One More Way to Use GitHub as a Recruiter: Notifications and Stars
In a recent post, we delved into the top 5 ways to use GitHub as a recruiter. Just this week, Github released two new features called Notifications and Stars.
At first glance, these features are unassuming and its not entirely clear that they’re particularly helpful to you as a recruiter. Admittedly, Stars is a little less useful for a recruiter, but is handy because it allows you to keep track of the major repositories that your company or clients use the most in one tidy place.
The real power comes from using Notifications. With Notifications, when you “watch” a repository, you will receive notifications for all discussions on that repository.
So, if there’s a prospect that you find interesting that you know contributes to the Meteor repository that you want to keep tabs on, or you are actively filling a position for a backend developer that uses Redis and you want to know who is actively using and contributing to Redis, all you have to do is watch that repository to begin receiving notifications.
Happy GitHubbing!
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