Recruiter's Essential Tips

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.

Source:eGrabberNewsletter I use the Internet to search for resumes of passive candidates. But my searches often return a number of irrelevant and unwanted results, which is frustrating and time-consuming. Is there a way I could zero in on the relevant resumes without having to be a search engine expert? ResumeGrabber is specifically designed to assist recruiters who search for resumes on the Internet. Simply enter your keywords (such as Java programmers) and ResumeGrabber will use the power of search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) to search matching resumes from -     Internet Communities such as GeoCities, Angelfire, etc. -     Social Networking Sites -     Free resume sites including Craigslist and many others -     Largest ISP’s such as ATT, Earthlink, AOL and others -     Popular blog hosts such as bloggers.com, etc => Find business email address and phone number for each profile => Export them to an ATS or Excel. This way, you get an actionable, ready