23. November 2009 by admin.

Platinum Recruiter searches hundreds of the best online resume sources and is optimized to retrieve the highest quality resumes with a robust set of search criteria.  It can also search resumes on your local hard drive, your LAN, your Web based email accounts, and many ATS databases.  And they are continually adding, updating, and fine-tuning to give you the most complete, accurate set of resume sources available.

Highlights:

Unmatched Precision - retrieves, analyzes, and screens  every resume it finds using powerful search capabilities.  It  scores and highlights the text using your key terms,  and automatically extracts location and email address information.  Resumes can be sorted by relavance, location, and source with a single mouse click.  And the results can be refined locally with new search criteria without having to repeat the Internet search.

Automated Searching - lets you set up agents to automatically find and organize resumes.  For example, you can tell Platinum Recruiter to run a variety of searches overnight, save your results, and export the resumes into your ATS automatically.  All of the results found by scheduled searches are saved, and available to review and refine later.

Smart Integration - integrates with desktop, enterprise  and web applications.  Do you need to contact your prospective candidates via email?  With Platinum Recruiter, you can create email message templates and send batch emails to all candidates that meet your criteria in just a few mouse clicks.  Already have a batch email solution?  You can import and export your contact email addresses  between Platinum Recruiter and other mailing systems.  Do you use an Applicant Tracking System?  Platinum Recruiter not only lets you search many leading ATSs for candidates, it also lets you export resumes into your ATS by file, direct web access, or email.

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23. November 2009 by admin.

ePrompter automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your email messages from up to 16 password protected email accounts such as AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink, Email.com, Excite, iName, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, Netscape, POP3, OneBox, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo, Switchboard, USA.net and hundreds of other email domains. Once new messages have been retrieved, it notifies you which accounts have new messages and how many new messages you have in each account. The notification features include a unique rotating tray icon, the main screen, audio alerts for new messages, and a choice of five unique screensavers that let you know at a glance the number of new messages in each account. And with a simple click on the account of your choice, you can read, delete or respond to any of your messages. You also have the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious looking mail - the kind that might contain viruses - without having to launch your email program or go to your web mail’s site. You can compose and send original messages, as well as forward or reply to your retrieved messages, again without having to launch separate email programs. It’s so easy to set up and use, you’ll have it up and running in minutes.

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23. November 2009 by admin.

The following ten URLs all point to a specific resume. However, can you spot any other information in the URL that would lead you to many more resumes?

1) http://www.arch.virginia.edu/career/resume/resumes/mco5y.pdf
2) http://members.nova.org/~jamesf/resume.html
3) http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~kapild/files/docs/resume.pdf
4) http://www.free-for-recruiters.com/Resumes/NY/1707886-Resume.html
5) http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/resume_7__cv_2002-06-19.HTM
6) http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~levow/jim/resume.html
7) http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lisetsky/resume_may_09_web.pdf
https://www.student.gsu.edu/~jan5/it2010_webpage/Resume.htm
9) https://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/Design/D4P/EGR486/ME/06-Projects/Webbing/Danielle%27s%20resume.htm
10) http://gicl.cs.drexel.edu/people/sevy/resume.html

Search Strategy 1:

Peel back the URL. For example, in URL 1, peel back or delete the filename of “mco5y.pdf” and see the new results of personal resumes, dated from 12/6/04 to 7/11/09.

You can do this again for URL 4, by peeling back “1707886-Resume.html”. This will display all the resumes from New York. Try swapping out NY with another state abbreviation such as VA and see your new results.

Search Strategy 2:

Perform a domain site search in Google, AltaVista, or other robust search engine. Since each URL has the word “resume” in the URL, simply insert this word in your search string, followed by the AND operator and lastly the SITE: command and the corresponding domain information.

URL 5: resume and site:homepages.nyu.edu
URL 6: resume and site:people.cs.uchicago.edu
URL 7: resume and site:physics.arizona.edu
URL 8: resume and site:student.gsu.edu

These are just two of many creative strategies you can use to uncover passive candidate resumes on the web.

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23. November 2009 by admin.

(intitle:”curriculum vitae” OR inurl:vitae OR intitle:vitae) <keyword> -about -jobs -inanchor:apply -inanchor:submit

(intitle:”resume for” OR intitle:”resume of” OR intitle:”Curriculum Vitae” OR intitle:”’s resume”) <keyword> -intitle:example -intitle:examples -intitle:sample -intitle:submit

(intitle:”resume for” OR intitle:”resume of”) <keyword> -inanchor:apply -inanchor:submit -inanchor:sample -intitle:how -intitle:write

(intitle:resume OR intitle:”curriculum vitae”) +<keyword> -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -write -sample

(intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR intitle:homepage OR inurl:homepage) <keyword> -jobs -inanchor:apply -inanchor:submit

(resume OR cv OR vitae OR homepage) <keyword> -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -template -wizard -free -write –sample

~resume (filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc OR filetype:rtf OR filetype:htm OR filetype:html) <keyword> -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -write –sample

~resume <keyword> -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -template -write -sample -inurl:books -inurl:product

<keyword> ~cv (intitle:blog OR inurl:blog OR intitle:blogs OR blog OR blogs) (rss OR feed OR archives OR posted OR tags OR comments OR trackback OR author) -job -jobs -send -submit -you -inanchor:apply

site:craigslist.org inurl:res <keyword>

site:devbistro.com inurl:resumes <keyword>

site:linkedin.com for (inurl:in OR inurl:pub) -intitle:directory -intitle:recently -intitle:”company profile” <keyword>

<keyword> site:plaxo.com (intitle:profile OR inurl:profile) -intitle:sign -inurl:public

inurl:edu (intitle:resume | inurl:resume| intitle:cv | inurl:cv | intitle:”curriculum vitae” | inurl:”curriculum vitae”) -submit -apply -free -sample -samples -job -jobs

intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR Intitle:cv OR inurl:cv OR Intitle:vitae OR inurl:vitae OR Intitle:bio OR inurl:bio) -submit -apply -jobs -templates -writing -services +<keyword(s)>

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23. November 2009 by admin.

Find a List on Google:  <keyword> List OR listing OR directory OR members OR staff OR attendance OR membership OR members

Find a Company:  <keyword> corp OR llc OR corporation OR inc OR incorporated

Find a Member Directory:  <keyword> phone AND email AND (brown OR johnson OR jones OR smith OR white OR williams) AND (members OR member)

Find a Person:  (email OR mailto OR phone) “<keyword>”

Find a Tradeshow:  <keyword> Tradeshow OR Expo OR convention OR Event OR symposium OR conference

Find an Association:  <keyword> association OR society OR organization OR center OR consortium

Find an Org Chart:  <keyword> (chart phone email (org OR organization OR organizational or orgchart)) filetype:doc OR filetype:opx OR filetype:pdf

Find a Resume-1:  inurl:resume intitle:resume <keyword>

Find a Resume-2:  (intitle:resume | intitle:”my resume” | intitle:”resume of”) inurl:base intext:<keyword>

Find a Resume-3:  (objective OR summary) education (”<keyword>” OR “<keyword>”) “<keyword>” “<keyword>”

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23. November 2009 by admin.

Your sourcing team is on its A-game, identifying over 200 resumes each day that match a basic keyword search.  Your fee-based databases are matching your opportunities to job seekers who are also sending you their resumes, based on either the job seeker’s basic search criteria or the job database resume agent. At the end of the day, you’ve got a ton of resumes. Wow, your managers must be singing your praises.

Then I remember an article Dr. John Sullivan  posted on ERE.net in January 2000, called “Torture By Resume”.

The “Wow” factor will soon stop when you’ve amassed a thousand resumes in one week and now have to sort through them all to determine which can move on for review by your hiring managers. Do you enter them all into your Applicant Tracking System (ATS)? If so, who is going to do this Herculean administrative task? If you’re a government contractor and you do put them in your ATS, then will you be hit with the double whammy of collecting OFCCP data, another time-consuming task.

But wait – don’t despair. There is a solution which is very inexpensive, incredibly robust, used by many of the who’s who in the industry, and will greatly reduce your time in processing and identifying those “A-List” candidates that should be entered into your ATS.

This solution has been one of my Top 10 Tools since I first discovered it in 1997 and have been blushing over it ever since. It is called dtSearch, and it can instantly search terabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet site.

I personally maintain my own “database” of over one million resumes. It’s not really a database, but several folders on my computer where I store either individual file resumes in a variety of formats such as Microsoft Word, Ascii text, Rich Text Format, Adobe PDF, HTML, etc., or just zip or compress thousands of them into one file. Regardless, dtSearch can easily index all these formats and return the product(s) of your search in seconds.

The features of dtSearch are mind blowing. For most recruiters this may seem daunting. But they offer a very easy to understand “How-To” animated demo and their incredible free telephone technical support takes me back to my WordPerfect days.

So, before you invest any more time in parsing all those “found” or “collected” resumes into your ATS, consider just storing them on your computer or network shared drive, and only pull out those that match your discerning criteria to be entered into your ATS.

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