Web Scraping For Recruiters

We present this course in two parts:

• Wednesday, March 13, 8 to 9 AM Pacific - Part 1
• Thursday, March 14, 8 to 9 AM Pacific - Part 2

Join us in exploring the transformative potential of web scraping for recruitment. In Part 1, we lay the groundwork by introducing you to key concepts, tools, and ethical guidelines essential for effective web scraping. Discover the art of extracting emails, documents, and valuable data directly from web pages and search results to turbocharge your recruitment efforts. We'll also explore simple, yet powerful tools that offer immediate results without the need for technical expertise.

Part 2 takes your web scraping skills to the next level, focusing on more sophisticated techniques and the integration of AI to refine and enhance your recruitment strategies. Learn how to leverage advanced platforms like Dataminer and PhantomBuster, discover the revolutionary impact of AI-assisted web scraping tools such as Bardeen and ChatGPT plugins, and solutions to common issues working with scraped data. We will conclude with several workflow demos to tie everything together.

Part 1 Outline

• Intro to Web Scraping
• Key Terms & Concepts
• What Scrapers Do
• What Scrapers Don't Do
• Scraping Law & Ethics
• Recruitment Use Cases for Web Scraping
• Emails from Pages and Search Results
• Documents from Search Results
• Lists of Terms for Advanced Boolean
• Lists of Identifiers for Cross-Referencing
• Before You Start
• Finding Pages to Scrape
• Choosing a Scraper
• Simple Tools that "Just Work"
• Email Extractor
• Google Search Results Scraper
• Instant Data scraper
• SalesQL

Part 2 Outline

• Scraping with Some Assembly Required
• Dataminer
• PhantomBuster
• Linked Helper
• AI Assisted Webscraping
• Bardeen
• ChatGPT Plugins
• Workflow Demos
• Storing and Using Collected Data
• Resources