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Newsletter - Tips for Recruiters   July 07, 2009

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  Include Related Job Titles in your Resume Search  
   

You might sometimes have the tendency to get stuck by a single title that your client (company) may use to describe a job position. In today's industry, job titles are changing frequently. For example, software programmer, software developer, software engineer, etc. are different job titles for the same job function. So, unless you use all the related titles in your search, you are likely to miss out on some good candidate leads.

One way to find all relevant job titles is to first search the career sites using the (only) job title given by your client. Take note of the job titles that come up. Most sites provide a "View similar jobs" link beside the job titles in the results. Clicking that link will get you a series of similar positions categorized by Freshness, Overlooked, Relevant, etc. Under the Relevant category, you will find jobs similar in content to the position you are searching for.

You can include all such relevant job titles to expand your search.

Ref: Resume Forensics by Jim Stroud

 
       
 
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  Use Trigger Words in your Job Postings  
   

Recruiting is very much a sales activity - you try to convince candidates to buy your company's or client's employment value proposition. So, it only makes sense to adopt any good sales and marketing technique for things that you do. One such good practice is the use of trigger words; phrases that can make your job ads and postings very attractive and powerful.

Usually these are phrases that get your prospective candidates excited - that in simple terms, explain a hard-to-describe benefit and so on. The best way to identify trigger words for a job posting is by talking to employees in that job role. If you wish to attract top talent in the industry, talk to top performers in the company first. Pay rapt attention and capture the exact words they use to describe their job and its benefits. Such phrases or words can be priceless. Get them to say what makes their job and the company exciting. Next, use those exact phrases to craft your job ads.

 
       
 
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  Power Tools to Quickly Build your Resume Database  
   

Sourcing resumes from the Internet, screening for qualified ones and then transferring them to a database are 3 major activities involved in building a resume database. Unfortunately, each of these activities consumes a huge amount of time.

But, with the following eGrabber power tools for recruiters, you can do it in an amazingly short period.

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Buy eGrabber recruiting solutions today and save 90% of the time and money you would normally spend in manually building a resume database.

 
       
 
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  Resources you can use – Sales Gravy  
   

Sales Gravy is a large online community of sales professionals. In addition to providing networking opportunities, it allows members access to free resources and to look for available sales jobs. Recruiters use this resource to search for resumes of sales professionals and post their job ads for free.

You can get more information from the Sales Gravy website.

 
       
 
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