October 2000 Recruiting-Online Newsletter

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Greetings from your Internet Recruiting guru at
www.Recruiting-Online.com, in cooperation with 
www.CommunityClassifieds.com/Employment

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* FREE JOB POSTING SITE OF THE MONTH

Vault.com: This career 'watercooler' site has become a top job-seeker 
destination with its active bulletin boards, yet its job postings are 
free.  There is a fee if you want to cross-post to 50 other or so 
sites they have affiliated with.
http://www.vault.com


* FREE RESUME SOURCE OF THE MONTH

I discovered this at the NEHRA.com Convention in Providence, RI a few 
days ago (more from this event in my next newsletter):  Major 
outplacement firm Lee Hecht Harrison has put over 15,000 of the laid-
off employees of their client companies in a searchable database.  
You don't have to be a LHH client to use it.  Full contact 
information with each resume.  Just fill out a short form to get an 
access password.
http://www.lhh.com/us/resume/resres.html


* INTERNET RECRUITING TOOL OF THE MONTH

Treeba.com recently introduced their TreebaHire product which does 
virtual candidate screening and interviewing.  Candidates go through 
a series of dynamic questions which automatically compares them to 
others applying for the same job. The highest rankers are then 
invited to a virtual video interview, which requires nothing more 
than a computer equipped with a digital camera.
http://www.treeba.com


* GENERAL RECRUITING TIP OF THE MONTH

Lou Adler, founder of PowerHiring, shares some common-sense, top-
level thinking for using the Internet in your recruiting strategy in 
a column for career portal Headhunter.net's recruiting e-newsletter, 
Hireadigm:
http://www.headhunter.net/JobPoster/Hireadigm/Inside0300.htm


* INTERNET RECRUITING NICHE OF THE MONTH

Minority candidates:  Many recruiters stereotype diversity career 
sites, thinking they're only good to help comply with EEO rules and 
to find less-educated, lower-wage workers.  Not so!  Many of these 
sites focus on such desirable categories as engineers (e.g., check 
out the National Society of Hispanic Engineers' job site at 
http://www.diversilink.com).  If you subscribe to our course, see 
many more such niche sites (recently expanded) at:
http://www.recruiting-online.com/course1/course55.html


* RECRUITING EVENT OF THE MONTH

Kennedy Information's e-Recruiting & Staffing Expo 2000 will take 
place Nov. 16-17 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.  This 
one's shaping up to be pretty good, between the conference sessions 
and the opportunity to see so many Internet recruiting solution 
vendors in one place.  Details at:
http://www.e-recruiting2000.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

In our live and online seminars, I emphasize virtual communities as a 
way to reach passive job seekers.  If you pick the right ones, you 
can use full Boolean syntax in your search strings.  For example, try 
pasting this in the search field on Angelfire.com to find Java 
programmers in Eastern Massachusetts:

resume AND java and (develop* or program* or engineer* or architect) 
AND (MA NEAR (781 or 508 or 617 or 978))

To understand why this works so well and to learn how to adapt this 
to other desired candidate skilltypes or other geographic areas, if 
you have attended one of our seminars or subscribed to online-only 
access, go to:
http://recruiting-online.com/course1/course15a.html


* INNOVATIVE RECRUITING SITE OF THE MONTH

What does it take to motivate desirable passive job seekers to 
interview, let alone take an offer?  Imaxo.com thinks paying cash 
will do it. Their new business model empowers candidates by allowing 
them to set their "Interview Price" -- the amount they believe is 
fair compensation for the time and effort it takes to meet with 
prospective employers.  Employers browse resumes, and decide whether 
or not they are willing to pay the amount indicated by a candidate 
for an interview.
http://www.imaxo.com


* RECRUITING NEWS OF THE MONTH

On Oct. 23, the HR-XML consortium, a diverse group of companies 
establishing standards for data exchange in the human resources 
field, approved the Staffing Exchange Protocol (SEP) for 
standardizing job postings on the Internet.  The new XML-based 
standard provides a common method for posting employment 
opportunities to web-based recruiting sites and the return of resumes 
matching those positions. HR-XML SEP makes it possible for employers 
to submit job requisitions to publishers without the need for 
customized interfaces. Resumes conforming to HR-XML SEP are 
retrieved, searched and evaluated more easily. Job seekers access a 
targeted range of positions with better-defined requirements. 
Companies not part of the consortium are invited to use the new 
standard and help it evolve.
http://www.hr-xml.org/channels/news_and_events.htm


* RECRUITING PARTNERSHIP OF THE MONTH

National residential broadband provider Telocity will offer a free 
month of high-speed Internet access with no obligation to any of the 
six million users of Headhunter.net, the career portal which recently 
acquired rival CareerMosaic.com.  Those who wish to continue with 
Telocity pay $49.95/month.  Now maybe some of those passive job-
seekers who typically search for jobs on the sly using their faster 
Internet access at work will do it from home instead!
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* RECRUITING STATISTIC OF THE MONTH

About 70 percent of the U.S. workforce now has access to the Web at 
work, up from 63% in 1999, reports high-tech research firm, Cahners 
In-Stat Group.  By 2004, that should rise to nearly 85%.  Large 
employers have the highest Internet penetration.  Among small 
businesses (5-99 full-time employees), it's over 80%. SOHO businesses 
(fewer than 5 FTEs) have been slower to adopt Internet technology, 
with a penetration rate under 75%.  More details:
http://www.news.onvia.com/x15163.xml?tfrm=1


* HOW DO I LEARN MORE?

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online.com -- or take it online at your own pace for only $100/person 
if you can't come to a seminar.  We also present the live seminar on-
site at your company for only $175/person, including customization!  
For details, contact:
glenn@recruiting-online.com (email), 508-285-6065 (voice), or visit
http://www.recruiting-online.com/courses.html

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This popular full-day seminar held near Boston, already attended by 
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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 instructor."