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How can you Use your Existing Candidate Database?

Cold-calling people you do not know, especially for candidate sourcing, could be a big time-waster. Instead, apply the "low-hanging fruit principle of selling" as your sourcing strategy - call your existing candidate database first. These are people you have worked with earlier and have a good relationship. Make sure you get 2-3 high-quality referrals on every call. The ability to get high-quality referrals is often the secret behind recruiters who are highly successful and considered experts or extremely professional. You need to pre-qualify every referral and only call those who are worthy. A great referral will call you back if you mention the name of the person who referred her. By focusing on your existing database first, you at least know that you are calling people who are good and who will call you back.

Search Contacts from Zoominfo using Google

Source:- eGrabber Newsletters There are many paid services that allow you to get comprehensive lists of people working for specific companies. But the best thing is that some have a free component or pages that can be viewed publicly using Google. The Google search script to search company contacts (name and title) from Zoominfo is site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (keyword) "company" For example to search for contacts of Directors at Sun Microsystems, the search script will be site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (manager OR director) "Sun Microsystems" Clicking on the results will display the contacts' name and their actual job title in the company. Use this script to quickly source passive candidates.

Twitter - A Recruiting Tool??

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows the user to post 140-character tweets (Twitter updates) and display 160-character bios (User profile) in his/her Twitter account. Although the tweets are restricted to 140 characters, the viral effect of Twitter helps the users to convey the messages to hundreds and thousands of Twitter followers in no time. Twitter has quickly reached millions of users and it has grown tremendously over the past couple of years. It has grown at a staggering rate of 1382% as of February 2009 (YOY) and is competing with the leading social networking giants like Facebook and MySpace. Twitter is gaining more popularity and its user base is rapidly increasing on a daily basis. A lot of Twitter-based tools, widgets, and services are now available. Twitter is being used in information gathering, networking, businesses, advertising, corporate branding, recruiting and in a lot of other areas as well. The recruiting and staffing industry

Quickly Import Free Resumes from the Internet

The most encouraging sign for a recruiter during this recession is that there are plenty of free resumes available in the internet. Yes, hundreds and thousands of resumes are flooding the social networking sites, resume sites, personal websites and blogs. Now the challenge is how to import those resumes and build a perfect resume database? If you have to do it manually, you need to visit each website/profile and click to download the resumes, which is a very tiresome and time-consuming task. Moreover, a recruiter cannot afford to waste a lot of time on a daily basis as this might end up in losing a client or a top talent. This is where an automation tool like ResumeGrabber Pro can provide you a huge advantage. ResumeGrabber Pro automates resume data entry and imports resumes from the Internet, email and PC folders in a single click. It also helps you to quickly screen the resumes using keywords. You can export the resumes directly to ATSs, CRMs and Contact Managers. ResumeGrabber Pro n

Search Resumes on Free-For-Recruiters.com

Source: eGrabber Newsletters Free-For-Recruiters.com has a resume directory with thousands of resumes. The Google syntax to search resumes on Free-For-Recruiters.com is as follows: Keyword site:Free-For-Recruiters.com inurl:resumes State For example, to search for resumes of software engineers in the state of California, your search script will be Software Engineer site:Free-For-Recruiters.com inurl:resumes CA You can replace the keyword and the state in the above script to search for resumes of your choice from preferred locations. Note: You can also use the inbuilt Google search option on this website to search resumes.

Offer Clients Innovative Recruiting Practices

Source: eGrabber Newsletters An innovative recruiting practice is one that reduces the time spent on recruiting, allowing you to fill positions in half the time, with higher quality candidates. You can achieve this either by way of adopting advanced technology or by implementing new and improved business processes. Innovative recruiting practices not only effects improved efficiency on your internal team, but make you a preferred choice for your clients. Look at technology alternatives and other innovations that will enable you to quickly search quality talent on the Internet, reduce time spent in pre-screening processes, grow your pipeline with quality talent for future hires, implement consistent communication with talent, etc.