One of the toughest challenges faced by HR professionals and recruiters is to find the right candidate for the right job. Despite having several job boards, there are still a lot of hard-to-fill jobs. The reason is that these job boards are unable to provide the right candidate and they are quite expensive too. So what next? The solution is sourcing passive resumes.
Passive resumes are resumes of candidates who are already employed and are not actively looking for jobs but they are “actively passive” – i.e. they will be just monitoring the job market trends and opportunities. If an attractive offer comes their way, they might be interested in it. These candidates post their resumes in social networking sites, blogs, personal websites, professional forums, etc. The major advantage of passive candidates is that they are a hidden talent pool and are not contacted by your competitors. Passive sourcing is less expensive as these resumes are available in the Internet for "FREE."
Now, the question is how to source passive resumes from the Internet. A search engine is considered as a powerful tool to source passive resumes. The search engines index all the web pages and thus it helps in the search process. The search engines fetch all the possible results related to the given search. However, there are a few limitations. The search engines fetch results along with other unwanted data. You need to manually filter the resumes from the irrelevant data. This is a time-consuming and tiresome process when you have to do this on a daily basis.
There are quite a few search techniques that enable you to find the appropriate resumes. One of the powerful search techniques is the Boolean search. It plays a very vital role in specifically sourcing the resumes from the Internet. The Boolean search enables you to quickly search for resumes using different search combinations. Boolean search is based on the combination of specific search terms with the Boolean keys or operators (AND, OR, and NOT).
Advanced search queries are used by expert recruiters to eliminate unwanted data from the search results. This enables them to save a lot of time and also to quickly find the desired resumes. By using advanced search queries, you can drill down the search results by performing specific searches based on title, site, link, URL, domain, file type, anchor text, etc. But, recruiters need to memorize complex search scripts and search logics to search for resumes. Manual search also consumes a lot of time. This is where smart recruiters invest in technology.
Resume search software helps recruiters to source resumes online with a click of a button. You need to just enter the keyword to search resumes. It eliminates the pain of manual resume search and saves a lot of time. The software enables you to source resumes online in just a few seconds. The resume search software enables you to search resumes from resume sites, social networking sites, personal websites, blogs and other Internet communities using search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, AltaVista and AlltheWeb.
