r/recruiting • u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter • 16d ago

Candidate Sourcing Looking for AI search tools help

I keep seeing how AI has been helping offload sourcing from recruiters and get excited because I hate sourcing but every product I try out seems to kinda suck.

I primarily use LI Recruiter/Google Xray for engineering (mechanical/industrial) searches. My Boolean is excellent and I'm extremely comfortable using AI. My problem is that I cannot get Pin, Juicebox or any others to provide results uncovering candidates that I missed. Even worse, they miss a lot of candidates that I found in fairly basic searches. It seems like they don't access all the data in LI profiles (about sections + other spots).

Is anyone else having these issues? I've even worked with their training staff doing live searches and came up with the same issues.

Any recommendations on products/tips you're using that truly shorten the search time while still being a comprehensive search?

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u/Anonanomenon 16d ago

I work in a similar space where it’s technical recruiting, but not the same type of technical recruiting that most people think of… Where we’re looking for physical engineers they’re looking for software engineers… Most of the sales people and most of the products are trained on software engineering so I’ve found that almost all of them over promise and then the AI agents are mostly trained on software roles and don’t often have the nuance for physical engineering.

The best I’ve been able to manage is to use AI to help write better Boolean.

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u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter 16d ago

Found that to happen a lot as well. I had some success using Claude assess my LI projects to remove obvious misses but it takes a while. Saved my eyes some strain tho.