Master GitHub hiring (X-Ray GitHub)

URL: https://github.com

What is Github?

GitHub is a Git repository web-based hosting service which offers all of the functionality of Git as well as adding many of its own features.

GitHub has become such a staple amongst the open-source development community that many developers have begun considering it a replacement for a conventional resume and some employers require applications to provide a link to and have an active contributing GitHub account in order to qualify for a job.  

Sourced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub

If you never heard about GitHub, you are probably not looking for IT people or you are not IT recruiter. GitHub is definitely a very good tool for sourcing technical candidates especially developers etc.

Because not every engineer, developer or designers is on LinkedIn but lots of them are using website like GitHub, then more and more companies are targeting people on this website.

Difference between GitHub and LinkedIn is that GitHub shows you what actual projects a user has worked on, in the form of repositories.

Why GitHub is great?

You can find a code samples – Your hiring manager or technical lead could just checked the code and see if this candidate is good candidate for your company or not.

Profiles and contacts – GitHub users host their personal projects and also GitHub profiles usually contain a means of contacting the candidate.

Start searching with Google

Example:  You are looking for JavaSctip developers, so how to find JavaScript Developer in Prague on github?

Try to put this on Google:  site:github.com JavaScript Prague

As you can notice everybody has "joined on" in their bio's, so don’t forget to include this in your search and also in double quotations.

site:github.com "joined on" location "JavaScript OR JS"

so if you are looking for JavaScript developer in Prague you can use this: site:github.com "joined on" Prague "JavaScript OR JS"

More advanced query

site:github.com "joined on"-intitle:"at master" -inurl:"tab" -inurl:"jobs." -inurl:"articles" "JavaScript" "Prague"

Easily find user’s e-mail address on GitHub:

This is pretty easy thing, if you can follow few steps:

1) So you found the user you would like to contact eg. https://github.com/garybernhardt as you can see that there is no email address at all not even of the page source code.

2) Copy and paste this line into your browser (https://api.github.com/users/xxxx/events/public) and find the GitHub username for which you want to find the email. In this case its garybernhardt

3) Replace the xxxx in the URL with the person’s GitHub username so it will looks like this https://api.github.com/users/garybernhardt/events/public

4) When you hit enter you will get the page that will looks like a source code. And then you easily press Ctrl+F and start search for “email”.

5) Voilà! You found the email address.

GitHub is a place where the lots of interesting engineers are coming together to share their code and as a results. It’s one of the most important project and collaboration toll for engineers.

Good luck and happy searching.

IMPORTANT: Do NOT spam developers on Github! Just because they provide their information (emails) doesn’t give you the right to send them job opportunities and spam them.