In the recent times, with shortage of talent on the higher side, recruitment has become a lengthy process. Recruiters are either finding it difficult to fill positions or taking more number of days to fill the job openings. Eventually, a lengthy recruitment process affects the clients, candidates and the recruiters as well. In a most demanding competitive market, recruiters just couldn’t deliver the goods on time.

Some recruiters feel that skipping a few unwanted steps in the recruitment process can speed up the recruiting process. But the fact is that most of the recruiters spend a lot of time on key recruiting elements that you cannot skip. Surveys reveal that recruiters spend a great deal of time to source resumes, extract resumes and perform candidate background check. So recruiters cannot afford to skip these recruiting elements but they can try automating resume sourcing, resume extraction and candidate background check. Automating key recruiting activities helps recruiters save more than 60% of their time.

An automated online recruitment software speeds up the recruitment process. It helps recruiters streamline the recruiting process without having to skip anything. An online recruiting software helps you to quickly and easily source resumes from resume sites, social networking sites, personal websites, blogs and other internet communities using search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, AltaVista and AlltheWeb. You can source both active candidates as well as passive candidates. The built-in expert Boolean search strings help you to source hundreds of resumes in a single click.

Another key activity where recruiters spend a lot of time is resume extraction. Manually extracting resumes from various resume sources leaves them with very little time to contact the candidates. Online recruitment software has a built-in resume parser that helps you to extract resumes or import resumes from search engines, job boards, email folders, PC folders, social and professional networking sites, etc. This totally eliminates the tiresome and time-consuming task of manual resume extraction and also helps recruiters to screen resumes quickly.

The next time-consuming activity is performing candidate background check. As candidates are available all over the Internet, recruiters are very keen to know more about the candidates before making the hiring decision. With a click of a button, you can quickly get to know about the online imprints of your candidates from the most popular social networking and professional networking sites. Therefore, an online recruitment software helps recruiters to speed up recruiting process and increase productivity by 80%.    

ResumeGrabber Suite is one such recruiting software that helps you to source resumes, extract resumes / import resumes and perform candidate background check with a click of a button. It significantly increases the chances of finding the right candidate for the right job in a lesser time duration and provides recruiters an edge over their competitors.

Any recruiter who is assigned with the task of finding the right fit for a job opening has to essentially put on the shoes of a treasure hunter. Yes! Recruiting the best candidate for every single assignment is no cakewalk. When it comes to sourcing, Internet is the river of life for recruiters. And the list of avenues where they hunt is numerous. From Social Networking profiles to Job Boards, the options are plenty and the resumes available are uncountable. But most times the best talent remains hidden and cannot be reached through traditional methods.

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You can program or restrict your Internet resume searches to return only resumes that contain phone or email address inside them. All the major search engines allow you to write search scripts that let you do this.

The search syntax to find resumes that contain phone or email from Bing.com is

"Keyword" intitle:resume phone email

For example, to search for profiles of Certified Public Accountants, the search string will be

Certified Public Accountant intitle:resume phone email

You can even eliminate sample resumes in your search by including the following at the end of the above search string

-submit -openings -template -tips -submission -sample -examples -wizard 

Did you know that you can use online news websites to prospect for passive candidates? The Google search syntax to search news sites is

site:online news website "keyword"

For example, if you are interested in sourcing Software Architects from The Seattle Times' website, the search string will be as follows

site:seattletimes.nwsource.com "software architect"

You can also use the OR operator to search multiple news sites

(site:seattletimes.nwsource.com OR site:al.com) "software architect"

If you do not know the URLs of websites of newspapers, go to www.onlinenewspapers.com to look them up.

In today’s tech-dominant world, resumes are found everywhere. Job boards, search engines, social networking sites,  free resume portals, blogs, personal websites, alumni associations are some of the major sources of resumes. It is quite encouraging for recruiters and hiring managers, but the challenge lies in how quickly you can find the resumes and extract resume & contact information from them.

 Typically, recruiters and hiring managers visit various resume sources and manually extract resume and contact information to the database. It is a strenuous task for busy recruiters and it eats up most of the productive hours. Surveys reveal that recruiters spend most of their time to source resumes and extract the resume information. Eventually, it leaves very little time to contact the prospective clients or candidates. This is where a resume inhaling tool can help recruiters inhale resumes from almost any source.

A resume inhaling tool with built-in resume parser intelligently identifies and extracts only the resumes from tens and thousands of search engine results. It eliminates the pain of manually sifting through hundreds of search results and it gets you only the resumes you need. The resume inhaling tool not only finds the resumes, but it also extracts the candidate contact information from the resumes and transfers them to your database.

A resume inhaling  helps you extract resumes from outlook emails, PC folders, job boards, clipboard, social networking sites, blogs, internet communities, etc. You can then transfer the extracted resumes to the most popular resume databases / ATS. The resume inhaling software helps recruiters to build a talent database of qualified candidates in no time.

ResumeGrabber Suite is one such resume inhaling software that helps you to inhale resumes from search engines, social networks and job boards. It is a powerful tool with built-in resume parser that enables recruiters to quickly extract resumes from almost any source.

ResumeGrabber Suite sources and extracts resumes from Google, Yahoo, Bing, AltaVista, AlltheWeb, Google Desktop. The resumes can be various formats such as .doc(x), RTF, Text, HTML and PDF files. You can easily transfer these resumes to ACT!, GoldMine, Big Biller, PCRecruiter, Zoho Recruit, MS Outlook, MS Excel, or any other ATS that allows you to import resumes in HR XML or CSV formats. 

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