Dean Da Costa
Dean Da Costa is a highly experienced and decorated staffing professional, recruiter, sourcer and manager, who also boasts outstanding experience and skills in Human Resources, Project Management, Training, and Process Improvement. He is best known for his work in the highly difficult security and mobile arena's, and the gold star winning numbers he produced. His keen insight and creation of ground breaking tools and processes, to enhance and change staffing as we know it, have proven he is a true "Staffing Thought Leader". Despite all this he remains first and foremost one of the top sourcers, staffing managers and full cycle recruiters in the industry and a true "Search Authority"
Content authored by Dean Da Costa
Sourcing in Healthcare: Now Six Million Medical Professionals on SeekOut Insights
It seems as if healthcare is a hot industry for us recruiters. Everywhere you turn is a req for a nurse or pharmacist…what ever happened to the software engineer boom?… Read more
Gitter: Take Your Github Scraping to a Another Level
We all love GitHub as it’s a centralized location for all sorts of developers…However, between the nuanced search capabilities and users with greatly varying degrees of activity, finding the right… Read more
Tired of Sub-Par Image to Text Conversion? Use Google Lens Instead!
The image search-ability of the internet has become quite daunting. Remember way back in the DSL days the thrill of typing your name into Google? The shock and awe days… Read more
A Free and Easy People Search Tool with No Nonsense
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of all these crummy people lookup websites. You type in someone’s personal information only to get hit with that classic “pay 3… Read more
Dean Da Costa’s Free Sourcing Tool Tutorial – Databases, Sites, & Tools
We’re at it again with another deep dive into Dean Da Costa’s all-in-one Sourcing tool. Each training is self-contained, so you’re welcome to jump in on any video. Before you… Read more
Level One Sourcing: Dean Da Costa’s Boolean Search Tool Tutorial
Most industry sourcers have a certain degree of familiarity with Dean Da Costa. You might know him from his training videos, SHRM presentations, or from his ability to hunt down… Read more
Scrape A Complete List of MongoDB Certified Professionals
A certification is usually a surefire way of knowing a candidate’s capabilities. Across most industries there’s a vast array of these milestones, and the database scene is no exception. MongoDB… Read more
Dean Da Costa’s Custom Google Xray Search Tool
There are many parallel universes, and we’re lucky enough to live in one where the great Dean Da Costa resides. Today’s nugget of wisdom might just be his 9th symphony:… Read more
Heartbeat.ai: Nothing Holds a Candle to this Medical Recruiting Platform
There’s nothing quite like a success story. We’ve watched Heartbeat.ai start as a blip in the medical recruiting industry. They used to make tiny ripples in a very big ocean…. Read more
One Hub To Rule Them All: Alternative Search Engines to Find Candidates
We all can appreciate a one stop shop no matter the variety, and a hub for alternative search engines is no exception. OSINT Link has all search engine types in… Read more
Image Text Extraction – Turn Nasty Resume Image Files Into Something Useful
Dean brings to us an incredibly useful, albeit niche recruiting tool! Every now and then you come across a candidate resume thats…well…an image. This presents an interesting challenge: how do… Read more
Instant Data Scraper – The Most Straightforward Free Scraping Tool In Existence
Dean Da Costa is at it again with his nuggets of wisdom! I have spent hours sifting through messy and convoluted data scraping tools and chrome extensions. They were either… Read more
Seekout’s Candidate Database Has Surpassed 700 Million Professionals
No matter your talent level, repetitively using the same technologies over and over again in the Sourcing world will bite you in the ass. You’ll inevitably reach a point where… Read more
Webbtree Free vs Paid: A Proper Sourcing Tool Review
Webbtree is quite a unique find. There seems to be a lot of sourcing platforms; so many that it would be hard to recommend a specific one. So, how does… Read more
Find Fresh Leads in Unconventional Places: Journalist’s Toolbox
There’s hidden leads all across the digital globe, don’t be suckered into thinking that sourcing platforms are the only way to do this job! SO, what does a Journalism website… Read more