November 2000 Recruiting-Online Newsletter

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* FREE JOB POSTING SITES OF THE MONTH

FinCareer is for positions in global finance.
http://www.fincareer.com

JobGorilla skews to high-tech positions and has a national scope.  
Everything on this site is free to employers.
http://www.jobgorilla.com


* FREE RESUME SOURCES OF THE MONTH

ITI e-Business Professionals: You need a password, but it's free.  
ITI is an IT training institute, accepting those who already have a 
Bachelor's degree or higher to take additional e-business 
coursework.  Many students are hired before they graduate!  Post a 
job free, then search for resumes that match.  ITI schools are in 
Portland (Ore.), Seattle and Denver, plus various locations in 
Canada, so expect that's where candidates are from.
http://eprofessionals.iti.com

CF Advisor (i.e., Cold Fusion) allows for free job posting and resume 
searching.  Only a few hundred in the database so far, but good 
developers on Allaire's platform don't grow on trees!
http://jobs.cfadvisor.com/api-shl/EntryEmpl_Frame.cfm


* INTERNET RECRUITING TOOL OF THE MONTH

ProFusion is the free Web-enabled equivalent of Intelliseek's 
BullsEye software, letting you search for resumes, news stories 
(e.g., about yourself, competitors or companies downsizing/layoffs), 
etc.  Check out the MyProFusion and MyProFilter tool links near the 
lower right of the page, too.  The best part is they store your 
queries and results and/or email you new matches as often as daily.  
Remember to select "Boolean" in the "Search Type" menu and precede 
terms you want with a plus sign, and a minus sign preceding terms you 
want to eliminate.  (See ADVANCED SEARCH STRING section below if you 
need help creating Boolean queries.)
http://www.profusion.com/


* GENERAL RECRUITING TIP OF THE MONTH

Did you know that some outplacement firms allow you to search their 
candidate databases online?  And some, like DrakeBeamMorin, even let 
you post job openings free.  For details and to set up a free 
account, visit:
http://www.dbm.com/hiring/access.html


* INTERNET RECRUITING NICHE OF THE MONTH

HR professionals:  If you're recruiting for HR generalists, benefits 
or compensation specialists, etc., you have many places to choose 
from!  Relatively few of the niche job sites are free, but here are 
two that even let you get resumes free (though neither is high 
volume):  IFEBP and WorldatWork (formerly the ACA), located 
respectively at:
http://www.ifebp.org/resumes
http://www.worldatwork.org/Content/Joblinks/joblinks-want-frame.html

For many more such sources, login to our course (see "HOW DO I LEARN 
MORE?" below if you lack access) and go to:
http://www.recruiting-online.com/course1/course63.html


* RECRUITING EVENT OF THE MONTH

Hunt-Scanlon, a leading marketing intelligence firm for executive 
recruiters, will hold "Achieving Human Capital Advantage," a two-day 
symposium on how to secure top talent in today's competitive labor 
market, on Feb. 7-8, 2001 in New York City.  Scheduled to appear are 
speakers and panelists from Fortune 500 companies, venture capital 
firms, investment banks and executive search firms successfully 
winning the talent war:
http://www.hunt-scanlonconferences.com

To see other Internet recruiting events, visit:
http://www.egroups.com/calendar/recruiting-online?s=2


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* ADVANCED SEARCH STRING OF THE MONTH

You want experienced (i.e., not still in college) Java developers in, 
say, Connecticut, but searching for "Java developers" doesn't yield 
enough resumes?  That's partly because such folks may call 
themselves "engineers" or do "Java programming" or "architecture."  
So go to Altavista.com, click on Advanced Search and:

1) put in the "Boolean Query" box:
java and (engineer* or develop* or program* or architect*) and (CT 
near (203 or 475 or 860 or 959)) and not (url:.edu or submit or reply 
or job* or HR or eoe or "human resources")

2) put in the "Sort by" box:
resume url:resume title:resume

Then click "Search."  To learn why this works, how to adapt Boolean 
search strings to other desired candidate skilltypes or other 
geographic areas, login to our course (see "HOW DO I LEARN MORE?" 
below if you lack access) and go to:
http://recruiting-online.com/course1/course15a.html


* INNOVATIVE RECRUITING SITE OF THE MONTH

We have to hand it to both DotCom.Failures and FuckedCompany (excuse 
our French, but that is really the latter site's name).  These sites 
were launched in part to poke fun at the dot-com craze and feed on 
rumors about high-tech companies in trouble.  However, they are great 
free sources for recruiters looking to find laid-off staff (or likely 
to be) before it's too late.  Visit, respectively:
http://www.dotcomfailures.com
http://www.fuckedcompany.com

For more resources to find companies where people are on the way out, 
login to our course (see "HOW DO I LEARN MORE?" below if you lack 
access) and go to:
http://www.recruiting-online.com/course1/course48b.html


* RECRUITING NEWS OF THE MONTH

Is the new trend Recruiting Radio?  I've discovered two weekly radio 
shows devoted to recruiting, using industry experts as guests to 
answer job-hunters' questions live.  These follow in the footsteps of 
pioneer The Job Show, which was on Boston radio and then TV before 
folding for financing reasons.  Tell us if you know of other such 
programs! Check out:
http://www.wjgr.com/listen_online.html
or http://www.itrecruitermag.com/RadioShow/
or http://www.pctalent.com/geeks/


* RECRUITING STATISTIC OF THE MONTH

How easy do you make it for visitors to your company web site to see 
your jobs?  According to a recent report by RecruitSoft/iLogos, Inc., 
73 percent of the Fortune 500 have their corporate homepage one click 
from their Careers section, but only 9 percent enable Careers section 
visitors to email job descriptions to a friend. This feature taps 
into a site visitor's referral network and effectively provides 
prescreened applicants at no sourcing cost. For more from this 
report, visit:
http://www.recruitsoft.com/iLogosBestPractices

And for more ways to make your web site more effective as a 
recruiting tool, login to our course (see "HOW DO I LEARN MORE?" 
below if you lack access) and go to:
http://recruiting-online.com/course1/course28.html


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From your ally in the online recruitment world,
Glenn Gutmacher, http://www.Recruiting-Online.com
"I'm not just the president, I'm also the chief instructor."