Recruiter's Essential Tips

One of the most important recruiting tools that recruiters and hiring managers need to have is a resume database of qualified candidates. Although the above statement seems to be familiar to the recruiting fraternity, the words “qualified candidates” means a lot to the recruiters and hiring managers as it determines their success. Why qualified candidates? Resumes and candidates are available in plenty but as a recruiter/hiring manager, you need to have “qualified candidates” to meet the requirements of the clients. You cannot take it for granted that every candidate you source will match the job requirements of your clients. The key reason behind this is talent shortage. Studies reveal that out of 100 job applicants only two or three candidates get selected and the others get rejected due to lack of talent. In this scenario, if your client approaches you for an urgent job opening, you cannot ask the client to wait and then search for the right candidate. On the other hand, if you ...

 Source: eGrabber   The reason behind using Google as a recruiting tool is simple: experienced professionals appear frequently in its searches due to their normal professional activities. As a result, top professionals have higher Google scores (a Google score is a numerical calculation that counts the number of times that a reference to an individual appears online). A high score for an individual indicates that a person is more active in his or her field, and thus more desirable. A high Google score can be as a result of a variety of things a candidate has done, including Talks they gave, Articles they authored or are cited in, Awards and patents they received , Magazine and newspaper article mentions, etc. Even if their activities didn't originally appear on the Internet, these days everything of any significance is eventually cited somewhere on the web. It might surprise you that most professionals with more than 10 years of experience have their own "Google score."

As recruiters, it is important that we become familiar with websites representing professional associations for positions that we recruit. For example an IT recruiter should be familiar with HDI (http://www.thinkhdi.com/), the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), Women in Technology International (WITI), etc. If you specialize in Enterprise Architects, then be on The Open Group for Enterprise Architecture Forum, etc. These sites provide valuable opportunities for broadening your reach in the business community and getting to know the group's members, many of whom will be qualified job candidates. Often these sites will also post job openings for a fee.

Do you receive many resumes via email from job boards, social/professional networking sites, etc. on a daily basis? Do you manually screen the resumes and enter them into database? Are you spending most of your time in extracting resumes? If the answer is yes for all of the above questions, then you have a perfect solution for this. ResumeGrabber Standard helps you to quickly and easily extract resumes from various resume sources and enters the resumes into your database. It intelligently pulls out resumes from emails received from job boards and transfers them into ACT!, Outlook and GoldMine. With just one click, you can enter candidate contact information from all resumes and also attach the resumes to the respective contacts in your database. Now type less & recruit more! Click here to try trial version   of ResumeGrabber Standard.