ResumeFinder is a complete recruiting solution that enables you to search for potential resumes in various search engines using different search techniques. Using ResumeFinder, you can find resumes by just entering the keyword. ResumeFinder eliminates the hassles of generating and remembering long and complicated search queries.
You can customize the search settings in ResumeFinder by defining the search engine, location of the website, time duration in which the resumes are updated and the default keywords.
Click Tools > ResumeFinder Options on the toolbar.
In the ResumeFinder Options dialog box, click Search Settings.
Select the Country – Select the country from the drop-down list. As you select the country, you can find that the website name of Google search engine that is displayed as Search URL changes accordingly. For example, if you select the country as Australia, the website name is displayed as www.google.com.au. Now the resumes are searched from this site.
Search in webpages that has been updated in - Select the option from this drop-down list to search for resumes posted recently. You can select from the following options: past 24 hours, past week, past month, past 2 months, past 3 months, past 6 months, past 1 year.
Default Keyword for Google Search - Enter the default keyword to use in search in the space provided. This default keyword is added to the keywords you enter in the ResumeFinder toolbar. The search is performed based on the combination of the default keyword and the keyword you enter in the toolbar.
Click Apply to save the settings.
Source: Michael Specht's Blog
The ongoing economic crisis has hit very hard and it has had a huge impact on all industries including the recruiting industry. Stepping into a New Year in the next couple of days’ time, what recruiters should focus on in 2009 to recover from the slowdown and keep moving? Michael Specht mentions about the key areas that recruiters should make a note of.
Some people looking for jobs will be B grade, from layoffs, while some will be A grade. Given companies will be operating on thin margins you cannot afford to recruit the wrong person, ever!
2. Time to Hire.
While there will be more candidates to choose from, as with quality the time to hire will still be critical.
3. ROI, ROI, ROI.
Every single recruiting activity must provide a positive return on investment. You can no long afford to just engage agencies to find candidates, it must be justified and most likely a last resort.
4. Use your talent pool.
Following on from the previous point companies that leverage the data in their talent management systems will reduce the time to hire and cost to hire.
5. Look for innovative and cost effective advertising.
Post 10 job ads on the biggest job board for $1,000 might seem easy but is it the best use of the $1,000? Maybe providing icro-sponsorship to an industry event will get you in front of better candidates.
6. Branding.
Everyone is talking about it, but it is true. If people want to come and work for your organization you are half way there to hiring them. The best people want to work for the best organizations, no matter what the economy is doing.
7. Referrals.
Time and time again referrals provide the highest quality hire at the lowest cost.
8. Social Media.
While it will not save you, social media will help. Look at social media to help improve your brand, and engage with top talent.
9. Social Networking.
As with social media it will not save you but it will help you find candidates and improve your brand. Not to mention the ROI is very high.
10. Learn to use search engines to find candidates.
Source: eGrabber Newsletters
eGrabber, Inc is sponsoring the 'first ever' Worldwide Boolean Strings Contest - 2008. The event will be hosted by Irina Shamaeva, Partner, Brain Gain Recruiting and Glen Cathey, VP Recruiting, Kforce and Author, www.booleanblackbelt.com.
The contest will involve 3 stages and will test the participants' Internet resume sourcing skills.
- Every participant will receive a one-month ResumeFinder license (a $49 value) at no cost.
- One person for every 25 participants will get a chance to win either of eGrabber's power tools for recruiting - ResumeFinder (a $349 value) or ResumeGrabber (a $495 value).
- The top winner will be awarded the title “Boolean Strings Master - 2008"
With the advent of Internet, search engines play a very vital role in sourcing passive candidates. The search engines indexes the profiles of both active and passive candidates that are available in various sources like job boards, social networking sites, etc. and thus it eases the search process, but the challenge is to screen only the resumes from other irrelevant data that are generally displayed with the search results.
Though expert online recruiters use advanced search queries to eliminate unwanted data and fetch appropriate resumes, it takes a lot of time and effort to identify the skill set, structure the query, and customize and modify the search queries based on the search engines. Generating complicated search queries for various search criteria is definitely a Herculean task for the recruiters and they cannot afford to spend their valuable time on this time-consuming and tedious task on a regular basis.
ResumeFinder is a complete recruiting solution that helps recruiters to leverage the power of search engines. It eliminates the hassles of generating and remembering long and complicated search queries. ResumeFinder comes with inbuilt search scripts that can also be customized. All you need to do is just enter the keywords for the desired profile and ResumeFinder fetches you the resumes in just a few seconds.
ResumeFinder helps you to source resumes from resume sites, social networking sites, personal websites, blogs and other internet communities using search engines like Google, Yahoo, Live, AltaVista and AlltheWeb.
Just download the trial version of ResumeFinder and try it yourself.
www.egrabber.com/resumefinder/trial.html
