Everything You Wanted To Know About GitHub, Dribbble, Quora and More but Were Afraid To Ask

May 8th, 2013

About Me

Founder of Entelo

Previously entrepreneur in education, employment training, etc.

Github newbie, Quora addict... :)

About Entelo

“Search Engine for Talent”

Your resume is no longer your resume.

Your resume is...

As a recruiter you want to make sure you have every possible edge.

Understanding social sites is one thing that can provide that edge.

By the end you’ll better understand...

• What each site is

• Who hangs out there

• What various numbers mean

• How you can better navigate these sites as a recruiter

The world’s most popular open source code repository site

3,300,000+ people

3,543,025+ repositories

founded in February 2008

$100 million in funding

How big is and where is it going?

How big is and where is it going?

Engineers follow engineers whose work they like

Twitter = Tweet is unit of activityGithub = Code commit is unit of activity

Code can be forked...think re-tweeting (or re-mixing!)

Think of kind of like Twitter...

Code repositories or “Repos”

Original vs. forked repos

Stars and “stargazers”

Starring a repository is bookmarking it

Forks

Followers

High follower count could mean better developer (not always of course!)

Could also mean very tough to recruit!

GitHub Search

Questions about GitHub?

Where designers share their work

icon artists

graphic designers illustrators

web designers

typographers logo designers

Founded in 2009

319,000+ users

Invitation-only website to post

How big is and where is it going?

How big is and where is it going?

Twitter analogy is good here as well

Designers follow other designers

“Shots” are unit of activity

Shots

Followers

Players, Rookies & Prospects

Hire Me/Find Designers

Questions about dribbble?

Question and Answer site for programmers

1.3 million users

4.9 million questions

9.2 million answers

founded in July 2008

$18 million in funding

How big is and where is it going?

How big is and where is it going?

StackExchange Sites

Snapshot of a user’s profile

Reputation Score

Reputation score = metric for:

• How much the programming community trusts a user• Quality of the user’s questions and answers

Generating a high reputation score

Answer voted up +10

Question voted up +5

Answer accepted +15

Question voted down -2

Answer voted down -2

Tags

Hover over each badge to see why a user earned it

Badges

Silver badge: Earned 400 votes for at least 80 answers in the scala tag

Leaderboards

Questions about Stack Overflow?

Q and A site where users:

- ask and answer questions- follow topics, questions and other users

1.3 million users

14.45 million questions

founded in June 2009

$61 million in funding

How big is and where is it going?

How big is and where is it going?

Snapshot of a user’s profile

Scan a user’s recent activity

Top Answerers

For the “Ruby on Rails” topic

Only five people listed per topic

Questions about Quora?

Largest community of mechanical design professionals

GitHub for mechanical engineers

70,000+ registered engineers

1,000,000+ downloaded models

founded in 2009

$5.47 million in funding

How big is and where is it going?

How big is and where is it going?

Snapshot of a user’s profile

GrabCAD Score

Adding to a model +15

Uploading a new revision to a user’s model +10

Answer voted up +5

Model is liked +5

Search by software and category expertise

Questions about GrabCAD?

Platform to showcase and discover creative work

How big is and where is it going?

37.8 million images on the network

172 countries on the network

founded in June 2006

Acquired by Adobe for $150+ Million

How big is and where is it going?

Snapshot of a user’s profile

View projects

Questions about Behance?

Network of local groups

How big is and where is it going?

13.67 million users

127,782 Meetup groups

founded in January 2002

$18.3 million in funding

How big is and where is it going?

See which Meetups a candidate is a part of

Search for groups

Questions about Meetup?

Platform for data prediction competitions

How big is and where is it going?

91,056 data scientists

founded in April 2010

$11 million in funding

How big is and where is it going?

See the top ranked Data Scientists across the world

Rich Profiles with their competition results

Run challenging recruiting competitions

Post to a targeted job board

Questions about Kaggle?

Social news about computer hacking and startups

How big is and where is it going?Hacker News

Social News section of Y-Combinator

Started by Paul Graham

~4000th most visited site in the world

>130k unique users per day

How big is and where is it going?Hacker News

From a HN profile, use Entelo to find their other social sites

Users post personal projects

X-Ray search to find all side projects

on

Github on Entelo

Dribbble on Entelo

StackOverflow on Entelo

Quora on Entelo

In conclusion...

• Social sites are gradually replacing the resume for many professionals

• Understanding these sites is very important to recruiting

• Respecting these communities also important

A few next steps:

• Follow us on Twitter at @Entelo for updates/articles about the social side of recruiting

• We’ll be posting a replay soon at http://blog.entelo.com

• Follow us/me on Quora for more content:

http://www.quora.com/Entelo

http://www.quora.com/Jon-Bischke

More information about me/Entelo

• www.entelo.com to request a demo of Entelo

• Feel free to email me questions, etc. at jon@entelo.com

• Would love to hear your ideas for upcoming webinars as well!