Tech Recruiter Tries Coding pt. 2 — Google Apps (Type)Script

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UPDATE: Part 3 is out!

UPDATE 2: Check the sequel! Recruiter Codes Chrome Extension — A LinkedIn Fairy(-tale)!

Hello again from the world of amateur-ish coding! 😄

In the first part of this now-serial blog, I talked mostly about how to automate recruitment statistics in Google Sheets. But statistics, even when classifying lots of data with lots of rules, are rather trivial in coding terms.

To get into something slightly more advanced, I’ll venture a bit out of the Recruitment domain, and get into what’s usually called Lead Generation.

Retro-engineering the over-engineered world of Lead Generation

For a company that, like FusionWorks, offers awesome software development services, a “lead” is actually quite related to Recruitment:

• A job post for a software development role, since it’s a need it can fulfill.
• Contact details for relevant people in the company that posted it.
• Info about the job, the company, and its people, to classify the lead.

Now, most companies tackle this part of the business doing the following:

• Buying leads data, from companies…