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Automate your Resume Screening by Tenfold

Identifying the right candidate is the highest cost component in a recruitment business. Recruiters and HR managers find it difficult when they have numerous clients looking for multiple job openings. Today, Recruiters and Hiring Managers find matching resumes from job portals and email inbox that are flooded with unqualified resumes. Breaking down these resumes into potential candidate(s) that suit the requirement is an immense task and time consuming. Statistics show that recruiters spend more time on screening resumes to find the top applicants than reaching them and conducting interviews, etc. Recruiters always ensure that they target the right candidates. In today's world, time is valued and cannot be wasted as recruiters have very limited time. There are various resume parsing tools available across the Internet but one need to be experienced in choosing the right resume parsing software . A resume parsing software that can help recruiters parse resumes from almost any

Why building a Resume Database of Qualified Candidates is Crucial?

One of the most important recruiting tools that recruiters and hiring managers need to have is a resume database of qualified candidates. Although the above statement seems to be familiar to the recruiting fraternity, the words “qualified candidates” means a lot to the recruiters and hiring managers as it determines their success. Why qualified candidates? Resumes and candidates are available in plenty but as a recruiter/hiring manager, you need to have “qualified candidates” to meet the requirements of the clients. You cannot take it for granted that every candidate you source will match the job requirements of your clients. The key reason behind this is talent shortage. Studies reveal that out of 100 job applicants only two or three candidates get selected and the others get rejected due to lack of talent. In this scenario, if your client approaches you for an urgent job opening, you cannot ask the client to wait and then search for the right candidate. On the other hand, if you

Supercharge your resume screening process

Screening resumes is one of the most crucial processes involved in recruiting, particularly in a situation where the number of resumes outnumber the number of job openings. In the current scenario, recruiters receive thousands of resumes for a few job openings. Hence, the recruiters need to be all the more cautious in choosing the right candidates from the huge pool of resumes. As a recruiter, how will you handle a similar situation like this? Imagine you receive thousands of resumes for a few hundreds of job openings and you need to screen and short list candidates from different locations with different skill sets. If you are screening manually, how long will it take to finish the project or how many additional resources would you need to employ to finish the task? Manual screening is not only time consuming and strenuous but also increases your expenses. Moreover, there is every possibility that you might miss a potential candidate. So what is the solution? An automated resume scree

Power Tool to Quickly Build your Resume Database

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.

Screen and Transfer Resumes in Seconds

Source: eGrabber Newsletters I receive scores of resumes everyday - as email attachments, from job boards, resume forms submitted through the company website, etc. It takes a lot of time to manually screen each and every resume and process the selected resumes into my database. Is there any way by which I can speed-up the entire process? Try ResumeGrabber. It automates all the manual steps involved in processing resumes. It auto-extracts resumes from Google search results, Job Boards, email attachments and enters them into your candidate database. It then allows you to screen and shortlist the resumes based on keywords. What took you hours to do can now be done in minutes. You will have all the time to hire more candidates. Download your 10-day free trial of ResumeGrabber today.

How to evaluate a resume screening software?

Recruiters’ biggest challenge is to screen the qualified candidates from the numerous resumes piling their Inbox. Nowadays, most of the recruiters have started using an automated system to screen the resumes. If you plan to go for a resume screening tool, you need to check whether the software matches your requirements exactly. Consider the following points while you are purchasing the software. Estimate the time taken to screen the resumes. Compare the manual hours spent to process a set of resumes with the time spent for the same set of resumes when you are using the software. Check for resume data extraction. Verify that the software can extract required data from the resumes. Look for saving the information. Check if the resume screening tool can save the resume data into your contact manager or database. Consider multiple resume formats. The software should be able to support different formats of resumes. Confirm quick communication. The software should enable to contact the poten

Automate Resume Screening to Select Qualified Candidates Quickly

Screening resumes can save the amount of time and money an organization spends interviewing marginally qualified, and, or suited, candidates (Cook, 1992). In the past decade, only a few have focused on the importance of screening resumes. Resume screening is particularly crucial when recruiting middle a nd senior level staff. Prior to screening resumes, the recruiter should have a list of standards and criteria against which they can compare resumes. Ideally the recruiters will have to develop a list of essential and desirable skills, knowledge, and work experience. With the advent of Internet, hund reds of emails clutter the recruiters’ Inbox everyday. The recruiters find it very difficult to apply a set of consistent standards across multiple candidates. If they can review all the resumes on the same day, it is possible to maintain the consistency in the standards. However, it is not practically possible to screen hundreds of resumes manually on the same day. Screening

Resume Screening Software – ResumeGrabber Pro

ResumeGrabber Pro is one of the popular screening software that comes handy for recruiters. The initial recruiting process involves searching and screening the resumes. This consumes plenty of manual hours. ResumeGrabber makes this boredom work into a breeze. If you search for resumes online, the search engine throws out millions of results. It is a tedious process to go through all the results and find out the resumes. ResumeGrabber contains Resume Validator that can filter resumes from the search engine results and display the resume details in a tabular form. This table, termed as ResumeGrabber Grid extracts the contact information, experience, keywords you have searched for and displays all the details in a spreadsheet format. Each row of the grid displays details of a candidate. The bottom panel of the grid displays the preview of resume of the selected row. This helps you to filter and sort the candidates and then the filtered information can be easily transfer

Pros & Cons of Resume Screening Software

Resume screening is a time-consuming process that involves a lot of manual effort. Using software for screening resumes reduces the time and effort. This can also save money, as extra manpower required is cut down. When resume screening is done by a software, the personal bias is avoided. The software treats all the resumes the same while searching for given information. The automatic filtering, sorting and saving resumes provides the competitive edge of quick retrieval of required information. On the other hand, there is a chance of missing a potential candidate just because the given keyword is not found in the person’s resume. The software is limited to do in the way it has been programmed. A personal approach to the style of the resume will be missing in this system. Moreover, a computer savvy person, who knows how exactly the software searches for information, can provide all the keywords appropriately in the resume and easily get it screened by the software.

Fast Track Resume Screening

Resume screening is the first step in recruiting process. The resume information gives you the idea about candidate’s work experience, skills and abilities. The initial assessment of resumes has to be done based on your organization standards. The best method is to prepare a checklist that covers the essential skills, knowledge, experience and other desired qualities relevant to the job. You can evaluate a resume against this checklist. The screening standards help you to identify, filter and eliminate the resumes. However, reviewing the resumes manually may consume more time and money. Nowadays millions of resumes are available online. In the advancement, lots of screening software are also available. Many organizations take advantage of the resume screening software that saves time and money. Such programs search the resumes for given information like skills, experience and other details. The resume screening software is fast, economical and reduces hassle. Anyway, t

Quickest Way to Screen resumes

I manually go through hundreds of resumes daily to screen the best ones for open job positions. This takes up a lot of my time and I sometimes miss out good resumes. Is there a way by which I can quickly screen resumes, so that I can spend more time interviewing and short-listing the best candidates? With the all-new ResumeGrabber Professional , you can screen resumes in no time. Just enter the resume keywords in a search box and click the ‘Grab’ button on ResumeGrabber toolbar. It will screen all resumes in your Outlook, system folders, Google and show up only those that matched your keywords. You no longer have to open each resume to find out whether it meets your requirement. You can now screen hundreds of resumes in minutes, which would have otherwise taken you hours to do. Download your 10-day trial version of ResumeGrabber at no cost and sprint your way to recruiting success.

How to screen resumes using ResumeGrabber Pro?

Select Resumes - Select source of resume in the drop box on the ResumeGrabber toolbar and click on the "Grab" button. On click of the grab button, ResumeGrabber grabs the resumes matching title, keyword from the source and does the following: 1. Extracts candidate contact details 2. Extracts years of experience and keywords 3. Displays extracted details in grid Screen Resumes - ResumeGrabber includes functionality to enable rapid filtering of resumes to weed out the ones that don't qualify. To enable rapid filtering of resumes, the following functionalities have been included: 1. Quick Sorting - Enables sorting by location, experience or percentage skills match. Recruiters can now review more resumes rapidly. 2. Snippet View - This view enables you to see resume summaries containing snippets from resume in the context of specified keyword. Recruiters read less and screen more resumes faster! 3. Hot Resumes - Identifies resumes that match specific skill set with a chilli

ResumeGrabber Pro – The Screening Tool for the Internet Era

How Recruiters Can Streamline Their Screening Process Using ResumeGrabber Pro If you are a recruiter seeking qualified skilled candidates, posting the job availability on the Internet today will yield more resumes from a wider array of candidates all over the world than the responses received from an advertisement posted in journals or publication a few years ago. With the advent of Internet, job seekers upload resumes in the corporate websites and via large job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder and many more. These websites and job boards have increased the volume of online resume by many multiples over the past ten years. Therefore, recruiters are now faced with the task of screening many more resumes than in the past. Recruiters may receive qualified candidate resumes, but they also receive a large quantity of unqualified resumes as many applicants see landing a top position in one of the top firms as a number game. ResumeGrabber Pro seeks to normalize the pool of candidates t

Screen Resumes in Seconds

I manually go through hundreds of resumes daily to screen the best ones for open job positions. This takes up a lot of my time and I sometimes miss out good resumes. Is there a way by which I can quickly screen resumes, so that I can spend more time interviewing and short-listing the best candidates? With the all-new ResumeGrabber Professional , you can screen resumes in no time. Just enter the resume keywords in a search box and click the ‘Grab’ button on ResumeGrabber toolbar. It will screen all resumes in your Outlook, system folders, Google and show up only those that matched your keywords. You no longer have to open each resume to find out whether it meets your requirement. You can now screen hundreds of resumes in minutes, which would have otherwise taken you hours to do. Download your 10-day trial version of ResumeGrabber at no cost and sprint your way to recruiting success.

ResumeGrabber Pro - Smarter Screening Software for Recruiters

Recently, CNN.com carried an interesting article about the impact of online resumes. The opening paragraph from the article is as follows: The art of the job search has undergone seismic changes in the digital economy. As broadband coverage pervades in even developing nations, job-hunt sites and online resume listings have multiplied around the globe. Employers are being snowed under in a digital storm of resumes as technology eases the speed of sending CV's and resumes. Source - CNN.com With millions of candidates posting resumes online, finding qualified candidate has remained a daunting job with, or without technology. "Too often" says Lou Adler, President of Adler Group, a training and consulting firm,"excellent candidates slip right under the radar while poor candidates wind up being interviewed and sometimes hired." As the deluge of online resumes grows, the ability to rapidly zero in on the relevant candidates is critical to recruiters and having the

Screening Software – The latest trend in online recruitment

Ah! I'm back with my article!! The Internet-enabled recruiting market has brought with it more reach for employers and, in general, a higher volume of applicants for jobs. With thousands of applicants vying for each position advertised, recruiting is becoming an increasingly automated process. The aim of the recruiters is obviously to screen applicants in the shortest possible time. And the aim of ResumeGrabber Pro is to help the recruiters in their job. ResumeGrabber Pro helps the recruiters to manage the flow and choose the best applicants for jobs than ever before. Though the interview remains a key component, recruiters always search for a tool like ResumeGrabber Pro to screen the right candidates. Beyond the straightforward elimination of applicants who don't meet clear criteria, though, assessment is a complex practice requiring significant effort. ResumeGrabber has made it easy by highlighting the competency factors like skills, experience, knowledge, preferences. Thi

Resume Screening Software - A recruiter's essential

More than 60% of employers plan to increase the use of corporate websites as a recruitment tool in 2007, according to research by Cranfield School of Management in association with Personnel Today. One third of the survey respondents said the "Ease of use" for candidates was a very important reason for using corporate websites. Almost a third of candidates (32%) said having access to a larger pool was a major factor. Source: http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2006/09/12/37136/online-recruitment-expected-to-surge.html Now the major factor being, having access to a larger pool, the recruiters obviously have to automate the resume screening process. Assessing qualified resumes has always been a complex practice. ResumeGrabber was designed to make the recruiters job easy by highlighting the competency factors like skills, experience, knowledge preferences. This excellent feature has always helped the recruiters in comparing the candidates based on the criteria transparently.