---
title: Recruiting smart people in practice
date: "2011-02-26T09:51:40Z"
lastmod: "2011-03-30T18:45:59Z"
categories:
  - diary
wp_id: 2610
description: I find smart recruits by searching GitHub for specific locations and skills like Node.js. I also look through comments on relevant industry blogs and use tracked email templates to measure my outreach success.
keywords: [recruiting, github, sourcing, hiring, outreach, email templates]
---

**Find people.**

1. Search on [github](http://github.com/) by [location](http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hyderabad+site:github.com) and [skill](http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hyderabad+"node.js"+site:github.com).
2. Anand's blog comments

**Reach out to people.**

1. Have a standard set of template, and track the template's success.