Recruiter's Essential Tips

Source: eGrabber Passive job seekers will not usually visit job portals but they might frequent websites that regularly provide interesting stories and research information. Passive candidates constantly look for web resources that will help them hone their area of expertise to learn something new that can help their careers. By placing your job ad in a website that caters to an industry or profession, you increase the likelihood of passive prospects looking into the work opportunities that they might not have considered otherwise.

One of the toughest challenges faced by HR professionals and recruiters is to find the right candidate for the right job. Despite having several job boards, there are still a lot of hard-to-fill jobs. The reason is that these job boards are unable to provide the right candidate and they are quite expensive too. So what next? The solution is sourcing passive resumes.  Passive resumes are resumes of candidates who are already employed and are not actively looking for jobs but they are “actively passive” – i.e. they will be just monitoring the job market trends and opportunities. If an attractive offer comes their way, they might be interested in it. These candidates post their resumes in social networking sites, blogs, personal websites, professional forums, etc. The major advantage of passive candidates is that they are a hidden talent pool and are not contacted by your competitors. Passive sourcing is less expensive as these resumes are available in the Internet for "FREE."...

Source: eGrabber Newsletters One of the best ways to do a location specific search, for resumes of passive candidates, is to use the area code in your search string. The Google search syntax is as follows: Keyword (intitle:resume | inurl:resume) (State) (Area code) For example, if you are looking for resumes of web designers in St. Louis, Missouri, the search string to use will be Web Design (intitle:resume | inurl:resume) (Missouri) (314 | 636) -job -apply -submit Another advantage of using this search technique is that you get resumes with phone numbers.

Source: eGrabber Newsletters Sourcing resumes from the Internet, screening for qualified ones and then transferring them to a database are 3 major activities involved in building a resume database. Unfortunately, each of these activities consumes a huge amount of time. But, with ResumeGrabber, you can do it in an amazingly short period. ResumeGrabber is an automated resume import tool that extracts resumes from almost any source on the Internet, screens and transfers qualified resumes to your database. Download the fully functional trial version and try it yourself. ResumeGrabber helps you save 90% of the time and money you would normally spend in manually building a resume database.