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Employee Referral Programs – Are they effective?

Many organizations recruit candidates through the employee referrals. The major advantage of this type of recruiting is, it is the least expensive method. As the existing employee is already aware of the Company’s culture, policies and recruitment process, the person may be referring to candidates who will fit-in to the Organization’s environment. This makes the hiring manager’s job easy to screen the right candidate. Providing referral incentives to your employees motivates them indirectly. Anyway there is also the flip side. As the employees may be referring to candidates from their known circle only, the chance of getting a quality candidate becomes less. If the employee is not aware of a person who will fit in to the job requirements, then the referral may not happen at all. A Research suggests that people hired through employee referrals tend to have longer tenure and higher job satisfaction. Yet, national surveys indicate that only 10 to 15 percent of positions ar

Batch your Tasks for Faster Placements

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Successful recruiters 'batch' their tasks and thereby make more placements in far less time. If your assignment deals with a non-local or national market, see if you can set up a block of time for an employer to phone-screen several candidates on the same day, rather than spread the interviews days or even weeks apart. You might even offer to facilitate a teleconference or three-way call yourself. And when qualified candidates are brought in for their face-to-face interviews, try to arrange for all the candidates to meet with your client over a one or two-day period. Batching tasks helps you to control the candidate flow infuse a sense of urgency in your tasks, and focus on results

Search Internet Communities for Resumes

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Internet communities are online gathering places for like-minded people. Personal websites on these communities most often have a person’s resume posted as well. Using Google or Yahoo!, you can easily search for matching resumes from these communities. The search string syntax is as follows : site:website (resume | homepage) keyword For example, to search America Online's community for resumes of java programmers you can use site:members.aol.com (resume | homepage) java programmers You can use this technique to search resumes from popular online communities such as GeoCities, Angelfire, FortuneCity, Tripod, etc.

ResumeGrabber helps Connect Faster with prospective candidates

ResumeGrabber helps drastically cut time on inefficient business processes, enabling to connect faster with an increased number of prospective candidates. A Business Coaching and Training company recruits and trains franchisees/coaches. Based on proprietary sales, marketing, and business management systems, its processes are structured to help owners of small and medium sized businesses increase their business revenues and profits. Problems faced The company advertises for coaches on HotJobs, CareerBuilder, Monster and local job boards. They get about 10 to 12 resumes per week from job postings. Simultaneously, they also cold-call prospective candidates. They use CareerBuilder and Monster job boards to search for prospects who reside within the allotted territory, have business background as well as experience in coaching, training, managing etc The process of searching resumes of prospects and manually processing them took atleast 4 hours every day. It greatly reduced the numb

Free Webinar by Mark.E.Berger on Search Passive Candidates on Google using Automated Tools

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 60 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: Thursday, March 27, 2008

How to deal with a troublesome employee?

If an employee is lacking in skills or knowledge, it is easy to tackle the person. You can provide more training and hone the skills to suit the job requirements. But, if you have employees with negative attitude, it is tedious to handle them, because their negative approach may affect others’ productivity. Observe the employee’s activities for some time to make certain of the attitude. The first step is to speak to the employee through your Human Resources Department. Ensure the employee that you know about the person’s attitude and behavior, and you are not happy with that type of mind‑set. See whether this has an impact. If this does not work, you can speak to the employee directly and find out the problem. Check whether the negative attitude of the employee is the person’s nature or is it due to issues in the company. If it is the latter one, you can try to solve the problem. But if it is the person’s nature, you have a tough time. Think well; whether the employ

Resources you can use – RecruiterResources

Source: eGrabber Newsletter RecruiterResources is an online guide for the staffing, human resource and recruiting industries. Resources include staffing industry publications, information on recruiting associations, job fairs, etc. with links and descriptions for each. You can get more information from the RecruiterResources website.

Advanced Resume Search in Google

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.

Selecting the best candidate

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.

Recruiting solutions for PC Recruiter users

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

Cultivate Ownership Culture

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

Create In-house Referral Portals

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.