Recruiter's Essential Tips

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Search engines support a number of advanced search features that make your job of searching resumes much easier. These features are usually used along with simple operators. Every web page has a title, given by the web page developer, that often contains the word 'resume' if the page happens to be a resume type document. Now, if you are looking for resumes of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), your search string in Google will be: intitle:resume cpa This simple search string will only display resumes with the word CPA in the resume text. You can replace the keyword at the end of the string to look for other resumes of interest to you.

Is it possible to select an ideal, perfect candidate for a position? This is a complex question because the next question that arises is: Who is the ideal candidate? There is no definition for an ideal or perfect candidate as the metrics vary for each organization. Candidate selection is to be made based on various factors like skill set, qualification, experience etc. Apart from these aspects, it is important to analyze whether the candidate will suit for the culture of the team and the organization. Most of all, it is very essential that the candidate should turn well with the team lead or the manager. To be concise, look into the skills, attitude, and personality of the candidate. Decide whether these factors will do extremely well with your organization and select the best candidate.

PC Recruiter for Web is an online Application Tracking System combined with Contact Management System. PC Recruiter enables to maintain the candidate profiles in a database. When a candidate moves to next stage, it can be recorded in the database and hence it is easy to track the history of a candidate. This is widely used by HR Professionals, Recruiters and Executives as a complete staffing solution. ResumeGrabber Pro integrates with PC Recruiter seamlessly and transfers resumes to the PC Recruiter database within seconds. In addition, ResumeGrabber checks for duplicate records in the PC Recruiter database before transferring a new contact. ResumeGrabber saves the contact details and the resume data in the Rollup list of PC Recruiter. ResumeGrabber Pro has changed the approach of many MRI Network Managers who work out to source, organize, and save resumes in the PC Recruiter database. The MRI Network has verified and approved ResumeGrabber to be used by the Owners-M

It is better to involve the employees emotionally in the organization rather than providing them the monetary and other benefits. Nowadays the ownership culture is becoming a trend. Making the employee to feel as the owner of the business is the idea behind the ownership culture. This makes the employees to be more attached to the company and be more involved in their job. The ownership culture provides more rights and more responsibilities to the employees. Naturally, the employees hold the responsibility for the success of the company. They are deeply motivated by the emotional feeling and are attached to the organization. Obviously this increases the work performance. The ownership culture can be infused by involving the employees while creating company policies, obtaining their opinion and feedback for important decisions, providing them enough freedom for decision making about their projects etc. Anyway, the flip side has some disadvantages. If the employee lacks

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Some of the best people you hired might have come through somebody you knew - a referral. The social networks and community sites that employees associate with are sources of high-quality job applicants. You can expand your pool of good candidates by tapping into such rich sources. You can create a referral portal on your website, where your employees can log in to recommend friends and professional acquaintances for current openings. You can now get to hire top candidates using the knowledge, expertise and social networks of your company's employees.

Searching for resumes in Internet using the search engine is an exhausting work. Especially, when the search engine throws out millions of results, it becomes tedious to go through all the resultant web sites and retrieve the resumes. In addition, you need to be proficient with the advanced search commands to get exact results. With eGrabber ResumeFinder , it is simple to search for passive candidates as the software contains all the in-built logics used by the search engines. The software contains a toolbar that allows you to enter simple keywords and provides results efficiently by implementing the advanced search commands used by Google. Now you can use the complete intensity of Google without the need of being an expert in the search commands. If you are already an expert with the commands, you can customize the software with your own search logic settings. This will provide more competent results. You can try the trial version of ResumeFinder from: http://www.egrabber.com/

There is an idiom – “You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.” Perhaps, the horse may not be thirsty! Your motivational training may cost you a lot but if it is not targeted at the right employees, it is of no use. You may think that you are providing an excellent opportunity to your employees. Anyway, the employees should have the interest and flair for learning new things. You need to recognize employees who are really interested in the training and engage them in to the program. So, identify the really “thirsty” employees to make your motivational training classes to be productive and effective.

You need to attract a potential candidate by your Job Ad. Writing the Job Ad is not merely listing your requirements. The text should draw the attention of an eminent performer to immediately contact you. Don’t forget that other recruiters are also looking for top candidates. Start the Ad with an impressive headline. Your Ad should target the candidates with essential skills. While describing the job details, use action words like ‘Challenging career’. Provide the contact details clearly. Mention the mode to contact you and make it very simple. You can also get inputs from your existing employees for the job description. For example, if you are looking for a salesperson, get details from the existing sales team about the required skills and what is fascinating to them in their job. This helps you to frame the Job Ad attractively and get more responses.

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is the currently popular trend to maintain structured data. Nowadays, XML is used to exchange information as it is system independent, platform independent and flexible. When you want to send data to a person using a different system, XML is very handy, whereas other document formats may not open properly in the other system. You can save your candidate details and resumes in XML format for easy exchange with other recruiters and managers. ResumeGrabber Pro supports export of resume data to XML file. Once you screen the resumes, you can select the appropriate resumes and export them to XML format. You have the option of saving multiple resumes in a single XML file or saving each resume as separate XML file. The XML files are easy to exchange via internet and you can easily download the data into a database that supports XML format.

Source: eGrabber Newsletters "Anchor" is an HTML tag used by developers to create web pages basically for two purposes. One is to create a link to another document and the other is to create a bookmark inside a document. You can use this tag to locate resumes on the Internet as Google and a few other search engines allow you to search the web page for this tag. This is surely a lesser-known and under-utilized method but can be very productive. Using it is simple. Type this search string in the Google text box: anchor:"view resumes" Click the search key and you will get a list of many pages that have a link or button that says "view resumes". Some of the resume pages will require passwords but many won't as there are many free resumes sites on the Internet. You can add a keyword or two at the end of the string to look for resumes of interest to you.

Employers often tend to make counteroffer when an employee is about to leave the company. Anyway, the counteroffer is very tricky. This acts as a ‘quick fix’ but does not work for a long-term retention. Although counteroffer helps you to retain a potential employee, it may lead to other disadvantages. The major drawback is, it may demoralize other employees. They may have a thought like “So this is how I get a rise or promotion?!” . Another drawback is this may raise the ego of the person receiving the counteroffer. However, there are advantages like saving the time and money spent to hire and train a new professional. Review the performance of the employee and make the counteroffer if the person is potential enough to be retained. The counteroffer need not be monetary but even a new career path for the employee with more challenges. Analyze the reasons behind the exit of an employee and try to solve the problems. This may serve the long-term strategy to retain employees.

One common reason for candidate failure and early turnover is the candidate being misled about the job or company during the recruiting process. It's only natural to paint an overly rosy picture of the job, but the net consequence of over-glamorizing is that many new hires quickly become disillusioned, disappointed or even angry when they find out that their real job compares little to the one outlined in the interview. An effective approach for avoiding this rosy description is to give the candidate a realistic job preview. This should include both positive and negative aspects of the job. It generally includes not just the types of bad and good things that occur, but also their frequency of occurrence. For instance, we have flexible scheduling, but only 10% of the employees take advantage of it.

Today, finding passive candidates on Google requires recruiters to master and apply advanced search commands and techniques that require time, effort and expertise that many may not have. But being able to quickly zero in on relevant passive resumes on Google, without being a search expert, will be a tremendous competitive advantage for busy recruiters. This free webinar will introduce you to 1) Automated tools that quickly find passive resumes on Google 2) Automated tools that import, organize, screen and transfer resumes 3) Recruiting best practices that will raise the value you provide to your clients Spending just 45 minutes on this webinar will open your eyes to simple solutions that will help you source and manage resumes in 1/5th of the time you normally spend. Webinar attendees will receive exclusive offers on eGrabber's power tools- ResumeFinder and ResumeGrabber. Presenter: Mark E.Berger, CPC, AIRS CIR Internet Sourcing Expert Date: Friday, January 11,