Tips & Tricks

Leveraging AI for Hyper-Personalized Candidate Outreach: A Step-by-Step Guide

Best AI provider for candidate outreach Recently, Google unveiled Bard, a new rival to ChatGPT. As an AI enthusiast, I couldn't resist taking it for a spin. While Bard's internet access capability intrigued me, a feature that ChatGPT lacks, I found the quality of its responses somewhat bad, clearly ChatGPT

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Crew goes behind the scenes of what it takes to win at talent in Web3

Recruiting top talent for web3 companies can be a challenging task. Since the game is different from hiring in Web 2.0, the best in the business has managed to stake out some guiding principles for winning at talent in Web 3.0. In this special piece, we managed to

Customer Stories

Why the fast-growing team of HR pros at Figures, building a leading HR tool, chose Crew

🎙️About the company Founded in 2020 by Virgile Raingeard and Bastien Formery, Figures is an all-in-one compensation platform updated in real-time, powering improved pay equity. Company size 25 - 50 employees Industry HR / Compensation The challenge Figures team being composed of HR experts, possesses an unparalleled understanding of the crucial

Customer Stories

How Crew helped Voggt scale from 4 to 60 with ease, skipping the usual ATS Implementation headaches

🎙️About the company Founded in 2021 by Quentin, Kevin and Lucas. Voggt is a live shopping app where people buy and sell collectibles through live auction shows. On Voggt you find high demand items such as Pokemon cards, Funko pops, comics or sneakers. Company size 50 - 75 employees Industry

Customer Stories

How Fabriq’s co-founder sold Crew to his team with just a 3 mins-Loom video

🎙️About the company Founded in 2021 by Octave Lapeyronie and François Dechelette, Fabriq is the first collaborative tool in SaaS mode that supports factories in the management of daily performance and the resolution of operational problems. Their mission is to improve the autonomy and efficiency of production teams through digital

Customer Stories

How the fast team of Sales pros at Capsule naturally adopted Crew

🎙️About the company Created in 2022 in Paris by Leonard Henriquez, Robin Philibert and Dan Elkaïm, Capsule is a Customer Collaboration Platform that helps sales teams to provide an engaging and automated B2B customer experience for their buyers. With Capsule, sales teams can centralize documents, mutual action plan, and gather

Customer Stories

Switching from fundraising to building mode, how Payflows built a dream team in less than 2 months with Crew

🎙️About the company Founded in early 2022 in Paris (France) by Pauline Glikman and Joseph Assouline, Payflows is a next-gen treasury management software that aims to help finance teams have more control and visibility over their spend. Company size 5 - 20 employees Industry FinTech / Treasury Management The Challenge How

Hiring Guide

Recruiting outreach: 10 Tips on how to write emails that get replies (including templates)

Once you have found the right talent to reach out to and have their personal email, you don't want to waste this asset by sending a bad email or message and getting zero replies. At Crew, our clients send A LOT of LinkedIn Messages and emails, and the data is

Customer Stories

How Joko boosted their sourcing efforts by involving their entire team in Crew

🎙️About the company Created in 2018 in Paris (France) by Xavier, Alexandre, and Nicolas, Joko leverages technology to help people shop smarter. It helps their users preserve their purchasing power, buy more responsibly, and save time! With the Joko app and smart browser, users can get online and in-store cashback,

Customer Stories

How Sento’s founders got in touch with 700 A-players using Crew, to build the gender-neutral team they dreamed of

🎙️About the company Founded in 2021 in München (Germany), by Felix, Lucian and Nimar, Sento is building the world’s first true Plug&Play B2B data exchange platform and ecosystem. Company size 10 - 25 employees Industry E-commerce How Sento Recruits “As first-time founders, we naturally wanted to be able

Customer Stories

How the startup studio eFounders uses Crew to recruit teams that build unicorns

🎙️About the company eFounders is a Parisian (France) startup studio. Built in 2011 by Thibaud Elziere and Quentin Nickmans, eFounders has launched 30 companies, including Front, Aircall and Spendesk. Specialized in B2B SaaS, eFounders builds software that inspire new ways of working. In 2020, eFounders launched Logic Founders, a startup

Hiring Guide

How to find personal email addresses, when sourcing candidates

After finding the best candidates you were looking for, based on a very thoughtful sourcing strategy, in the right platforms (Linkedin, Github, Dribbble...), you now want to contact them. To do so, email is often the best option out there. But it's not always easy to find talent's emails. And

Sourcing

Talent sourcing: How and where to find the perfect candidates across the web

By now, you have conducted the perfect Kick-off Meeting, which helped you build a precise Talent Mapping. You know exactly what kind of talent you are looking for, and which keywords will help you find them. It’s now time to start the search phase. 👇Find links to each platform

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3 fast ways to find the best Product Designers on Dribble

1/ X-Ray search on Google You can the same technic as here, but this time applied to Dribbble. You can try commands like : * site:dribbble.com -inurl:(followers|type|members|following|jobs|designers|players|buckets|places|skills|projects|tags|search|stories|users|draftees|likes|lists) -intitle:(following|likes) -"Hire

Sourcing

5 tips to source software engineers on StackOverFlow

1/ X-Ray search on Google You can the same technic as here, but this time applied to Stackoverflow. You can try commands like : * site:stackoverflow.com/users "frontend" "react" "san francisco" * site:stackoverflow.com/cv "san francisco" "react" * Say, that I am also looking for a rock star backend developer

Sourcing

5 Steps to quickly find the best software engineers on GitHub

Step 1: Create a GitHub account Non-logged in users are very restricted as to what they can and can’t search for in GitHub, so the first thing you need to do (even as a recruiter) is create your own account. All you need to do so, is a username,

Sourcing

4 easy ways to source talent on Twitter

Recruiting on Twitter, we talk about it all the time but we still don't see much. In this article, I'd like to introduce you to 3 simple tools and ways to search bios and tweets with keywords and all for free 1/ Use Twitter's advanced search Here is a tool

Sourcing

5 steps to easily source talent on Linkedin

1/ Linkedin classic Let's start with the basics. Type any keyword on the search bar, then hit "All Filters" to narrow down your research. 2/ Use Google, to search on Linkedin Also called X-Ray search, by entering a boolean search on Google. More on that here : X-ray Search: How to

Tips & Tricks

X-ray Search: How to use Google to accurately find talent, anywhere on the Web

Google indexes 35 trillion web pages. (Compare the volume with LinkedIn's. LinkedIn profiles are 0.001% of Google's Index!). Chances are your next incredible candidate is in Google, not on LinkedIn. What's an X-Ray boolean ? In search, we call a Boolean a combination of words and operators that tells search

Hiring Guide

Talent mapping: how to continuously map out the market to spot top talents around you (including template)

This article was co-written with Morgane Conrad, Talent Acquisition Manager at Folk. No one will tell you otherwise, as a recruiter or founder growing your team is one of the greatest challenge you'll face (if not the greatest one). At the very beginning, as seen in the first articles of

Hiring Guide

How to write job descriptions that convert (with examples)

This article was co-written with Léo Bernard, the co-founder of Bootcamp T-Shaped Recruiter, and probably one of the greatest experts when it comes to inbound recruiting When talking to candidates, they usually say things like "the job descriptions are all the same" or "they're all long and boring". Yet some

Hiring Guide

The secret to a successful employee referral program

This article was co-written with Charles Guillemet, a world-class recruiter who have hired a ton of people, at Gusto, then Neuralink, and now is Leadership Recruiting Manager at Meta. When it comes to recruiting, many companies we talk to have a magical number in mind: 33%. They want to achieve

Hiring Guide

Build a sourcing strategy that lands you top talent

Introduction Importance of a Comprehensive Sourcing Strategy Thanks to the kick-off meeting, you now have built a thorough scorecard. It’s time to build your sourcing strategy, to fill out your top of the funnel. In other words, define how and where will you find the great talents you need.

Hiring Guide

How to build a bulletproof recruiting scorecard (including template)

Once you have clearly defined your ideal candidate during the kickoff meeting, it's now time to define a scorecard (find our template below, that you can duplicate and make your own). The pillar of a structured interview process. The scorecard is one of the four steps defined by Geoff Smart

Inside Crew

How we centralized all ToDos in Notion, to level up our team’s execution (+template)

Context and issues Ruben joined Crew as late founder and Chief Revenue Officer in July 2022. At the same time, the company team was getting bigger - from 3 to 8 people. As Crew is a full remote company, we used to share team-members successes and next tasks within an