IT Recruitment strategies : 4 Niche Job Boards for Free Job Posting and Resume Search

IT recruitment has its own challanges as you need to fine highly qualified technical talent quickly. In order to be sucesful here you will need to deploy IT recruitment stategies that work. You just cannot depend on large job boards like Dice and Monster as thousands of recruiters and employers and sourcing and recruiting same talent base. So many times we spend precious time recruiting a top end talent from major job boards only to be...

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How to get your Jobs Listed on Job Aggegation websites

One of the most effective IT recruitment strategies is to get your jobs listed on Job Aggregation websites. They can provide excellent visibility for your jobs posts and thereby helping you to locate interested local talent that can make a difference to your recruiting efforts. What are the Job Aggregation Websites? The aggregation websites crawl job openings of leading companies, job boards and trusted feeds from leading recruitment...

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SmartRecruiters Free Applicant Tracking System for Recruitment

SmartRecruiters.Com Applicant tracking Systems form the back end system of most most successful recruiters and recruitment practices. Until reccently Applicant Tracking Systems systems (ATS) were used by large & medium size corporations and recruitment firms as most Applicant Tracking Systems requires monthly subscriptions and generaly out of reach for individual recruiters and small recruitment practices. Then...

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Rapportive, Smartr & Xobni 3 Excellent Email Tools for Recruiters

Email tools have opened up new possibilities on connecting with your Email Contacts on Social Media space. Rich Contact Tools like Xobni and Rapportive shows you information on your email contacts much beyond the abilities of traditional address book. These tools allow you to view Social Media Profiles of your email contacts right in your inbox. You can view profile information, companies they work for and you can easily...

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Recruiting Bar - An essential resume sourcing tool for Recruiters

There are millions of resumes and profiles on the Internet but searching and filtering this data requires advance knowledge of Boolean Logic. The recruiting bar makes sourcing easy with over 100 pre consrtructed boolean phrases that allow you to seouce resumes from leading search engines (Google, Bing etc) and social networking sites (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter etc). All you need to do is download and install the toolbar...

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Bullhorn Reach & Jobshouts 2 Excellent Free Social Media Recruitment Tools

Following up on my earlier article on Social Media Recruitment I did a quick research on social media recruitment tools on the internet. There are excellent social media recruitment tools out there but most of them requires paid subscriptions. Out of those, 2 services (Jobshouts & Bullhorn Reach) stood out as they are Free and Very Effective in reaching hidden talent and referrals on your social networks. Social...

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4 Free Job Posting Sites for Recruiters

Where do I post my Jobs? One of the biggest challenges any recruiter faces is how to reach out to qualified talent quickly. Everyday thousands of job applicants search the internet for their next employment opportunity. The most effective methods is to advertise jobs on the Internet. The Challenge: Most of the job boards offer paid job advertisement slots and expensive.  Remember most of the job seekers are not...

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Google Groups for Recruitment : 24 Top Google Groups to subscribe to for Contract IT Recruitment

Google Groups that caters to Corp to Corp Staffing are the quickest to find qualified H1B talent on the internet. All you need to do is subscribe to the Groups you want to use. After becoming member you can publish your hot IT requirements OR distribute consultant hot lists to a large number to resource vendors who are subscribers to these groups.There are over 100 active Google Groups for Corp to Corp recruitment but the list selected...

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50 Hot IT Skills on the Rise

Here are the 25 certifications and non-certified skills most likely to increase in value over the next six months, as determined by Foote Partners LLC. But President David Foote cautions, "There is simply no such thing as a reliable six-month IT labor forecast in these volatile market conditions."   Rank  IT Certifications  Non-certified IT Skills  1 SAS Certified Base Programmer SAP Basis components  2  Red Hat Certified Security Specialist RAD/extreme programming/agile...

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IT Industry Outlook for 2011 - Budgets and Salaries

Funding for IT budgets—including allocations for salary increases—will go up next year, but cost cutting is still a major concern. Business intelligence—despite its expense and effort—continues to be a No. 1 technology investment priority in 2010. IT workers, listen up: Management is budgeting for raises next year. These raises, however, come with an expectation for technology to be a strategic cost-cutting and simultaneous revenue-producing investment. Business intelligence—despite its expense and effort—continues to be the No. 1 technology...

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Social Media Recruitment: Advanced techniques to reach out to candidates on Twitter and beyond

Social Media Recruitment:  Advance techniques to reach out to candidates on Twitter and beyond As a recruiter how can you reach out to a potentially large candidate pool on social media space in a short span of time? The answer is in carefully crafted social media strategy. Link your social Media Accounts As a recruiter build your professional profile carefully on Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter. A strong presence in these 3 social media forums are an absolute must if you want to taste success in social Media Recruitment....

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2 simple web 2.0 mashups / tools to make your Blogger site more interactive

One of the dilemmas I had faced after publishing my blog on Blogger was how to integrate forms? A simple feedback or Contact Us form can go a long way in making your blog more user focused and interactive. I have found to simple methods to overcome this handicap. And yes you don’t need to be a coder to do this! 1.  Use formstack to build professional looking online forms: A simple but very effective solution is offered by www.formstack.com . Formstack allows you to design and build forms online and then allows you to embed...

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