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I receive scores of resumes everyday - as email attachments, from job boards, resume forms submitted through the company website, etc. It takes a lot of time to manually screen each and every resume and process the selected resumes into my database. Is there any way by which I can speed-up the entire process?

Try ResumeGrabber It automates all the manual steps involved in processing resumes. It auto-extracts resumes from Google search results, Job Boards, email attachments and enters them into your candidate database.

It then allows you to screen and shortlist the resumes based on keywords. What took you hours to do can now be done in minutes. You will have all the time to hire more candidates. Download your 10-day free trial of ResumeGrabber today.

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A recession does not necessarily mean that recruiting will cease altogether. There may be less recruiting work than before, which means you will have to cut back on expenses. Look for inexpensive ways to ramp up your recruiting efforts.

This might be the time to focus on

• Advertising channels and recruitment ads/messages that allow you to recruit faster and cheaper and reach more people than any other method.
• Investments in technology that can automate and/or speed-up sourcing and screening of large volumes of resumes.
• Client relationships.
• Hiring interns to overcome staff resources that are spread thin, etc.

Strategies such as these are sure to maximize your recruiting dollars and help you ride better on a budget that is likely to be tighter this year.

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The Live search engine uses the location search command to allow users to restrict searches to pages from certain regions. Unlike the Yahoo! region command, the location search command allows users to target countries rather than land masses.

The search syntax is as follows
location: intitle:resume

For example, if you are looking for resumes of Business Analysts in the United States, your search string will be

location:us intitle:resume "Business Analyst" -sample -apply -jobs

You will find this search string pretty useful in finding candidates for your International assignments.

The whole world is experiencing the effects of one of the worst recessions in history that has resulted in a global financial instability. Businesses have hit the all-time low and unemployment rate has touched the all-time high. Massive layoffs have engulfed more than 2.5 million jobs over the past 12 months in the U.S. alone. Interestingly, job cuts have resulted in a surge of resumes in job boards. Majority of the companies have also shrunk their recruiting budgets to a larger extent.

Despite all these events, recruitment has not been stopped completely; the employers are very selective in recruiting the right candidate. So as a recruiter, you need to look through several resumes from different sources to find the best candidates. As sourcing resumes from job boards is quite expensive, the only place where you can source resumes for FREE is the Internet. Even experts have identified that sourcing resumes using search engines is one of the key areas that need to be focused in the year 2009 to help tide over the current crisis.

Typically a simple resume search, for example in Google, will fetch you resumes along with a lot of other unwanted data. You have to manually filter the resumes from the search results. Expert recruiters use advanced search queries to eliminate the unwanted data and narrow down the search results to appropriate resumes.

The advanced search queries constitute Boolean search options (AND, OR, NOT) and other advanced search techniques that enables you to find resumes using various search parameters (title, url, site, link, file type, group, etc.). However the major challenge is, to use these advanced Google search queries, you need to be an expert in writing and structuring the search queries. In addition, whenever you search for resumes using a keyword, you need to generate a lot of search queries which is time consuming and tiresome.

For a recruiter, spending hours and hours of time in just sourcing the resumes is a tough ask. This is where an automation tool like ResumeFinder can make a huge difference by offering the competitive edge over your competitors. It is a simple but powerful resume search tool that takes away all your pain from spending long hours, and writing and memorizing complicated search queries on a daily basis. It helps you find the exact resumes in a few seconds by just entering the keyword. 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.

Download the trial version of ResumeFinder today and try it yourself!

http://www.egrabber.com/resumefinder/trial.html

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Dogpile puts the power of all the leading search engines – Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, and Ask – together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. The process is more efficient and yields relevant results.

You can get more information from the Dogpile website.

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Yahoo!'s 'region' command allows you to target your searches to specific geographic locations. The Yahoo! search syntax for this command is as follows

region:"continent" intitle:resume "keyword"

For example, if you are looking for resumes of Business Analysts in North America, your search string will be

region:northamerica intitle:resume "Business Analyst" -sample -apply -jobs

You will find this search string pretty useful in finding candidates for your International assignments.

You can create, share or edit the resume search script files based on your requirements.

In the ResumeFinder Options, click Script Settings
OR
In ResumeFinder toolbar, click the drop-down arrow next to the Find button and select Script Settings.

A dialog box appears as follows:

The already available script files are displayed under Available Scripts.

To move the script files to Selected Scripts:
Select one or more script files from the Available Script(s) list and click to move the selected scripts to the Selected Script(s) list.

To move the script files back to Available Scripts:
Select the scripts from the Selected Script(s) list and click to move the selected scripts to the Available Script(s) list.

The script files listed under Selected Script(s) list are displayed in the drop-down list when you click the drop-down arrow next to the Find button.

Click Create Script to create a script file with your own logic.

• Click More Scripts to download additional scripts from eGrabber website.
• The available search scripts are listed in the drop-down list. Select the script and click View Script to open the script file. The file is opened with Notepad and you can make changes to the file to customize the logic.
• Click About Script to view the information about the selected Script file. The About dialog box displays the Author Information, Description, Copyright Information, Version number and website details.
• Select the script and click Remove Script to delete the script file.
• Click Share Script to send or share the selected script files to others.

Click Apply to save the settings.

Note: If you have downloaded or received a new script, you need to register the file. Save the script file in any location and double-click the file to register it.