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Recruiting and Staffing on the Internet - Part 3
"There is a "Gold Mine" out there" (This article is one in a series of articles on how to set up an HR Corporate Home Page. This article concentrates on the advantages of recruiting and staffing on the internet). Today we are going to talk about "mining" the internet for job information. This will bring together some of the topics we have talked about in previous columns and give us a check list for getting the most out of the information and resources available out there. What you need to get the job done: 1. Internet access 2. e-mail address 3. your own corporate homepage;
5. Publish your company employer profile (mirror of company homepage) on career hubs. That way more job seekers will find your company by searching on key words. 6. Negotiate reciprocal agreements to link your site with all your suppliers and/or clients (Check PeopleSoft partners at http://www.peoplesoft.com) 7. Link back to homepage from career hubs. 8. Post your openings on Usenet, an area with thousands of topic areas including hundreds of job posting sites, such as tor.jobs and ont.jobs. 9. In hard to fill jobs, post short summaries about the job opening, pointing to your web site with all the details to Industry listservers. For example, trying to fill a key HRMS implementation position, post a short note to HRIS-L. Note: Listservers are discussion groups and there is a low tolerance for frequent and lengthy job postings, where such postings are common and expected on Newsgroups such as on.jobs. 10. Build your own database of resumes for recruiters to work with. 11. Build strategy for communication with people into your resume database -example would be regular updates via e-mail on what is going on with growth, and development and new opportunities. 12. Resume mining on the net
Here is a step by step process: 1. Choose a search engine; try HotBot for your searches, Yahoo, or Dejia News. 2. Select the types of skills your want in the resumes (people) you are looking for: example: do a search for Oracle programmers that live in Ontario. The search was "oracle ON." 3. Add a filter to your search for resumes by typing the singular "resume." 4. Try to filter or screen out company and commercial sites by choosing the "modify" button on HotBot. 5. Again under modify select the drop down box and choose "must not contain"; now in the box type "opportunities resumes classified." This should adequately filter out most sites and leave you with a search of actual resumes of both experienced and currently enrolled college students. 6. Remember to experiment with all the words in this search; for example: change "oracle" to "C++"; change "ON" to "Ontario". 7. Limit your search by time; choose date and select the "updated in the last six months" - now you're resumes will be recent ones that are from people who are somewhat interested in making a change. 8. Capture resumes and put them into a database and start communicating on the phone, in writing, and via e-mail 9. Select a few of these prospects and try video conferencing. How? Have your candidate available at a specific time for an interview; buy a camera and software for about $300; overnight the camera to the prospect and have them install the camera on their computer. Have a real interview. If all goes well in the video interview you can invite the candidate to a second interview on-site. You will have used technology and saved money to make a strong hire for your company. Good luck. (Thanks to Tom Flood of JobWeb, http://www.jobweb.com/ and Gerry Crispin for sharing their thoughts on recruiting and staffing on the internet. Gerry is a co-author of "CareerXRoads" an new book about Internet Recruiting. Check: http://www.careerxroads.com/) Hot Sites of the Month: Search Engines for Searching for Jobs and Resumes: HotBot Yahoo Alta Vista Deja News Information on Human Resource and other listservers people can join: "Liszt" http://www.liszt.com/ Liszt is a searchable directory of more than 65,000 e-mail listserv discussion groups; the Liszt web site is maintained by Scott Southwick "Phenix HR Discussion Groups" http://www.pmihrm.com/p5a.html Al Doran's list of HR discussion groups and how to join them. Note: HRIS-L and HRD-L have moved to: HRIS-L@cybertouch.com HRD-L@cybertouch.com To join HRIS-L send a command: subscribe HRIS-L (your internet address) to: Majordomo@cybertouch.com Career Hubs: JobWeb CareerConnect: The Toronto Globe and Mail . JobMatch: JCI Technologies Heart Career Mosaic Monster Job Board Job Network Job Center Job Network Career Magazine Job Boards on Usenet: (These are also called newsgroups. Thousands of posts a week on most of these but the good news is it does not come into your e-mail. You need software such as FreeAgent (Shareware) to access these newsgroups or if your patient you can look at the posts on the www at DejaNews.) Toronto Jobs Ontario Jobs Vancouver Jobs Ottawa Jobs Nova Scotia Jobs Alberta Jobs -Al Doran is President of Phenix Management Int'l, a Richmond Hill, Ont. management consulting firm specializing in HRMS issues. He is co-author of a new book published by Nelson Canada, Human Resource Management Systems. He may be reached at: aldoran(at)pmiHRM.com and his home page is http://www.pmihrm.com/
COPYRIGHT - Al Doran - Feb 21, 1997 Phenix Management Int'l
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