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• Tools of the Trade: A growing list of useful offerings from third-party vendors for sourcing and/or recruiting productivity which are completely free or can be tested under a no-obligation, free trial period.
• Certifications: Learn more about what technical qualifications exist and how to compare them to evaluate candidates.
• Free Blind Email & Internet Access: A procedure enabling you to send and receive email messages anonymously. Very useful for confidential hiring needs.
• Recruitment Newsgroups List: A comprehensive list of more than 200 recruitment-specific newsgroups.
• Recruitment Listservs List: A less complete, but useful group of listservs for recruiting certain candidate niches and several searchable listserv mega-indices on the Web to put you in the right direction.
• Companies shutting down, laying off, or downsizing: How to find them early so you can then contact their employees before they get scooped up by other firms.
• Free Job Posting Sites: A fairly comprehensive list of Web sites that accept job postings from employers free.
• User groups by location: If you're looking to network with computer techies in particular at the grass-roots level, start with this comprehensive list.
• Industry associations, conferences and events: Trade groups are a great networking tool for recruiters or job-seekers alike. Most have web sites where you can post jobs, find out about virtual and live events, etc.
• Employee Referral Programs / Networks: Some thoughts on the traditional ERP, and some third-party sites that enhance it by leveraging personal networks to refer candidates.
• Books for Recruiters: For those who like having a hard-copy reference, here are some good ones for online recruiting.
• Newsletters for Internet Recruiters: A list of some shorter-format print and online publications that should be useful, including the associations they are affiliated with.
• Recruiters Networks: Recruiters are starting to realize that networking on the Internet is highly efficient and mutually beneficial to all. Here are some that can help you now.
• List of HR Listservs: Networking and picking the brains of one's peers is often the best way to get information, which these listservs are well-suited for.
• Top Web Sites: Links to the latest statistics of the most-trafficked sites. If you're going to spend time and/or money reaching passive candidates, these are among the biggest pools to tap.
• Technical Terms Dictionaries / Glossaries: When you're hiring technically-savvy candidates, it helps to know some of the jargon when you're evaluating their resumes.
• Lookups & Reverse Lookups: Find area codes, postal and zip codes in the US and abroad, values/distances within a range, etc. If you only have the candidate's phone number or email address, these resources can often get you the name and other useful contact information.
• Friends Networking sites: An extension of the virtual networking concept that Recruiting-Online.com has long espoused, these portals help people network through friend-of-a-friend connections, a la the "six degrees of separation" concept.
• Autoresponders: Using automated emailing to help maintain communication with candidates when you don't have the time/resources to keep them all "warm".
• E-newsletters: Despite the growth of blogs in recent years, e-newsletters remain a powerful tool to maintain passive candidate communication, raise employer brand awareness and enhance your credibility within your niche candidates.
• Corporate and Collegiate Alumni Networking Services: A growing trend among companies to benefit from ex-employees and former students, as well as for recruiters to tap into such pools

• Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Medical (series of pages): We have partially broken out medical, but some sites/resources work in both categories.
• Law Professionals: When you're looking for attorneys, paralegals and other legal talent, start with these sites.
• Diversity Resources: Diversity isn't just meeting EEO requirements for minority recruitment. Hiring diverse candidates can make a real difference in a company's overall success. These sites and methods can help you find such candidates.
• Recruiting Women: If finding enough female candidates is challenging in your field, try these sites and groups.
• Information Technology: Recruiting for Information Technology professionals is always a challenge. Here are some hidden and not-so-hidden proven gems. List includes special section just for Oracle DBAs.
• Finance / Accounting / Investment: Every company needs some of these kinds of candidates. Here's a list of job sites (to find active candidates) and virtual communities (for passive ones).
• Insurance / Claims: Some of the resources on the Finance page above may be relevant for this category, but these definitely are.
• Auditors: In the age of Sarbanes-Oxley, use these sourcing resources to make finding qualified auditors less of a challenge.
• College and Entry-Level: If you're looking for new graduates, these are the top portals and job sites to tap.
• Education/Academia: Niche sites for candidates in teaching and academic administration.
• Freelancers / Contract Workers / Free Agents: If you can't find enough full-timers or you need the specific skills of a contractor, a whole new crop of sites have emerged to let you find freelancers.
• Military & ex-Military: Another interesting candidate niche to tap; they transition surprisingly well to the corporate world.
• Aerospace & Aviation: Some of the sites listed here go beyond just these industries, but they do include a meaningful number of those jobs/candidates.
• Executive/Senior Management: If you want niche sites that exclusively target upper-level candidates, these are where to start.
• HR Portals: If you're looking for human resource professionals, as well as other resources to help people like you.
• Real Estate: Sources for both residential and commercial RE professionals.
• Recruiting in the United Kingdom: If Britain is your target, start with these resources.
• Recruiting in Canada: A growing list of resources for North of the border.
• Sales and marketing: While some of the industry-specific categories above may help with finding these professionals, many sites treat sales and marketing as skill sets in and of themselves.
• Customer service and call centers: Quite a few trade associations and niche job boards serving this growing function/industry.
• Companies That Hire Virtual Recruiters: If you now consider yourself an Internet sourcer and would like to find virtual (telecommuting) recruiting work, here are some companies hiring people like you.
• Project Managers: Very little in the workworld would get accomplished without project managers. In larger companies, you can't have enough of them. Here's where to find them.
• Dietitians and Nutritionists: Understand the differences between them, and find them.
• Power Systems Engineers: Some creative approaches to sourcing in a narrow niche, which is inherently challenging.
• NICET-certified engineers: When you're looking for folks with experience in the small niche of fire suppression / fire alarm systems.
• Competitive Intelligence professionals: Some resources and associations that CI professionals tend to utilize.
• Top MBA Schools: Some ways to reach these students and alumni.
• Construction industry workers: Some ways to reach these professionals, including HVAC.
• Financial Regulatory Compliance - education and recruiting resources for this niche
• Retail industry resources - some resources/methods when recruiting for retail
• Plastic injection molding resources - some resources/methods when recruiting in this niche
• Electronics engineers - for those who design, manufacture and service electronics components
• Hospitality professionals - for those in the hotels, motels, travel and meetings industries
• Petroleum engineers - resources to find these valuable candidates and some related energy roles
• Expert networks - great way to find experts or offer yourself as one

• Intranets: Establish an internal-access only Web site. It has many valuable uses and is cost-effective.
• Exit interviews: How to use them as recruiting and retention tactics, too.
• Netiquette: Guidelines for online behavior. It can save you and your company some embarrassment.
• Free Online Assessments/Inventories: Tests to help evaluate potential and current employees, free.
• Salary Surveys and Geographic COLA Comparisons What is the appropriate compensation package for any of 30,000-plus job titles, and how do those salaries vary by location? Free resources here.
• General online user statistics: Who and how many folks are on the Internet.
• Polling Software: The ability to run polls on your site can help make it more interactive, and many of the newer Web tools are free.
• Other Internet Newsletters: A list of other e-newsletters useful for keeping up on Internet usage, audience statistics, etc.