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X-Ray: finding candidates outside the system

Searching for profiles on the web, and the tool"s limits.

Written by Maciej Michalewski

X-Ray searches public profiles on the web — LinkedIn, GitHub, StackOverflow — not your database. It is a sourcing tool, not a way to browse candidates you already have.

How to search

You enter criteria and pick a country and portal. The results are a list of profiles you can open and assess.

You open X-Ray on the candidate list with the "X RAY" switch next to "CANDIDATES".

X-Ray with the search field, the Country list and the LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow portal choice

Limits worth knowing

  • At most 100 results per query. On a broad query you will not see everything — narrow the criteria rather than scrolling.

  • Eight countries — Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Search tricks

Because X-Ray uses a search engine underneath, query operators work in it. A popular example is finding people flagged as "open to work" — it is worth agreeing a set of proven phrases within the team.

What happens to a profile

You add a candidate you have found to the database manually. That is a good moment to set the right source immediately, otherwise they vanish into the manually-added category in your statistics.

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