With skill shortage always on the higher side, the war for talent is much fiercer than ever. Typically, recruiters have a list of key recruiting tasks to do on a daily basis. Recruiters feel that the initial recruitment phase consumes most of their time and it hinders the other daily activities. Recruiters say that candidate sourcing, resume parsing, resume screening, and candidate background check consumes more than 50% of their time.

In a typical scenario, recruiters spend about four to five hours a day on candidate sourcing. During times of talent crunch, they slog a couple of hours or more to source candidates. After sourcing candidates, recruiters again spend a great deal of time to import resumes to the database. Recruiters extract the resumes manually from various sources. They manually copy and paste the resume data from different resume sources to their database. This is a laborious task, which is also prone for typos.

Screening resumes is an important recruiting task as it determines the quality of a hire. Recruiters manually wade through huge stacks of resumes to pick the right candidate for the right job opening. It is more stressful for recruiters when the number of resumes outnumbers the number of job openings. The number of resumes screened per position drastically increases in such cases. It becomes a difficult task for recruiters to finish the task at hand.
 
Recruiters rely upon the Internet for candidate background check. With candidates found everywhere on the web, recruiters manually scan through the public profile links of the candidates. Blogs, forums, wiki, networking sites, and user groups act as a source of information for recruiters to find out the attitude, behavior, cultural background and other relevant information about the candidate.
 
So all these tasks consume most of the recruiters’ time and it not only affects the candidates and the clients but also affects the hiring efficiency of the recruiters. This clearly emphasizes the critical need and growing demand to automate key recruiting processes. It can help recruiters save time, energy, costs and increase hiring efficiency. Smart and successful recruiters believe that automating key recruiting processes can help them quickly and easily accomplish their recruiting goals within the desired time frame. However, choosing the right recruitment tool is very important.
 
ResumeGrabber Suite, an end-to-end recruiting tool, helps recruiters automate candidate sourcing, quickly import and screen resumes, and easily perform candidate background check for the selected candidates. This software comes with in-built search scripts that makes candidate sourcing very simple . Not only helping recruiters screen thousands of resumes in just a few minutes, also helps  perform a quick background check for the selected candidates.

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

In the last couple of weeks you might have noticed that a typical LinkedIn X-ray search on Google does not return the usual results.

For example consider the search string example that we published in one of our newsletters earlier:

site:linkedin.com java c++ (programmer OR developer) "greater atlanta" -inurl:directory

When you click on the first search result for the above string, instead of taking you to the person's individual profile, it will take you to a LinkedIn page where results are organized by first or last name.

You can overcome this by including a '-inurl:dir' to the above search string. So the search syntax would now be

site:linkedin.com keyword (title) "state" -inurl:directory -inurl:dir

So if you are looking for java & C++ programmers in greater Atlanta, your search string will be

site:linkedin.com java c++ (programmer OR developer) "greater atlanta" -inurl:directory -inurl:dir

If you want to know more about such search strings, please try our resume sourcing-cum-import tool - ResumeGrabber Suite.

It includes 100+ expert boolean strings developed by leading industry experts for sourcing resumes through Google, Yahoo, Bing and Social / Professional network sites.

It also mass imports resumes from Google search results, Outlook email, PC folders and automatically transfers them to your database.  


Download your free ResumeGrabber trial here: http://www.egrabber.com/TU4221G97

Source:eGrabber

TweetMyJobs is a new service that brings recruiters, hiring managers and job seekers together on Twitter. Recruiters can post a job on any of the TweetMyJobs Channels with a link to the actual job and job seekers will get instant notification of any new jobs as a text message on their cell phone.

You can get more information from the TweetMyJobs website.

Source:eGrabber

The best recruiters build relationships from their very first presentation of the job opportunity. Here are a few quick tips, we had discussed in some of our earlier newsletters, that can help you succeed:

1. Paint a perfect picture: Use words to create a visual imagery of the benefits, new work environment, exciting challenges, etc.
2. Tell compelling stories: Tell the story behind a job opportunity. Use metaphors to make the story exciting.
3. Be contagious with your enthusiasm: Transfer your excitement and enthusiasm about the new job to your prospects and you are more likely to get the candidate or referrals.

It takes considerable training, skill and insight to consistently transform your candidate leads into possibilities. But remember, you can realize the opportunities only if you don't fumble on your fist call.

Source:eGrabber

Spoke is a popular business directory that recruiters use for professional networking and lead generation.

The Google syntax to search for profiles on Spoke is

Keyword site:spoke.com (inurl:info OR intitle:"professional profile") intext:"professional profile"

For example, if you are looking for sales candidates at the managerial level and above, your search string can be

Director of sales site:spoke.com (inurl:info OR intitle:"professional profile") intext:"professional profile"

You can the use the above format to search GeoCities and Tripod too.