Recruiter's Essential Tips

Source : eGrabber Newsletter Sourcing candidates manually from the Internet is a time consuming process, even if you have the right search strings. But, there are ways to automate parts of the process. For example, you can use Google Alerts to receive links to new resume postings straight to your inbox. Here's how: 1)     Go to the Google Alerts website 2)     In the 'Search terms' box, enter your search string. For example, if you would like to receive information in new resume postings/ updates for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the state of California, enter the following search string* in the box intitle:resume (CPA) (California | CA) 3)     In the 'Type' box, select Web from the drop-down 4)     Enter your email and click on the Create Alert button Now you will start receiving updates from Google through emails. All you need to do is check your inbox for info on links to new / updated resumes.

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Do you spend hours manually searching resumes on the Internet? For recruiters who are not experts in Google search commands and techniques, this can be quite a frustrating task. Now, there is a way by which you can easily search passive resumes on the Internet. The eGrabber ResumeFinder is specifically designed to assist sourcers / recruiters who search for resumes on the Internet. Simply enter your keywords (such as Java programmers) and ResumeFinder will use the power of search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, AltaVista and AlltheWeb) to search matching resumes from -     Internet Communities such as GeoCities, Angelfire, etc. -     Social Networking Sites -     Free resume sites including Craigslist and many others -     Largest ISP’s such as ATT, Earthlink, AOL and others -     Popular blog hosts such as bloggers.com, blogspot.com, etc. We invite you to use ResumeFinder for couple of days at no cost . Even better, call our sales specialists now

Amidst stringent time schedules and stiff competition, dealing with hundreds and thousands of resumes becomes a grueling task. During peak hiring seasons, it becomes more hectic. Typically, recruiters receive hundreds of resumes through emails. In addition, they look for resumes in job boards, search engines, professional networking sites, resume portals, personal websites, blogs, social networking sites, etc. The task at hand is to extract resumes from the above-mentioned sources and save them in the database. Manually extracting hundreds of resumes is a daunting task. You need to manually open every resume, read through the content and then copy-paste the resume data into your database. This is not only a time-consuming task but also hinders other recruiting activities. It slows down the whole recruiting process and you might even end up losing a potential candidate or client. This is why smart recruiters use resume extraction software to quickly capture resumes and transfer

Source: eGrabber Newsletter In today's challenging environment, an employment branding initiative will offer any organization, that commits itself to it, a big advantage. The following are certain guidelines for employment branding: 1.     Understand your organization's vision and key long-term business objectives. 2.     Align recruiting goals with the organization's goals. 3.     Determine the talent requirement to achieve key business objectives. 4.     Identify key attributes that will define employee experience in the organization. 5.     Aim for messaging consistency in all your external communications. 6.     Set standards to regularly measure and evaluate the recruiting function in your organization.