Recruiter's Essential Tips

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Source: eGrabber Though LinkedIn is still the leader, you can use a number of other professional networking sites that offer access to niches. Here are a couple of networks you can use to build extensive contact lists and to source candidates better: Doostang is a good source for candidates from exclusive top schools and recently graduated candidates. Members also have access to thousands of jobs from employers; a good place to be if you are looking for new clients or search assignments. Vault is a network made of user generated content that provides great insight into company's business in formation, culture and such that can help with finding new job orders and/or candidates. Both these sites have a basic/free membership.

Source: eGrabber Newsletter The focus for recruiters this year and the next few would be on building a community of potential candidates. Many Internet sourcing experts are of the view that recruiters should be able to fill routine job positions using just their social networks and connections. Given this, it is critical that you determine social media sites that work best for your industry understand the kind of audience (talent) that different social sites attract adopt tactics to build/ grow your network, etc. In the coming years, your success as a recruiter will be determined to a large extent by how good you are in social media recruiting.

The technology explosion has opened up quite a lot of opportunities for today's businesses. Businesses have become more tech-savvy or rather web-savvy. The recruitment industry is no exception to this and the recruiters and hiring managers rely heavily upon the Internet to look for resumes. Search engines, job boards, social / professional networking sites, personal websites, blogs, portals, etc. are considered as some of the major sources of resumes. Now, how can a recruiter capitalize on these opportunities? With stiff competition from fellow recruiters and stringent time constraints, a recruiter cannot afford to manually pull out each resume one by one and process them. It is a tedious and time-consuming task, and it takes a heavy toll on other core recruiting activities. Also, there is every chance that you might end up with typos and duplicate entries. This is where a resume parsing software becomes very important for a recruiter. ResumeGrabber JobSuite is an automated r