September 2000 Recruiting-Online Newsletter

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* FREE JOB POSTING SITE OF THE MONTH

Craigslist, the non-profit job postings site that's one of the 
biggest in the San Francisco area, has just launched lists in eight 
new cities: Boston, Chicago; LA; NYC; Portland, OR; Seattle, San 
Diego and Washington, DC. While the sites "get going," employers can 
post jobs for free.
http://www.craigslist.org


* FREE RESUME SOURCE OF THE MONTH

Scholastic Recruits is a strategic recruiting consultancy to help you 
market on campuses.  If you want more interns or graduating college 
students as employees, they're offering a 30 day free trial, 
including unlimited access to thousands of undergraduates and 
graduate candidates of all types - passive, active, and future job 
seekers - who are pre-qualified and pre-screened.  Their other 
services (also included during your free trial) include job and 
internship postings on their site, expertise from our University 
Relations staff, assessment to analyze your company's successes and 
determine new methods to explore to enhance your internal recruiting 
efforts.
http://www.scholasticrecruits.com


* INTERNET RECRUITING TOOL OF THE MONTH

Multi-database resume search tools are proliferating.  The best ones 
are those that allow use of the full range of Boolean search 
operators (and, or, not, near, *, etc.).  While I've been a fan of 
Resume infoFinder Gold from Infogist.com and BullsEye Pro 2.5 from 
Intelliseek.com for a while, However, fellow Internet recruiting guru 
Bret Hollander of www.NetRecruiting.net is a big fan of the products 
from StaffBots.  Their ResumeMole is not great, but I've been testing 
ResumeSeeker, and it's worthwhile.  Get 14-day free trial access at:
http://www.staffbots.com


* INNOVATIVE RECRUITING SITE OF THE MONTH

Jobfly.com spiders 20 other career portals (Monster, Headhunter, 
etc., plus some niche ones) so you can use one search form to comb 
through the 1 million-plus jobs posted on all those sites.  Like its 
primary competitor, CareerBuilder, it automatically removes duplicate 
jobs.  Like its other rival CareerShop, Jobfly pushes the TV angle:  
you can see featured employer profiles in audio and video.  Jobfly's 
other unique twist is an optional small window that displays a 
streaming list of the five most recent jobs posted that match your 
search criteria.  It's a convenient way to monitor jobs while doing 
other things at your computer, says Jobfly CTO Howard Lee.  
Unfortunately, very few of the jobs Jobfly spiders can be inserted 
into the streaming applet, so it resulted in displaying one job at 
most when I ran it.  Mr. Lee assured me they will fix this, so keep 
an eye on this site.
http://www.jobfly.com


* INTERNET RECRUITING NICHE OF THE MONTH

Healthcare:  First off, are you aware there are associations of 
recruiters just for this industry?  Pick the brains of your peers for 
recruiting tips in this niche: Association of Staff Physician 
Recruiters (www.aspr.org), Medical Group Management Association 
(www.mgma.com), and American Society for Healthcare Human Resources 
Administrators (www.ashhra.org).  The biggest healthcare niche job 
site is MiracleWorkers.com, which just got bought by the overall #2 
career site Headhunter/CareerMosaic!

If you're registered with our course, then go view many more 
healthcare recruiting resources at:
http://www.recruiting-online.com/course1/course54.html 


* RECRUITING EVENT OF THE MONTH

Fast Company magazine has engaged the high-tech world with its unique 
take on the industry.  Now they're getting into the job fair business 
with Fast Company TalentLab.  But the agenda is loaded with top-
drawer speakers covering HR/recruiting topics, rather than just the 
cattle call of exhibitor booths staffed by recruiters.  The Boston 
event is October 5-6, 2000; the San Francisco event is Sept. 25-26.  
This new breed of career fair sounds intriguing.
http://www.fastcompany.com/talent

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

When you want techies, don't forget newsgroups.  The same Boolean 
searches you use on the Web work here, too, with slight changes to 
syntax.  And it can be even better if you're targeting employees at a 
particular company (e.g., a competitor), because Deja.com's Power 
Search lets you search by the email address of the sender.  For 
example, to find anyone at Cisco who has ever posted to any 
newsgroup, go to www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml and in the 'Author' 
field, type:

*@cisco.com

Then click the Search button.  In the results, click the Author's 
name for their email address and for links to every message that 
person has posted.  Click on the Subject line to read the actual 
message.  To narrow your results to Cisco staff with the skill sets 
you seek, type a Boolean phrase with relevant terms (e.g., java and 
xml) in the 'Enter keywords' field on the Power Search form.

To learn how to adapt Boolean search strings 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


* RECRUITING NEWS OF THE MONTH

The International Assn. for HR Information Management has launched a 
site for HR, HRIS, HRIM and IT professionals compiling more than 
2,300 vendors of HR products, software and systems consultants, as 
well as objective, current reports on technology trends and new 
offerings.  You can filter information by specific topics.  It's free 
for IHRIM members, and for a $175 annual subscription fee for non-
members.
http://www.ihrim.org/opsd


* GENERAL RECRUITING TIP OF THE MONTH

What often makes the difference for a candidate between two otherwise-
equal job offers?  Apparently, it's the contact between employer and 
candidate during the interview process.  Recent actual examples 
reveal that the company which sent a small gift or a welcome card 
signed by the staff of the hiring department got the nod over the 
firm which made no such gestures.  As low cost as those deal-sealers 
are, it may require no cash at all:  The position requiring an 
interview process lasting over several weeks didn't keep earlier 
interviewees updated.  Candidates' follow-up emails asking for an 
update also went unanswered.  A competing firm facing a similar 
protracted interview schedule instead used its autoresponder software 
to send a generic email weekly telling each candidate s/he was still 
under consideration.  The latter firm ultimately got the hire.  Are 
you using autoresponder software effectively?  It's free. Learn more 
at:
http://www.recruiting-online.com/samples.html


* RECRUITING PARTNERSHIPS OF THE MONTH

In August, eProNet.com, the job/resume site to recruit alumni from 75 
top-tier universities, announced a partnership with 
UniversityAngels.com, the entrepreneur/angel investment resource 
serving students and alumni of the world's top schools, with over 
1,300 investors.  The startup companies in University Angels get 
direct access to the experienced professionals they need, and 
eProNet's candidates benefit from University Angels' investor and 
entrepreneur programs.
http://www.epronet.com/corporate/info/press.asp


* RECRUITING STATISTIC OF THE MONTH

According to an IDC study released in June, 41% of online job seekers 
use the Internet to research companies, 37% seek salary data, 36% 
post resumes and 27% want career advice.  How many of these needs 
does your Web site address?  (If you've taken the Recruiting-
Online.com seminar recently, you already know how you can provide all 
of these for FREE on your web site.)  For more of the IDC study, 
visit:
http://www.idc.com


* HOW DO I LEARN MORE?

For those who have attended my seminar recently, you have access to 
all of the above and more by logging in at www.recruiting-
online.com.  If you can't come to a seminar, remember you can take the 
course at your own pace online.  We also present the live seminar on-
site at your company for multiple recruiters.  For details, contact:
glenn@recruiting-online.com (email), 508-982-6746 (voice), or visit
http://www.recruiting-online.com/courses.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 instructor."