Build your Passive Candidate database with Social Network Grabber

The previous post stressed the importance of using Social Networking Sites for recruiting Passive Candidates.

eGrabber Inc., a leading Silicon Valley-based provider of Sales lead and resume data capture and processing solutions, developed a custom macro(Social Network Grabber) to import profiles from Social and Business networking sites, into Excel.

The Social Network Grabber for Excel is specifically designed to help HR professionals who prospect for potential candidates on Social and Professional networking sites. With Social Network Grabber for Excel, recruiters can quickly import profiles from networking sites into an Excel database. Manually extracting resume details from these sites is a tedious and distracting task for busy recruiting professionals. Instead, recruiters can now do a search for matching profiles on the network and with a single click, import all of them into Excel. eGrabber's solution will automatically open each individual profile, copy all relevant details and transfer it, along with the resume, into columns in an Excel spreadsheet. - Source eGrabber Press Release

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