Recruiter Tips: How to Master High-Quality Recruitment Leads with Web Scraping

It’s necessary for a recruiter to get enough qualified recruitment leads. The way of getting abundant high-quality recruitment leads can help you build a talent pool from which you can choose a suitable person for your company when needed.

Web scraping is the helpful technique that can help you out in this issue, and bring benefits beyond recruiting itself:

Traditionally speaking, the recruiter would either talk to a great number of candidates or screen loads of CVs every day. If you are reaching to a wrong group of candidates, you would find the journey to the right employee long and tiring.

As people are divided into groups and communities on the Internet, recruitment could be easier if you choose the right pool. LinkedIn, Facebook and job boards such as Indeed could be effective platforms to get qualified recruitment leads.

Let’s take Indeed as an example. When you target this platform, you are going to start the talent mapping, by which you can identify the character of a candidate and evaluate their capability.

Enter keywords to the searching bar directly to filter out the people you are looking for. The key of web scraping is to help you extract the selected listing information to EXCEL/CSV or other…