Where do your candidates come from?

Source: Web MarketingRecruiter.com

ExecuNet periodically surveys their members as to the methods they utilize to land that next great hire..

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AMD, LinkedIn - Layoffs

clipped from www.adotas.com ADOTAS – Chipmaker AMD reduced its workforce by 3%, or roughly 500 staffers. In April, the company laid off 10% of its staff. LinkedIn has announced that it’s cutting 10% of its staff (about 36 jobs). LinkedIn recently raised $22.7 million in funding (in June it raised $53 million). Veoh, an online video-sharing site, also announced layoffs – roughly 20% of its staff, or 20 people. While revenue for the company is reportedly growing, the gloomy economic forecast was blamed on the cuts. In June, Veoh received a $30 million round of funding.

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Fortune 500 Companies Slashing Raises, Planning Layoffs

clipped from workforce.com In coming weeks, a number of Fortune 500 companies are planning to cut merit raises and conduct further layoffs as they continue to wrestle with the economic downturn, according to recent polls conducted by the Corporate Executive Board. As of mid-October, 30 percent of the 100 compensation and benefits executives polled said they were planning to reduce their 2009 merit budgets, while 45 percent weren’t sure yet, according to a poll conducted by the Corporate Executive Board, a Washington-based organization that provides best practices information and support to member companies. “Based on conversations since that poll was conducted, it would seem that more companies have decided to reduce their merit budgets or get rid of merit raises altogether,” said Michal Kislevitz, managing director at the Corporate Executive Board. “Things are changing quickly.”

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Search Personal Homepages on Geocities

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

Yahoo! Geocities is a popular Internet community. Personal home pages on this community will most often have a person’s resume posted as well. Using Google or Yahoo!, you can easily search for matching resumes from these homepages. The search syntax is as follows:

site:www.geocities.com (resume | homepage) Keyword (City, State)

For example, to search Geocities for resumes of java programmers in San Jose, CA, you can use

site:www.geocities.com (resume | homepage) java programmers (San Jose, CA )

You can use this technique to search resumes from popular online communities such as Angelfire, FortuneCity, Tripod, etc.

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LinkedIn launches New Applications

clipped from www.searchengineguide.com This initial roll out features productivity applications that range from gathering information that professionals around you are generating to enhancing your abilities to collaborate and communicate more effectively. You'll be able to work much more closely with your contacts on LinkedIn with tools such as file sharing, project management, business trips and many more. The nine applications that you see live today on LinkedIn include productivity enhancing applications from Amazon, Box.net, Google, Huddle, Six Apart, SlideShare, Tripit, and WordPress as well a Company Buzz application developed by LinkedIn. Each of these applications will help you stay current and competitive as a professional in today's rapidly changing business world.

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Top 10 reasons that makes an Employee Unhappy

clipped from www.rediff.com Unfair rewards and recognition Office politics Un-cooperative team Unreasonable boss Insufficient compensation Constant threat to job security Lack of responsibility in the current job No clear career path Seating location Lack of basic facilities at workplace

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Use a "Forward-Thinking" Recruitment Approach

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

An economic downturn may be the best time to get new recruits. With companies resorting to cost-cuts, corporate downsizing and layoffs are in the news everyday. This is a scenario where organizations actively release top talent into the job market; a rare opportunity with few or no job openings and a considerable pool of available top talent.

A "Forward-Thinking" recruitment approach lets you make the most out of talent that is without work in the market. This is the time to replace weak employees in your company (or at your clients') with the best in the market. Seek out departments or business units in your organization that have the potential to perform or grow during a recession and staff them with new hires. You should also look at long-term recruitment objectives and hire talent that will contribute to growth once the economy rebounds. Understand that it costs much less to hire during a downturn.

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Yahoo to announce layoffs this Week

clipped from www.alleyinsider.com We heard whispers of this last week, and now the Merc is hearing them, too: Yahoo will reportedly announce its mass firings on the earnings call this week. A reader tells us the company has scheduled an all-hands meeting in Sunnyvale on Wednesday, presumably to deliver the message that all Yahoo employees already got from the Merc and Google News. Let's just hope Yahoo isn't dumb enough to announce the firings now and then wait until mid-December to actually make them. Let's also hope the company doesn't cut too few people and then have to go through the same horrific process again in Q1.

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AdBrite cuts 40% Staff to survive the downturn

clipped from www.mediapost.com Online ad network AdBrite is laying off 40% of staff, or about 40 employees, as it restructures amid an economic slowdown chilling both online and offline ad spending. AdBrite is the second company backed by Sequoia Capital to make significant employee cutbacks following the now-famous meeting the venture firm held last week with portfolio company CEOs, stressing the need to control costs and become profitable to survive the downturn.

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Increase in the % Workers participating in Employee Retirement Plans

clipped from workforce.com The percentage of all workers participating in employment-based retirement plans was 41.5 percent in 2007, up from 39.7 percent a year earlier, according to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Among full-time workers 21 to 64 years old, 55.3 percent were in an employment-based plan in 2007, up from 52.7 percent the previous year, according to a news release on the study issued by EBRI in Washington. Other findings in the study were: • 63.9 percent of workers 55 to 64 were in a retirement plan in 2007, compared with 28 percent of workers ages 21 to 24. • 57 percent of full-time female workers participated in a plan in 2007, compared with 54 percent of male workers. • Florida had the lowest representation of workers participating in plans in 2007, at 42 percent. Wisconsin had the highest participation rate, at 68 percent.

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eGrabber Forms Strategic Partnership with Zoho

Source: eGrabber Press Release

San Jose, CA, Oct 09, 2008 - eGrabber, the leading Silicon Valley-based provider of sales lead and resume data capture and processing solutions, announced ResumeGrabber Pro support for Zoho People. This integration will allow Zoho People users to auto-extract resumes from the Internet, Outlook inbox, PC folders, etc. and have them entered into Zoho People.

The partnership between eGrabber and Zoho will be a wide-ranging relationship that will leverage the complementary core strengths of both these organizations to the benefit of the customer.

"This collaboration with Zoho provides a combined scope with opportunities to significantly extend our solutions to a much wider audience" said Chandra Bodapati, CEO, eGrabber. "This partnership will benefit Zoho People users immensely as it will transform the way they source and process resumes."

eGrabber's solutions will completely eliminate the pain of having to manually screen every resume and copy-paste contact information from each selected resume into Zoho People. One has to simply select the resume or contact information and click on ResumeGrabber to enter resumes into Zoho People.

"This partnership will give recruiters exactly what they need to improve their productivity manifold" said Sridhar Vembu, CEO, AdventNet. "Combining eGrabber's patented data-capture solutions with Zoho People will add incredible efficiency to the workflow and maximize revenues."

ResumeGrabber for Zoho People is priced at an annual subscription fee of $495 only. For more information on the product, please visit http://www.egrabber.com/resumegrabberpro/

Information on all other products, including ResumeFinder, ResumeGrabber Professional and ListGrabber Professional, can be found at http://www.egrabber.com/

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General Motors eyes more job cuts

clipped from www.vindy.com General Motors Corp. is likely to announce further production cuts and possible plant closures as early as next week as it deals with slumping sales and a collapse in its stock price, a person with knowledge of the company’s plans said Friday. The person, who did not want to be identified because the plans are not finalized, said the cuts likely will hit engine, transmission and stamping operations to correspond with a June announcement that GM would close four truck and sport utility vehicle assembly plants. The closure dates for those plants likely will be accelerated, the person said. GM announced last week that its Moraine, Ohio, SUV factory will close Dec. 23, and it has said it will idle assembly factories in Oshawa, Ontario; Toluca, Mexico; and Janesville, Wis., by 2010.

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Micron planning to cut staff by 15%

clipped from www.computerworld.com Micron Technology Inc. and Intel Corp. plan to shut down their joint production of NAND flash memory from a plant in Boise, Idaho, and Micron plans to lay off about 15% of its workforce in another sign that the economic meltdown is taking its toll on some tech companies. The moves are a result of a combination of lowered customer demand and product oversupply in the market, Micron said in a statement. Intel and Micron, through their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, were supplying NAND flash memory from Micron's Boise facility. The shutdown will reduce the joint venture's NAND flash production by about 35,000 wafers per month, in the factory using 200-millimeter manufacturing lines per month. IM Flash Technologies also has a facility in Lehi, Utah, which has 300mm manufacturing lines.

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Retirement Age 67 is the target for 48 percent of US Workers.

clipped from workforce.com Only 48 percent of American workers plan to retire at age 67, with others planning to work longer, according to a survey released by Sun Life Financial. The data also showed that only 46 percent of those surveyed are “very confident” they will have enough money to take care of basic living expenses at 67, and 28 percent are “very confident” they will be able to take care of medical expenses. Younger generations have little confidence that government benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare will be available when they retire, as 63 percent of workers 30 to 39 years old don’t believe Social Security will be available. The same age group also noted the need for employer-sponsored health care benefits as a reason to work past 67.

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Search Profiles on MySpace

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

MySpace, one of the most popular social networking sites, is no longer the exclusive domain of teenagers. The average age for people on this site is now about 35 years. There are millions of MySpace users and many of them are professionals (potential passive candidates).

The search syntax for finding profiles on MySpace is

site:www.myspace.com keyword

If you are looking for passive prospects from a geographic area, you can include the state code at the end of the search string. For, example, if you are looking for profiles of Certified Public Accountants from California, the search string will be

site:www.myspace.com Certified Public Accountant (California | CA)

Use the above search technique and explore the vast possibilities that MySpace can offer, especially to locate those hard-to-find candidates for your assignments.

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MIT Study - Bias Creeps into Bonus Process

clipped from workforce.com Employers generally believe they are being as fair as possible by rating employees’ performance annually and basing their bonuses on those ratings. But a recent study by a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management shows that might not always be the case. In the study “Gender, Race and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers,” professor Emilio Castilla found that despite being in the same job with the same supervisor and receiving the same performance ratings, white men often received higher bonuses than minorities. The study, which examined 9,000 exempt and nonexempt nonmanagement employees at a U.S. company with a workforce of 20,000, compared white male and minority employees who were in the same job and work unit. They also had the same supervisor and experience and education levels.

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Hiring in India affected by US economic slow down

clipped from workforce.com Rising inflation and the downturn in the U.S. economy are forcing Indian employers to slow hiring, freeze wages and fire underperformers to maintain profit margins. “Efficiency and output delivery will be the core mantras at play,” said brand consultant Harish Bijoor. The slowdown is tangible, as the number of information technology and business process outsourcing deals dropped to 78 in the first quarter of 2008 from 109 in the first quarter of 2007, according to India-based research firm Value Notes. By the second quarter of 2008, according to Value Notes CEO Arun Jethmalani, the number of deals slid to 58, down from 101 a year earlier.

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Use Multiple Websites for your Job Posting

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

Surveys show that nearly 17% of recruits found their last job from an ad posted on an online job board. Internet resources are clearly effective as a key component of any effective recruitment strategy. Though most recruiters are unanimous in accepting the above fact, they are a bit pessimistic when it comes to increasing their Internet recruiting capability. They restrict their job postings to a handful of familiar sites.

There are more than 45,000 job boards and career portals in the U.S. alone. Successful recruiters are more open to exploring this pool to find sites that might be appropriate for their openings. Expand your sources to include at least 5 different sites for posting job ads. By including alternative sites in your online recruiting, you can widen your net and attract more number of prospects.

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MphasiS reduces hiring plans by 50 per cent.

clipped from www.rediff.com Bengaluru-based IT outsourcing services provider MphasiS, an EDS company, is reducing hiring plans by almost 50 per cent. At the beginning of this financial year, the company had guided the Street that it would recruit around 8,000 people. It now plans to recruit just 4,000. MphasiS has historically been strong in the banking, financial services and insurance space. It derives over 40 per cent of its revenue from this sector. Two of the world's top five brokerage firms are its clients. AIG, which was recently bailed out by the US government, is also one among its customers. Earlier this week, Hewlett-Packard -- which bought IT services company EDS last month -- said it would make 24,600 staff redundant over three years.

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Build your Candidate Pipeline

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

Finding the right candidate, for the right position, at the right time is the key to making you a successful recruiter. One of the ways to ensure that is by building a strong candidate pipeline. There are two strategies to achieve this - passive and active recruiting.

Most recruiters rely heavily on active strategies for building their candidate pipeline. This is done only when the need for manpower arises - job postings, campus visits, career fairs, etc.

A passive strategy on the other hand, is proactive. You look for prospective candidates even when there is no immediate need. You can passively hunt for candidates through

-	careers section on your company website
-	profile page on social networking sites
-	posting articles / blogs, and more...

By following both these methods to build your candidate pipeline, you can ensure that you get the right hires at the right time.

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Labor Day - Less Optimism for Workers

clipped from workforce.com American workers will have little to celebrate this Labor Day, according to a new report. The study, from the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, examines the recession-recovery cycle that started in 2001 and finds that for the first time on record, middle-class families are at or near the end of a recovery without ever having regained the ground they lost during the recession that preceded it. The study also said job growth has been slower and unemployment stints longer. “[Gross domestic product] and historically high productivity growth should have raised paychecks up and down the income ladder, but instead, the benefits of that growth have bypassed most of the people who made it possible,” the institute said in a statement.

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Pull Resumes from Google, Yahoo! and Live Search

clipped from www.egrabber.com Resumes are everywhere on the Internet and a simple search will return volumes of resumes. Manually sorting resumes and copy-pasting resume details into a database is a tedious and distracting task to busy recruiters. A successful recruiter is distinguished by her ability to consistently source new candidates, screen & process resume volumes quickly and connect with more candidates within a short time. Well, ResumeGrabber Pro can help you do just that. ResumeGrabber automatically extracts name, address, email, phone number and other candidate contact details and enters them, along with the resume, into your database. It can also screen resumes based on keywords (educational qualification, skill set, experience, location, etc). Now, you can save 90% of the time you would normally spend on resume extraction and screening. Download your 10-day free-trial version of ResumeGrabber today.

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CollegeRecruiter.com in Inc.5000 List

clipped from workforce.com The old college try is paying off for CollegeRecruiter.com. The online job board focused on college students and recent graduates has landed a spot on the Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. In its 2008 list released Wednesday, August 20, business publication Inc. said CollegeRecruiter.com was among its fastest-growing companies, finishing 1,403rd as revenue jumped from $660,424 in 2004 to $2.4 million last year. Recruiting industry analyst Peter Weddle says CollegeRecruiter.com has been at the forefront of experimenting with the social and viral aspects of the Internet. The Minneapolis-based firm has tapped blogging, podcasts and cell phone text messaging. “They are a good template for how job boards are evolving to be more a part of people’s lives on a daily basis,” Weddle says.

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An Interview with Chandra Bodapati - CEO, eGrabber

Source: RecruitersLounge

Chandra Bodapati, CEO, eGrabber, was interviewed by Jim Stroud, a leading Internet Searchologist and Proprietor of The Recruiters Lounge.

Excerpts of the interview can be found at The Recruiters Lounge

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Externally hired CEO's paid more than internally hired

clipped from workforce.com Chief executives hired externally made far more than their counterparts with at least two years’ tenure as CEO, according to an analysis conducted by executive compensation research firm Equilar. At small-cap firms, externally hired CEOs received a median pay package that was 79.8 percent higher than that of tenured CEOs. Large-cap companies paid external hires 51.1 percent more and midcap companies paid 10.2 percent more. By contrast, CEOs who were promoted from within at mid-cap companies received median pay packages worth 22.5 percent less than chief executives with at least two years’ tenure. Internally hired CEOs were paid 19.6 percent less at small-cap companies and 14.2 percent less at large-cap companies, the researchers said. The difference in compensation reflects the premium that companies must pay when they don’t have a solid pool of internal candidates ready to step in and run the company, said Equilar research manager Alexander Cwirko-Godycki.

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Connecticut-based Insurance Company eyes on Staffing Firms

clipped from workforce.com American Staffing Assurance Co. has entered a risk-sharing agreement with Hartford, Connecticut-based Sparta Insurance Co. and raised $4 million from private investors, enabling it to begin selling workers’ compensation and other insurance to staffing firms nationwide. American Staffing, based in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, is offering the insurance, underwritten by Sparta, through its newly licensed affiliate, American Staffing Assurance Co. of Washington, D.C. “Assuming all goes well, we will accept more investment dollars,” said president James Farber, one of 11 investors in the deal and founder of Executive Strategies Inc. in Grosse Pointe Park, which will serve as program administrator. Five years from now, American Staffing hopes to have raised $250 million to fund the acquisition and operation of a shell insurance company licensed in all states, he said. “[But] at this time, the greatest return on investment is generated by partnering with Sparta,” said Farber.

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Gas Price Crisis leading to revolution in US WorkPlace

clipped from www.workforce.com Soaring gas prices top economic and political agendas, so it’s natural that they also are a topic of conversation at the Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference & Exposition in Chicago. The buzz portends a fundamental change in the U.S. workplace, according to John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago outplacement firm. Challenger overheard some people talking about their pain at the pump while riding in an elevator at the show. The thrust of the chat: “How are we going to get around this gas situation?” Such worry is more than a transient concern. “The country is coming to terms with permanently higher gas prices,” Challenger says. Employees are hurting, and companies are responding by offering compressed work schedules, four-day weeks, telecommuting, gas cards and car-pooling.

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General Motors to Cut Jobs Bonuses, Dividends

clipped from workforce.com General Motors said Tuesday, July 15, that it will improve its finances through 2009 by laying off salaried workers, making more cuts in truck production, suspending its dividend and borrowing at least $2 billion as it rides out its worst U.S. sales in a decade. Those moves, combined with several other initiatives, are expected to improve GM's cash position by $15 billion through the end of 2009. The No. 1 U.S. automaker was compelled to cut costs and raise capital because of a deepening slump in U.S. auto sales. Through the first half of the year, GM’s total U.S. light vehicle sales are off 16.3 percent. GM said it will save $1.5 billion, or 20 percent of its cash costs, in 2009 through layoffs and changes in benefits to salaried employees and executives.

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HR software market keeps Growing this year

clipped from workforce.com Two new studies that speak to the state of the HR software market agree that spending on HR technology is likely to keep growing this year. The reports, from advisory firms Towers Perrin and AMR Research, indicate that a tumultuous, sluggish economy isn’t crimping sales of applications for such tasks as tracking basic employee data, recruiting new workers and managing compensation. Thomas Keebler, leader of Towers Perrin’s global HR function effectiveness practice, was surprised to see that just 15 percent of organizations surveyed by his firm expect to reduce spending this year on HR technology—a category that includes HR software expenses plus internal and external staffing costs. Last year, that figure was 18 percent.

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Dan Finnigan becomes the CEO of Jobvite

clipped from workforce.com Dan Finnigan, former head of Yahoo HotJobs’ online recruiting business and more recently entrepreneur-in-residence at a Silicon Valley venture firm, replaces Jobvite founder Jesper Schultz, who stepped into the role of chief product officer. “We have a lot of things we want to do on the product side, and we needed to get talent to build the company,” Shultz said. Finnigan “has experience in recruiting and has run big companies, which is why I’m excited to have him on board.”

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Taleo Begins Vurv Acquisiton By Job Cuts

clipped from humancapitalist.com On Friday, Taleo announced eliminating approximately 160 jobs at Vurv as part of the acquisition integration. Based on my most recent estimates, that is over 50% of Vurv’s total workforce.

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Monster Rolling Out New Job Sites

clipped from www.workforce.com Career site operator Monster Worldwide announced Monday, June 23, that it will launch co-branded recruitment Web sites with more than a dozen local newspapers, part of the company’s effort to push its brand in specific markets. The recruitment Web sites will include ventures with The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Union Leader in New Hampshire, Rutland Herald in Vermont, Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, The Blade in Ohio, San Francisco Examiner, Baltimore Examiner and Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Dia. At least four other co-branded sites are also in the works.

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Exec Searches Increase Despite Q1 Decline

clipped from workforce.com Demand for senior executive talent increased during the first quarter of 2008 despite a slight dip in the tumultuous financial sector, according to a newly released state-of-the-industry survey from the Association of Executive Search Consultants. The number of searches for financial services executives was flat compared with the preceding quarter, but down 7.2 percent from the first quarter of 2007. The technology sector was also down year over year, falling 5.1 percent. Financial services is typically the largest executive search sector, but it dropped to second during the quarter with a 22 percent market share, trailing the industrial sector’s 24 percent. Searches for manufacturing executives saw the biggest year-over-year gain, at 10.1 percent.

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Ford to lay off Salaried Employees

clipped from workforce.com Ford Motor Co. will lay off an undisclosed number of salaried employees this summer and hopes to complete the reductions by August 1, a spokesman said Wednesday, May 28. Earlier in the day, Detroit media reported that Ford will cut 10 percent to 12 percent of its salaried workforce, or more than 2,000 employees. “We’re not going to comment on internal discussions we’re having with our employees,” Ford spokesman Mark Truby said. “As soon as we finalize some of these details, we’re going to tell our employees as quickly as we can.” Because Ford wants the cuts made by August, the

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eGrabber to showcase Social Network Grabber at Fordyce Forum 2008.

Source: eGrabber.com

eGrabber™ will showcase its custom solution to import resumes from social networking sites into Excel at Fordyce Forum 2008, to be held in Las Vegas from June 4-6, at Booth #201.

The new Social Network Grabber for Excel is specifically designed to help search and placement professionals who prospect for potential candidates on social and professional networking sites. With Social Network Grabber for Excel, recruiters can quickly import profiles from networking sites into an Excel database. Manually extracting resume details from these sites is a tedious and distracting task for busy recruiting professionals. Instead, recruiters can now do a search for matching profiles on the network and with a single click, import all of them into Excel. eGrabber's solution will automatically open each individual profile, copy all relevant details and transfer it, along with the resume, into columns in an Excel spreadsheet.

eGrabber will also exhibit the new and updated versions of its passive candidate sourcing tool and resume import tool - ResumeFinder and ResumeGrabber Pro, respectively.

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Select Group merge with Randstad

clipped from www.personneltoday.com The new company will employ 34,000 people worldwide and generate estimated annual revenues of £14bn. In the UK, Select Group, the staffing arm of Vedior, will combine with Randstad. The new company will operate under the Randstad brand, and continue to support its franchise business under the Select Appointments, Parkhouse Recruitment and Select Hospitality brands. The newly-created Randstad UK will employ almost 1,000 people and secure jobs for about 20,000 temporary candidates per week and about 9,000 permanent positions every year. Diane Martyn, former chief executive of Select Group, will be leading the new Randstad UK. She said: "I am very proud to lead our new company, and am looking forward to building for the future and shaping the business as we compete for growth and position in the UK marketplace."

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Search Resumes on Blogs

Source: eGrabber Newsletters


Blogs are better sources for passive candidates. Blogs contain detailed posts about specific project tasks, candidate's thoughts on industry trends, documented experiences, photos, links to Technorati and LinkedIn profiles, and personal preferences too.

The Google search syntax to display relevant profiles from Blogger.com is

site:blogger.com (inurl:profile | intitle:profile) keywords

The search string to display resumes from WordPress is

site:wordpress.com (intitle:"about me" | inurl:resume -intitle:sample -intitle:write -intitle:how -intitle:writing) keywords

Use these search strings, by filling keywords of your choice, and gain access to new candidate leads.

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Search Resumes on Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

When someone signs up with an ISP, they often get some free disk space. Users tend to place personal information in this space, including resumes as well. The Google search syntax to display resumes from an ISP is

site:site-name (resume | homepage) keyword

To search for resumes of software project management professionals from AT&T (an ISP):

site:home.att.net (resume | homepage) software project manager

You can also use this simple technique to search local and regional ISPs that will have resumes in a specific geographic area.

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Experts say Excellerate HRO would now be a competitor for HR Outsourcing Providers

clipped from workforce.com Hewlett-Packard has announced that it is acquiring EDS, a move that may mean good news for ExcellerateHRO. On Tuesday, May 13, HP and EDS announced they had signed an agreement for HP to acquire the Plano,Texas-based technology company for $13.9 billion, or $25 per share. Industry observers say that if the merger goes through it would provide a swath of new resources and potential clients for ExcellerateHRO, the jointly owned HR outsourcing business shared by EDS and Towers Perrin. ExcellerateHRO was formed in 2005, but hasn’t amassed many deals in the past three years—causing many to wonder about the fate of the company. But now that HP is buying EDS, the company could revamp ExcellerateHRO into an HR outsourcing provider that would be competitive with the top players in the market, experts say.

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eGrabber announces new features to eGrabber ResumeFinder

Source: eGrabber Press Release

eGrabber Inc., a leading Silicon Valley-based provider of sales lead and resume data capture and processing solutions, today announced new features to its search automation tool - eGrabber ResumeFinder. Recruiting professionals can now leverage the enhanced capabilities of the new ResumeFinder to find resumes from the databases of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, AltaVista and AlltheWeb.

eGrabber ResumeFinder is specifically designed to assist HR professionals who use search engines to locate resumes on the Internet. ResumeFinder uses expert search commands and techniques, encompassed in the product, to program search engines to quickly locate resumes from:

• Networking sites such as MySpace and LinkedIn
• Personal homepages from Internet Communities such as GeoCities, Angelfire, etc.
• Free resume sites including Craigslist, Free-For, Recruiters and others
• Largest ISP’s such as ATT, Earthlink, AOL and others
• Popular blog hosts such as blogspot.com and others

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The 10 Hardest Jobs To Fill

clipped from workforce.com Because of an aging workforce and a new generation of workers entering other professions, engineers, machinists and skilled trade workers are the three most difficult positions to recruit for, according to Manpower’s annual list of “The 10 Hardest Jobs to Fill.” Baby boomers are starting to retire, which means many workers with traditional blue-collar skills are leaving the workforce, says Melanie Holmes, vice president of corporate affairs for the Milwaukee-based staffing giant. The survey, released Tuesday, April 22, covered 42,500 employers from 32 countries. The retiring boomers are compounded by fewer young people entering these fields. Less than 10 percent of college students in America are getting engineering degrees, Holmes says. The 10 Hardest Jobs to Fill 1. Engineers 2. Machinists/machine operators 3. Skilled trades 4. Technicians 5. Sales representatives 6. Accounting and finance staff 7. Mechanics 8. Laborers 9. IT staff 10. Production operators

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eGrabber announces new features to ResumeGrabber Pro

Source: eGrabber Press Release

eGrabber updated the features of ResumeGrabber Pro to enable import of resumes from the search results of all major search engines including Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live. In addition to supporting search engines, ResumeGrabber can also import resumes from Job Boards, Outlook Email (attachments) and PC Folders. It auto-extracts name, address, email and phone number of candidates and enters it, along with the resume, into databases. The ResumeGrabber grid, in-built, allows recruiters to screen and shortlist resumes based on keywords. The product completely eliminates the pain of having to manually screen every resume and copy-paste contact information from each selected resume into your database.

Some of the other exciting features in the new release include:

* Additional data fields to enable capture of comprehensive information on candidates
* Automatic calculation of the geographic distance between the recruiter's location and the candidate's
* Direct transfer of resumes into Big Biller, a leading online ATS

"The new ResumeGrabber Pro will be a shot in the arm for recruiters. The recent enhancements to the product will benefit its users immensely since recruiters can now import resumes from all major search engines", said Chandra Bodapati, CEO, eGrabber. "The array of new features incorporated in the product will not only improve recruiting productivity, but also create exciting user experiences"

The new ResumeGrabber Pro is available for immediate release and is priced at a annual subscription fee of only $495. To get more information on ResumeGrabber product, please visit http://www.egrabber.com/resumegrabberpro/

Information on all other eGrabber products including ResumeGrabber Professional, can be found at http://www.egrabber.com/

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