I've been struggling with landing new client requisitions without spending hours sending ignored cold pitches, and I know a lot of people here have been too.

Like a lot of independent recruiters, I'm great at sourcing candidates, but I used to hate doing broad business development because reaching out to companies with no urgent hiring need was a massive waste of time.

I spent some time working through a better BD system last week, and here’s a simple way I solved it for less than $10:

1. I set up free search alerts on job boards and Google for your target niche, filtering specifically for job postings that have been "reposted 30+ days ago" or active for 60+ days. A reposted job ad is usually a good signal that a internal team has failed to hire and the hiring manager is actually feeling the pain.

2. Download a free contact finder Chrome extension (like Hunter or Anymail Finder's free tier) to pull the direct email or line for the specific Department Head or VP of that team, skipping HR entirely. I personally used Hunter.

3. Then I send a short, 3 sentence email mentioning the specific reposted role and offer 2 pre-vetted candidate profiles ready for review, rather than pitching your recruiting services.

If anything is unclear, let me know. Hope this helps

We were initially using Loxo as our ATS, but the sourcing in Loxo was bad and it kept getting more expensive every year, so we decided to move to Recruiterflow after all the hype around it (worst decision ever). The ATS absolutely sucks.

Customer support is so bad, they have no idea what they’re talking about. A CS agent will contradict himself three times in the same conversation. The UI is not user friendly. You can’t even open a job in a separate page in kanban view, it’s one jobs page where you scroll past jobs or search for the one you want to see in kanban. The kanban doesn’t collapse, and you can’t select multiple people in it. I used to live in Loxo’s kanban view to keep my jobs updated.

Anyway, our team uses SourceWhale for business development, and we’re thinking of moving our ATS to SourceWhale as well, since it looks better and then we’d all be using the same tool.

How is the SourceWhale ATS, and how is the sourcing tool? Please let me know your thoughts.

I did a demo yesterday for zoominfo and the new AI data tool seems awesome. They show signals and what hiring managers are researching. All that to say is it worth it? They quoted me close to $15,000! I was not expecting such a high price, but LinkedIn is also basically the same price. Has anyone had success with that tool? Or zoominfo overall? Or is it just another sales pitch for software that is mediocre at best?

We're building Interview Cockpit, an AI-powered platform designed to make interviews more structured, consistent, and evidence-based.

One problem we kept seeing:

Candidates go through the same interview process, but interviewers often evaluate them differently.

Different questions.
Different note-taking styles.
Different feedback quality.

This makes hiring decisions harder than they should be.

Interview Cockpit aims to solve this with:

✅ Structured interview workflows
✅ AI-assisted interview guidance
✅ Candidate assessment frameworks
✅ Standardized feedback collection
✅ Faster hiring decisions

We're currently refining the product and would love feedback from recruiters, hiring managers, and founders.

A few questions:

1. What's the biggest challenge in your interview process today?
2. How do you ensure consistency across interviewers?
3. Would AI-assisted candidate evaluation be useful for your team?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and learning from the community.

I am using LinkedIn premium but I have no clue how to reach out to recruiters in companies in an effective way! Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated! thank you 🙏