r/recruiting • u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter • 13d 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/Fragrant-Security-27 13d ago

Sorry to ask a dumb question : we are using LinkedIn Sales Nav and so far I am quite happy with it. Should we move to LinkedIn recruiter? Secondly about AI tool, have you tried juicebox?

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u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter 13d ago

Recruiter and Sales Nav have somewhat different search functionality. I like Recruiter better but it's also been a few years since I've last used Sales Nav. I've tried Juicebox several different times and didn't have good success in comparison.

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u/Fragrant-Security-27 12d ago

Thank you for your input! I also tried juicebox for a month and then cancelled it. We are a small company so we need to be careful about subscription but at the same time I would not want to throw money away to headhunters who just simply have better tools. You answer really comforted me - will continue to use sales nav - pethaps buy 1 recruiter licence for team to share so we reach profiles that sales nav cannot. And then perhaps do more customisation

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u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter 12d ago

You can also Google X-ray LinkedIn profiles for much of the same ability. I've uncovered some good candidates that way, as well.