Searching for talent is a tedious process so it’s nice to have tools to help find leads quicker. Findera is a new free search engine to help find professionals online. It has over 140 million profiles of professionals and over 125 million email addresses in their database. It was launched in September and was recently enhanced specifically for recruiting.
Findera makes it easy to find professionals, using any combination of search filters including location, job title, time in a position, company name, and much more. It also allows you to easily bookmark people matching an open job’s requirements and add them to personalized lists. Once a job post is created, it can be sent directly to the right applicant with the push of a button. Below is a break down of all the professionals currently using Findera:
What makes Findera Special?
From a recent press release: “Findera’s key differentiator is its killer search capability. I’m able to target and filter search results more effectively in Findera than with social network-based services,” said Erin Flynn, Chief People Officer at Optimizely.
“For example, I love being able to filter potential candidates by ‘time at a company’ and ‘time in position’. Those are key indicators of who is ready to hear about new opportunities.”
Findera’s Features Include:
1. Search Capabilities
Findera works like a search engine. It supports both structured (filters) and unstructured (keywords) search. In a sense, it’s a bit similar to searching for products on Amazon, except that now you can search for professional people. All the basic Boolean operators work on Findera: AND, OR, (-) NOT, & “Exact”. However, more advanced operators like the *wildcard and flip searches do not work in this search engine.
Because their index is based on people, companies, and their relationships, Findera can search across “nodes”, making it easy to search for people using people and company attributes at the same time. For example, you can search for Director+ level people in Marketing at companies with $50M to $500M in revenue – in one simple search.
2. Contact Leads Directly
Once you sign up for Findera (free), you can contact people directly via email.
3. Lists Building
Getting results is great, but what do people want to do with these results? The first step in this direction is to make it easy to bookmark people and add them to lists. It’s fairly close to having your own personal CRM tool.
Most of the people who build lists for their work tell us that they spend a lot of time copying and pasting… into spreadsheets, into notes type documents, even into emails or Slack messages to themselves. Now there is a way to create as many lists of people as you want and access them from my computer or my phone whenever you want to.
4. Advanced Search Filters
People filters: location, position, department, time in a position, time at the company.
Company filters: company name, industry, company size, revenue, current/past.
5. New capabilities for recruiters (all free)
- Posting a job.
- Creating email templates for each job for messaging leads.
- Emailing potential candidates directly from search results (or your custom lists).
Update: The search engine Findera was shut-down in January 2019.
Recommended Reading:
5 Ways To Build a Sourcer And Recruiter Partnership
How to Make Your Work Culture Authentic
The Sourcing Function Matters Within Recruiting
Too bad it does not work from Europe, but hey we have a tool for that… Will try it out.
I had a go at it, and found the information held is not up to date. For a subscription service, that is not good enough.
Same here Cora. I ran a search on a couple of our employees who had been here 2-3 years and it was showing their former employers details. Look, it appears free, so you may find the odd nugget now and again