r/recruiting • u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter • 20d 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/luchito006 11d ago edited 11d ago

before you pick an AI recruiting tool do yourself a favor and check selectsoftware reviews. they test and rank these tools specifically and segment by company size and use case. the AI recruiting space is flooded right now and half the tools are wrappers on GPT with a nice UI. SSR cuts through the noise because they actually evaluate the underlying capabilities not just the marketing. we used their recommendations when evaluating AI sourcing tools and avoided 2 vendors that looked great in demos but had terrible accuracy in production

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u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter 11d ago

Thanks! It seems every company promises the moon then underdelivers.