Recruiter's Essential Tips

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...

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...

Source: eGrabber Newsletters A recent survey titled "Background Screening - Top Technology Trends 2009" said that 1 in 5 employers use social networking sites to make a hiring decision. The trends indicate a considerable, if not major, shift in focus to using non traditional sources - social networks, forums and blogs - for background screening. Here is a simple Google search script that will help you research people's profiles on LinkedIn, MySpace, ZoomInfo, etc. Candidate Name site:xyz.com For example, to search for Chandra Bodapati's (Founder & CEO of eGrabber) profile on LinkedIn, the script will be Chandra Bodapati site:linkedin.com Similarly you can use zoominfo.com, myspace.com, friendster.com and more.

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...

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 sof...