Recruiter's Essential Tips

When hiring is strong, most recruiters are so busy that they find it tough to take time out for training. But, even the most seasoned recruiters need to have their skills refreshed from time-to-time. So, you can use the current market conditions (of slow hiring) to the best of your advantage by honing your skills in each of the following areas: - online sourcing techniques (including use of social media) - networking (both online and traditional) - interviewing strategies and methods - interpersonal communications - expertise in using the applicant tracking system, and more... Not every recruiter or organization will need to train on all of the above. But, training in any one or more of these tasks will definitely equip you for the present and the future.

MySpace Classifieds is actually one of the resources, least used by recruiters looking for job postings. Here's how you can search job postings on MySpace Classifieds: 1. Go to http://www.classifieds.myspace.com/job/ 2. Enter your search criteria in the Search tab 3. Choose the location and click on Find it! Another similar, but underutilized and powerful resource to search job postings is the Google Base . In both these, you will also find options to refine your search based on industry, work experience, employment type, education, and more. Use these two sources to get new job postings.

The easiest way to search for job postings on Twitter is by using the Site command in Google. The search syntax is as follows site:twitter.com +jobs (keywords) For example, to search job postings for sales managers on Twitter, you can use: site:twitter.com +jobs (sales manager OR sales director) Clicking on the results will direct you to tweets that in turn will have a link to the job posting in detail.

Sourcing candidates from the Internet, screening for qualified ones and then entering their details into a database are 3 major activities involved in building a resume database. Unfortunately, each of these activities consumes a huge amount of time. With the eGrabber power tools for recruiters, you can accomplish all of the above and more in an amazingly short period. 1) ResumeFinder: An automated resume search tool that programs search engines to find passive resumes, of your choice, from – resume portals, social networking sites, Internet communities, blogs, etc. ( Download 3 day free-trial ) 2) ResumeGrabber : An automated resume import tool that extracts resumes from almost any source on the Internet, screens and transfers qualified resumes to your existing database. ( Download 3 day free-trial ) Buy eGrabber recruiting solutions today and save 90% of the time and money you would normally spend in building a resume database.

Cold-calling people you do not know, especially for candidate sourcing, could be a big time-waster. Instead, apply the "low-hanging fruit principle of selling" as your sourcing strategy - call your existing candidate database first. These are people you have worked with earlier and have a good relationship. Make sure you get 2-3 high-quality referrals on every call. The ability to get high-quality referrals is often the secret behind recruiters who are highly successful and considered experts or extremely professional. You need to pre-qualify every referral and only call those who are worthy. A great referral will call you back if you mention the name of the person who referred her. By focusing on your existing database first, you at least know that you are calling people who are good and who will call you back.

Source:- eGrabber Newsletters There are many paid services that allow you to get comprehensive lists of people working for specific companies. But the best thing is that some have a free component or pages that can be viewed publicly using Google. The Google search script to search company contacts (name and title) from Zoominfo is site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (keyword) "company" For example to search for contacts of Directors at Sun Microsystems, the search script will be site:zoominfo.com inurl:people (manager OR director) "Sun Microsystems" Clicking on the results will display the contacts' name and their actual job title in the company. Use this script to quickly source passive candidates.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows the user to post 140-character tweets (Twitter updates) and display 160-character bios (User profile) in his/her Twitter account. Although the tweets are restricted to 140 characters, the viral effect of Twitter helps the users to convey the messages to hundreds and thousands of Twitter followers in no time. Twitter has quickly reached millions of users and it has grown tremendously over the past couple of years. It has grown at a staggering rate of 1382% as of February 2009 (YOY) and is competing with the leading social networking giants like Facebook and MySpace. Twitter is gaining more popularity and its user base is rapidly increasing on a daily basis. A lot of Twitter-based tools, widgets, and services are now available. Twitter is being used in information gathering, networking, businesses, advertising, corporate branding, recruiting and in a lot of other areas as well. The recruiting and staffing industry