identical message on LinkedIn. But they are somewhere: a developer keeps code on GitHub, a designer shows work on Behance, a marketer writes on X, and almost everyone has a profile on Facebook or Instagram. Each network is searched in its own way, and most recruiters know only one of them.
What changes after this course
You search each network with the right query and reach profiles outside your contacts. You find developers by their code and designers by their portfolio. You use AI to write job posts and messages and automation to save hours. You find a working contact outside the network. And your own profile makes people answer.
What is inside: 234 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 121 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: LinkedIn Sales Navigator, hireEZ, SeekOut, ContactOut, RocketReach, Lusha, Octohunt, GlossaryTech, Humantic AI, Canva and others
- 109 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 46 templates and sample documents, including search string templates and sample messages: LinkedIn X-ray search strings, GitHub X-ray search strings, candidate connection request message, candidate outreach email sequence
- 27 ready AI prompts: candidate sourcing channels, front-end developer X-ray search, tech recruiter Boolean search, candidate outreach email generation
- 13 search string sets
- 9 step-by-step procedures: Facebook hashtag sourcing, four-email candidate outreach sequence, corporate email discovery, username profile discovery
- 7 checklists: recruiter social profile, LinkedIn connection request, LinkedIn sourcing automation setup, fake LinkedIn profile warning signs
- 5 question lists and scripts: candidate outreach message sequence, candidate messenger conversation script, recruiting search hypotheses
- 2 other working tools: Boolean search, GitHub candidate search operators
- 4 models and methods explained with examples: web scraping, data parsing
More than half of the count are services: this is a course about where and with what to search, with the queries to run there.
Where the tools are
- Social recruiting core (4 sections, 71 tools). X and Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and GitHub, YouTube and TikTok, Telegram.
- AI recruiting for social media (61 tools). Job posts and visuals, automated search, personalized outreach, profile assessment.
- Social sourcing automation (41 tools). Workflow, profile parsing, automated outreach, bookmarklets, ATS pipelines.
- Advanced LinkedIn search (67 tools). Recruiter profile, filters and groups, Boolean searches, X-ray, plugins for contacts.
- OSINT for cross-platform sourcing (66 tools). Search engines, Google operators, people search, finding and verifying emails.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
My first recruiting in social networks was in 2007, when I was a recruiter at Alfa-Bank. It was LinkedIn, and a couple of months later Xing. I was one of the early people who registered there, when most people around me were only starting to hear about these networks. Facebook came later, and I used it actively too. At first Xing gave me as many results as LinkedIn. It is still useful for a search in Germany: people there get far fewer notifications, so your contact request has a better chance to be seen.
How to use the course
Watch the first four sections in order: each lecture covers one or two networks. Then go deep where you need it. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 32 lectures across 9 sections, 16 hours
- 30 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations
- 234 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
- A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Take one open role. Open the lecture on the network where these people show their work, copy the X-ray search strings and run them in Google. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Recruiters and sourcers who want to find candidates beyond job sites
- Tech recruiters who search on GitHub and developer communities
- Talent acquisition specialists who hire creative and passive candidates
- Agency recruiters who need new channels for hard-to-fill roles
- Beginners who want to start in recruiting with sourcing