Recruiter's Essential Tips

The Internet is one of the biggest sources where you can find resumes for free. Search engines, social networking sites and job boards are some of the best places to find targeted candidates. However, the challenge is, recruiters find it difficult to manually source resumes from the Internet. You got to visit each website/social networking site and copy-paste candidate contact information into your database. This is a time-consuming and tiresome task. This is where a resume import tool such as ResumeGrabber JobSuite can be handy. ResumeGrabber JobSuite helps you to source free resumes from the Internet in no time. All you need to do is: 1.   Just enter the resume keyword, select the search script and click Find . ResumeGrabber JobSuite instantly searches the Internet and displays the results. 2.   Now click Grab .           The resumes/profiles, along with candidate contact information, found in the search results  are instantly imported into the grid. You

Source: eGrabber Newsletters Dogpile puts the power of all the leading search engines – Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, and Ask – together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. The process is more efficient and yields relevant results. You can get more information from the Dogpile website.

Source: eGrabber Newsletters Yahoo!'s 'region' command allows you to target your searches to specific geographic locations. The Yahoo! search syntax for this command is as follows region:"continent" intitle:resume "keyword" For example, if you are looking for resumes of Business Analysts in North America, your search string will be region:northamerica intitle:resume "Business Analyst" -sample -apply -jobs You will find this search string pretty useful in finding candidates for your International assignments.

You can create, share or edit the resume search script files based on your requirements. In the ResumeFinder Options , click Script Settings OR In ResumeFinder toolbar, click the drop-down arrow next to the Find button and select Script Settings . A dialog box appears as follows: The already available script files are displayed under Available Scripts . To move the script files to Selected Scripts: Select one or more script files from the Available Script(s) list and click to move the selected scripts to the Selected Script(s) list. To move the script files back to Available Scripts: Select the scripts from the Selected Script(s) list and click to move the selected scripts to the Available Script(s) list. The script files listed under Selected Script(s) list are displayed in the drop-down list when you click the drop-down arrow next to the Find button. Click Creat

ResumeFinder is a complete recruiting solution that enables you to search for potential resumes in various search engines using different search techniques. Using ResumeFinder, you can find resumes by just entering the keyword. ResumeFinder eliminates the hassles of generating and remembering long and complicated search queries. You can customize the search settings in ResumeFinder by defining the search engine, location of the website, time duration in which the resumes are updated and the default keywords. Click Tools > ResumeFinder Options on the toolbar. In the ResumeFinder Options dialog box, click Search Settings . Select the Country – Select the country from the drop-down list. As you select the country, you can find that the website name of Google search engine that is displayed as Search URL changes accordingly. For example, if you select the country as Australia, the website name is displayed as www.google.com.au . Now the resumes are searched from this site. Search i

Source: Michael Specht's Blog The ongoing economic crisis has hit very hard and it has had a huge impact on all industries including the recruiting industry. Stepping into a New Year in the next couple of days’ time, what recruiters should focus on in 2009 to recover from the slowdown and keep moving? Michael Specht mentions about the key areas that recruiters should make a note of. 1. Quality of Hire . Some people looking for jobs will be B grade, from layoffs, while some will be A grade. Given companies will be operating on thin margins you cannot afford to recruit the wrong person, ever! 2. Time to Hire . While there will be more candidates to choose from, as with quality the time to hire will still be critical. 3. ROI, ROI, ROI. Every single recruiting activity must provide a positive return on investment. You can no long afford to just engage agencies to find candidates, it must be justified and most likely a last resort. 4. Use your talent pool. Following on from the pre

Source: eGrabber Newsletters eGrabber, Inc is sponsoring the 'first ever' Worldwide Boolean Strings Contest - 2008. The event will be hosted by Irina Shamaeva, Partner, Brain Gain Recruiting and Glen Cathey, VP Recruiting, Kforce and Author, www.booleanblackbelt.com . The contest will involve 3 stages and will test the participants' Internet resume sourcing skills. Every participant will receive a one-month ResumeFinder license (a $49 value) at no cost. One person for every 25 participants will get a chance to win either of eGrabber's power tools for recruiting - ResumeFinder (a $349 value) or ResumeGrabber (a $495 value). The top winner will be awarded the title “Boolean Strings Master - 2008" Click here for more information . Contest ends on Sunday, December 21, 2008.