Shuzak is a “Social Network for Geeks”. I didn’t make it up - it’s right on their website. Shuzak is a site where people gather to talk about Information Technology, Products, Science, Movies and other topics. The site, like most other social networking sites, represents a potential way for recruiters and sourcers to find people for positions. This site happens to be very specific to technology and technical related discussions. While not very large yet in my estimation, there are ways to use the site to introduce yourself, meet other people and recruit. I imagine that more strategy and a tactical approach needs to be taken here - but is another avenue to recruit nonetheless. Shuzak allows for posting of new topics for the community to see, searching other member profiles by key words, and viewing profiles. I found some contact information listed in some profiles. You can add a user as a “friend” if you can’t find contact information, and really want to reach out to them. On Shuzak, there is also a chat room where discussions are ongoing and you can view older postings. Reading some of the older positings on say “java” or “oracle” will help to determine if a user on Shuzak is using that technology or has experience using them.

I ran a quick search on topics currently being discussed on “java” technologies. Here is a screen shot of the results: