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Speed up Recruiting Process and increase Productivity by 80%

In the recent times, with shortage of talent on the higher side, recruitment has become a lengthy process. Recruiters are either finding it difficult to fill positions or taking more number of days to fill the job openings. Eventually, a lengthy recruitment process affects the clients, candidates and the recruiters as well. In a most demanding competitive market, recruiters just couldn’t deliver the goods on time. Some recruiters feel that skipping a few unwanted steps in the recruitment process can speed up the recruiting process. But the fact is that most of the recruiters spend a lot of time on key recruiting elements that you cannot skip. Surveys reveal that recruiters spend a great deal of time to source resumes, extract resumes and perform candidate background check. So recruiters cannot afford to skip these recruiting elements but they can try automating resume sourcing, resume extraction and candidate background check. Automating key recruiting activities helps recruiters

Search Job Openings using Google

Source: eGrabber Newsletter You can use the intitle command in Google to search for job openings on the Internet. The Google search syntax is as follows Keyword (intitle:"job openings" OR "job offer" OR intitle:"job postings" OR intitle:"job listings" OR "job vacancies" OR "job requirements" OR "walk in") (State) For example, to get information on job openings for Software Sales Managers in the state of California, your Google search string will be Software Sales Manager (intitle:"job openings" OR "job offer" OR intitle:"job postings" OR intitle:"job listings" OR "job vacancies" OR "job requirements" OR "walk in") (California | CA) You can use this search string to prospect for companies and hiring managers who are hiring.

Passive Candidate Sourcing - Target the Right Talent

Any recruiter who is assigned with the task of finding the right fit for a job opening has to essentially put on the shoes of a treasure hunter. Yes! Recruiting the best candidate for every single assignment is no cakewalk. When it comes to sourcing, Internet is the river of life for recruiters. And the list of avenues where they hunt is numerous. From Social Networking profiles to Job Boards, the options are plenty and the resumes available are uncountable. But most times the best talent remains hidden and cannot be reached through traditional methods. The buzz of passive candidate sourcing has been hovering around the recruiting space for a while now and the most successful recruiters are the ones who have mastered this art. To be fair Boolean Search Experts have had the cherry so far when it comes to finding passive resumes. The simple reason being the major proportion of their sourcing results are passive candidate profiles. While their counter parts are held up with weedi

Find Resumes with Phone or Email using Bing.com

 Source: eGrabber Newsletter You can program or restrict your Internet resume searches to return only resumes that contain phone or email address inside them. All the major search engines allow you to write search scripts that let you do this. The search syntax to find resumes that contain phone or email from Bing.com is "Keyword" intitle:resume phone email For example, to search for profiles of Certified Public Accountants, the search string will be Certified Public Accountant intitle:resume phone email You can even eliminate sample resumes in your search by including the following at the end of the above search string -submit -openings -template -tips -submission -sample -examples -wizard  

Use Online News Sites to Find Passive Candidates

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.

Inhale Resumes from Job Boards, Search Engines and Social Networks

In today’s tech-dominant world, resumes are found everywhere. Job boards, search engines, social networking sites,  free resume portals, blogs, personal websites, alumni associations are some of the major sources of resumes. It is quite encouraging for recruiters and hiring managers, but the challenge lies in how quickly you can find the resumes and extract resume & contact information from them.  Typically, recruiters and hiring managers visit various resume sources and manually extract resume and contact information to the database. It is a strenuous task for busy recruiters and it eats up most of the productive hours. Surveys reveal that recruiters spend most of their time to source resumes and extract the resume information. Eventually, it leaves very little time to contact the prospective clients or candidates. This is where a resume inhaling tool can help recruiters inhale resumes from almost any source. A resume inhaling tool with built-in resume parser intelligently ide