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Search Internet Communities for Resumes

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Internet communities are online gathering places for like-minded people. Personal websites on these communities most often have a person’s resume posted as well. Using Google or Yahoo!, you can easily search for matching resumes from these communities. The search string syntax is as follows : site:website (resume | homepage) keyword For example, to search America Online's community for resumes of java programmers you can use site:members.aol.com (resume | homepage) java programmers You can use this technique to search resumes from popular online communities such as GeoCities, Angelfire, FortuneCity, Tripod, etc.

ResumeGrabber helps Connect Faster with prospective candidates

ResumeGrabber helps drastically cut time on inefficient business processes, enabling to connect faster with an increased number of prospective candidates. A Business Coaching and Training company recruits and trains franchisees/coaches. Based on proprietary sales, marketing, and business management systems, its processes are structured to help owners of small and medium sized businesses increase their business revenues and profits. Problems faced The company advertises for coaches on HotJobs, CareerBuilder, Monster and local job boards. They get about 10 to 12 resumes per week from job postings. Simultaneously, they also cold-call prospective candidates. They use CareerBuilder and Monster job boards to search for prospects who reside within the allotted territory, have business background as well as experience in coaching, training, managing etc The process of searching resumes of prospects and manually processing them took atleast 4 hours every day. It greatly reduced the numb