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Automate Recruiting Processes and Stay Ahead of your Competition

Recruiters and hiring managers spend a lot of time to source resumes and extract resumes. Generally when you search for resumes in search engines, you get a lot of results. Along with the resumes, the search results also contain other unwanted information. So, to pick only the resumes from the search results, you need to manually click each result and check whether it is a resume or not, and then segregate the resumes alone from the search results. This is a time-consuming and tiresome task. If you are well-versed with Boolean search strings, you can use various combinations of search strings to find only the resumes from the search results. But again, you need to manually execute each search script to source candidates from different locations, different skill sets, experience and various other criteria and it eventually takes away most of your productive hours which means there is every chance that you might lose a potential candidate or client. This is where a complete end-to-e

Tips to Increase your Twitter Followers

Source: eGrabber Newsletter In a recent newsletter we had mentioned how your success as a recruiter in future will be determined by how good you are in social media recruiting - building a community of potential candidates using LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. Here are things you should do to increase your followers on Twitter:     *      Have a detailed bio and a picture     *      Follow people you know and invite them to follow you     *      Search for people in your target talent pool.              (If you specialize in hiring CPAs, follow CPAs and get them to follow you)     *      Use TweepSearch, PeopleBrowsr, Twellow, etc. to find people, categories and locations     *      Tweet appropriate and useful content regularly    By setting aside time and doing this regularly, you can grow your network quickly.

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.