Sourcing candidates is not a difficult task at all but sourcing the “right candidate” is. Recruiters source candidates from job boards, professional networking sites, online resume databases, internal database and various other sources. But the challenge lies in finding the best talent from the huge candidate pool.

A normal search on the Internet will not get you the right results. That is why, recruiters who are well-versed with Boolean search use Boolean search strings to source candidates. But, it takes a lot of time to source candidates using Boolean search scripts.

Let us see what a recruiter does to source candidates for a particular role.

   1. Search candidates in her internal database / Outlook emails or PC/system folders.
   2. Write Boolean search strings to source candidates from different job boards.
   3. Write Boolean search strings to source candidates from professional / social networking sites.
   4. Write Boolean search strings to source candidates from online resume databases/portals/blogs, etc.
   5. Write Boolean search scripts to search resumes or profiles through Google.
   6. Extract all the resumes / profiles from the search results.
   7. Screen the resumes and shortlist the candidates.

All the above steps are done manually and it consumes a lot of time. In addition, only a person who is well-versed with Boolean search scripts can write those complicated resume search scripts. If this is the case, what will novice recruiters do? This is where Boolean search string automation can be handy for a recruiter. It helps you automate Boolean search and save a lot of time that you can use more productively.

You don’t need to write or memorize the complicated Boolean search strings. All you need to do is just enter the resume keyword, select the search script and click Find. The built-in expert Boolean search strings in ResumeGrabber Suite helps you to instantly search resumes from various sources and extract the 

resumes / profiles with a click of a button.

ResumeGrabber Suite helps you to automate all the above steps and offers you more time to reach your candidates.

LinkedIn is a resourceful platform, especially for recruiters who can find best of the best talents at their fingertips. However, the effectiveness of your LinkedIn recruiting efforts is directly dependent on factors like the type of account you own, the quality of your network, membership in groups etc. This piece of blog would be of interest to those recruiters who cannot afford the pay-per-use pattern of LinkedIn, yet looking forward to leverage this great resource for recruiting.

To churn the best out of LinkedIn using your basic account, you need to have a decent grip of Boolean. Why? It would help you to access public profiles through search engines such Google, Bing etc. thereby overcoming the profile search/view restrictions posted by LinkedIn. Once you have the search results that suit your requirement you can start moving them to your database and act on them. Does it sound way too easy? Let’s face it. Putting the Boolean strings in and then transferring 100s or 1000s of resumes manually is not an easy job any day and will definitely eat in to your work time. After spending hours and days and weeks of hard work, you realize that you are still in the first stage of recruitment cycle – sourcing. Sounds familiar?

A smart way to tackle this problem could be switching to a sophisticated yet simple to use automation tool. eGrabber’s ResumeGrabber Suite will help you to leverage LI to its fullest, even with a basic-free account. Our tool gives you options to search within and outside your LinkedIn network. With specialized in-built search scripts, you can now go beyond your network and find suitable candidates. These scripts have been developed in association with industry leaders like Irina Shamaeva, Glenn Cathy, Jim Stroud etc and empowers to you source as good as these Boolean wizards. You just have to enter keywords relevant to your target Industry or Job title and our tool will generate a candidate database including resume, email address, phone number etc. Moreover, your whole sourcing happens in a matter of clicks.

LinkedIn groups are another great way of finding people with common interests, skills, domain expertise etc. and narrow down on the group members based on Titles, Location to get better results. Experts are already using such groups as talent communities. One of the major advantages of this tool is that you can source candidates from LinkedIn groups even without being a member of the target group. All you need to do is to copy-paste the group name in the “keywords” and the tool will do the rest for you. The complete list of the group members with their Name, Title, Company, Education, Recommendations etc. is made available to you in a neat structured form as a local file in your desktop/ATS.   

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