9. December 2009 by admin.

If all the major competitors for the same product offer their service at the same cost, what sets them apart? I believe the answer is ease of use or simplicity. Glance offers one-click screen sharing, and I mean one-click. No software to download, or embedded program pop-ups. I was recently invited to attend a product demo for a new resume search tool and all I did was enter in a user code. The remaining information like name and contact details were optional. In less than a second, I was watching the demo.  Just for reference, here is the pricing and basic service details for 3 major web-conferencing/meeting products.

Glance.net - $49.95/mo
one-click screen sharing
# Unlimited online meetings
# Up to 100 participants per meeting

WebEx.com - $49/mo
# Unlimited online meetings
# Up to 25 participants per meeting

GoToMeeting.com - $49/mo
# Unlimited online meetings
# Up to 15 participants per meeting

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9. December 2009 by admin.

A free passive and active candidate sourcing tool to find resumes and candidate profiles on top social networks and search engines. (e.g., Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, ZoomInfo). ReferYes provides tools for sourcers and recruiters to help them find candidates online. Now, you don’t have to be a Boolean expert or familiar with the X-Ray search techniques to source candidates. It also includes an automated advanced search strings developed by search experts to find resumes and candidate profiles on the web.

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6. December 2009 by admin.

Find free resumes on the Internet using the eGrabber widget below. A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be easily installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page without requiring additional coding..
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2. December 2009 by admin.

BlackWidow Search Engine Spider is an internal website spidering utility that will index your entire web server and create an ASCII output file of urls. Explores subdirectory structures.  The script runs and creates a flatfile database of every single url on your server.

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2. December 2009 by admin.

In these tough times, it’s great to find a totally free and great addition to track your income and expenditures. It’s so easy to use. With Intuit QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2009, you’ll spend more time growing your business and making money, not bookkeeping. Track sales & expenses for up to 20 customers. Instantly create invoices, pay bills, & print checks. Organize finances in one place. Stay organized. Track the money flowing in and out of your business. Know who it comes from and where it goes. Simple Start Free keeps sales, expense, and customer information in one place, so it’s easy to find what you need when you need it. Be ready at tax time. As you complete everyday transactions, you’ll be automatically tracking tax-related income and expenses, making tax time a snap. Simple to learn and use. Get started quickly. Step-by-step tutorials show you how to create invoices, record expenses, and more.

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2. December 2009 by admin.

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30. November 2009 by admin.

Does staying ahead of the technology curve really place the Internet Recruiter at the front of the pack? The answer lies in how difficult, confusing, or time consuming the entry was into cyberspace. There are so many criteria to consider like the type of Internet service provider to use, how to protect your bread-and-butter candidate database, controlling what goes on your company web site, how to use all the newfangled software in this world, and how to jump in and use the correct charm or netiquette to produced the desired results.

In the 21st century, working smarter means using easy to understand tools that everyone can use, but still pack a powerful punch. Here is a suggested process with examples of powerful applications that are simple to work with, can greatly save you time and resources, and don’t require you to mortgage your business.

Targeting Your Audience

Your job description should give you enough information to determine the skill sets and specific location for the work. Use a search engine to identify groups, associations, companies, user groups, blogs, etc. where you would likely find this talent. If your company has purchased access to one or more fee-based resume services, you can also search these databases for candidates matching your criteria.

Meta-search tool for both fee-based and free resume sources - Platinum Recruiter – Infogist.com

Meta-search tool for free resume sources - Copernic Agent Professional - Copernic.com

Aggregator for identifying multiple sources of passive contacts from URLs - Broadlook ProfilerX - Broadlook.com

Aggregator for identifying multiple sources of passive contacts from using search engines - Broadlook Diver - Broadlook.com

Extracting Your Contacts

It can be very time consuming to copy and paste email addresses from resumes or lists, or any document that contains them.
EMail Address Pro – A1Soft.com

Scrubbing Your List

When pursuing less than active job seekers, it is common that their contact information may have changed or is unreachable. To avoid straining your mail server or possibly being blacklisted as a spammer, it’s important that you daily clean and verify your contacts.

Advanced Maillist Verify – Mailutilities.com

E-Mail Communication

The most used application for sending individual emails is Microsoft Outlook. An excellent mail application, but not yet designed to handle personalized and large quantity broadcasts. Use of the blind copy (bcc) method is not recommended or proven to be totally safe and reliable.

Email blasting to an unlimited number of addresses - Platinum Recruiter – Infogist.com

Filtering Undeliverable/Do Not Send

All external email sent out should give the receiver the ability to opt-out or unsubscribe from any future mailings. Similarly, get in the habit of collecting all mail that is returned as undeliverable.

EMail Address Pro – A1Soft.com

Indexing Your Results

Over time, you will amass both a large collection of resumes and contacts. The easiest program to track your contacts is Microsoft Excel. However, for resumes, you will need a robust relational database, that is not an applicant tracking system, which can index resumes in almost any format, located anywhere on your computer and/or network drives.

dtSearch Desktop with Spider – dtSearch.com

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28. November 2009 by admin.

When pursuing less than active job seekers, it is common that their contact information may have changed or is unreachable. To avoid straining your mail server or possibly being blacklisted as a spammer, it’s important that you daily clean and verify your contacts. Advanced Maillist Verify is a program that verifies the validity of e-mail addresses in databases, address books and mailing lists.

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28. November 2009 by admin.

Broadlook Technologies’ Diver was built for the recruiter who uses search engines to find candidates and contacts. Part browser, part high speed information parser; Diver rips through search engine results pages.

Diver’s built to work just like you do, using popular search engines as a data source. So, whether you merely “google for resumes” or you’re a boolean string expert, you can easily use Diver.

Simply put your search criteria into the engine like you normally do and conduct a search.

Diver then scans through each result link, and pulls out all contact, and resume information.

You can then export the information to your CRM, ATS, or even Excel, or Outlook. You can even save favorite searches as ‘bookmarks’ and run them on a continual basis.

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28. November 2009 by admin.

Customer Service: Even the best technology has little value unless users adopt it eagerly and enthusiastically through the help of multi-tiered support for its users.

cBizSoft utilizes a ticketing system for support.  Users either email support or enter their issue on their web site and a ticket is automatically created.  The ticket is then assigned to an available service representative for resolution.  First response is usually within 5-6 minutes and resolution time depends on the issue.  They provide support via email, phone and web cast session.  They include customer support at no cost to the user.

Speed/Security: Everyone has felt the frustration of working with slow or unsafe technology that holds you back from accomplishing your pressing work.

Speed:  cBizOne has the fastest search capability in the industry, hands-down.  Their live search bar can find any record in the database with just a few characters entered.  Also, they are one of the few vendors that allow a client to host the database on their LAN, if they choose.  No browser-based system can touch the speed of running an application on the LAN.

Security:  cBizOne is user name and password protected at the application level and the database level.  Also, each client has their own database and is not part of one large database.  With regards to their hosted solution, their data center partner has the following security in place:

Facility/Security: Their primary Data Center is located inside of an 18-floor, all steel frame, secure building known as the Bandwidth Exchange Building. It is one of the largest telecommunications facilities in the central region of the United States. Most of the major carriers - such as AT&T, MCI, Verizon, Qwest, Level3, Southwestern Bell and others have facilities at this same location.

Their 22,000 square foot Data Center can accommodate large server farms, data cages, and even private suites. They maintain direct multi-Gigabit bandwidth connections into four of the top five Internet backbone carriers, including AT&T, MCI/Verizon (UUNET), Qwest, and Level3.

The building receives electricity from three separate power feeds on a spot network that provides for automatic failover capabilities. The Network80 Data Center maintains level current and short term power backup through a complex UPS system, and protects against possible long-term power failures with two 1.5 megawatt diesel generators. Ideal temperature and humidity is accurately controlled with redundant cooling systems.

Equipment is protected by a pre-action, dry pipe fire suppression system. A high level of physical security is maintained through a five level system that includes access codes, a security guard station, biometric hand scanners, electronic proximity readers and security cameras. Network security is maintained by redundant firewalls and a proactive intrusion detection system. Their firewalls only allow needed traffic through to the appropriate application servers.

Backup Availability: Backups are taken off hours and all systems stay online and accessible during the backup operation. Backups are taken nightly and stored locally on the network for easy recovery. Offsite backups are performed weekly and can also be recalled for recovery.

Ease of Use: Having a system that is easy to use is a cornerstone of all products. What good is a platform if it’s too difficult to work with?

cBizOne is extremely intuitive and the user interface is designed to have a comfortable feel for anyone who has ever used a Microsoft application.  Features and functionality are where you would expect them.

Configurability: Configuration should be easy and swift as opposed to the complex and costly customizations that so many vendors have turned to these days.

cBizOne is fully user-customizable.  They give users the tools to make any customization they need themselves.  They only become involved if their needs are very complex or unique.  A lot of products in the industry have the look and feel of a 747 cockpit.  Because they can’t be customized easily, every piece of functionality needed across different business types and models is in your face at all times.  cBizOne can be streamlined to only have the functionality and fields you require.

Single Platform: Eliminate costly implementations and reduce the need to train users on multiple HRIS software programs by utilizing a single platform.

cBizOne is a complete front-office recruiting and sales solution.  While they don’t offer any back office features, everything a company needs to run their sales and recruiting is included.

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