Recruiter's Essential Tips

Source: eGrabber Newsletters The Notes tab in contact managers like ACT! and GoldMine is a great place to store transcripts of phone calls, emails, interviews or any kind of correspondence with candidates. Storing this kind of information and referring to it once in a while helps you understand the candidate better. This enables you to make the right hiring decisions.

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Source: eGrabber Newsletters There are many times, in this day and age of social networking, people tend to share just a bit too much about themselves. One quick way to check on a candidate is to run that person’s name through a search engine. The common phrase is "googling" but you don't have to use the Google search engine to do this. If you are using Google, you simply put the person's name in quote marks into the search text box. For instance, "mark e. berger" If you were going to use the Live search engine you would type in this - mark.e.berger - using dots in between the words instead of quote marks. If it is a common name you might want to use other keywords that fit the individual. There are many employers these days that are using this practice as one of their screening methods. You should take this step before they do. It only takes a minute and offers a bit more peace of mind about a referral.

Most recruiters waste too much of time screening the unqualified resumes. According to a recent edition of Human Resources Management Daily, in a survey of 5,000 corporate recruiters and hiring managers, 92 percent said they were inundated with irrelevant responses from an on-line job posting. 71 percent indicated that most of the resumes they received did not match the job description. With hundreds of emails cluttering the mail box everyday, recruiters are unable to screen the qualifying resumes from a huge volume of irrelevant responses. A good technology solution could help the recruiter in the screening process. ResumeGrabber Pro is one such solution that helps recruiters increase recruiting productivity, by automating resume screening. ResumeGrabber Pro was designed with an insight to automate the resume screening by highlighting the competency factors like skills, experience, knowledge preferences. This excellent tool has always helped the recruiters in comparing the candidates

Source: eGrabber Newsletters eGrabber recently announced the release of a new Passive Candidate Recruitment Tool – ResumeFinder 2008 , the newest entry to their line of recruitment products. ResumeFinder allows any recruiter, regardless of training or ability, to quickly locate the resumes of passive Internet candidates using the Google search engine. By simply entering a keyword or two you can see ResumeFinder go after those hard to find passive candidates for your tough assignments. Its integration with your browser makes installation easy without having to spend thousands of dollars per year the competition charges for similar features. You can use ResumeFinder to: Search the Internet for keyword-specific resumes Search the most popular Internet communities for resumes Search specific geographic areas for any skills

Christopher Scott is the President & Founder of A Day of Hope as well as an AmeriCorps*VISTA Member working out of the United Way in Modesto, CA. A Day of Hope is a non-profit organization that delivers hundreds (soon to be thousands) of food baskets to needy families for Thanksgiving. As an AmeriCorps*VISTA Member Christopher works with non-profit organizations in Stanislaus County helping doing capacity building and creating sustainable systems for find, recruiting, and retaining volunteers. An avid blogger, Christopher is always trying to find new ways to reach out and help more people. Whether it be by delivering a food basket on Thanksgiving to a needy family, speaking about non-profit leadership to a small group, training a non-profit org. on volunteer leadership, or just being a mentor to someone else that wants to have a positive impact on the world. On May 23, 2007 A Day of Hope was awarded the Greatest Achievement Award. Beating out over 80 other clubs and organizat

Source: eGrabber Newsletters The Notes tab in contact managers like ACT! and GoldMine is a great place to store transcripts of phone calls, emails, interviews or any kind of correspondence with candidates. Storing this kind of information and referring to it once in a while helps you understand the candidate better. This enables you to make the right hiring decisions.