Volume 2, Issue 4
April 13, 2001

by Bret Hollander
NETRECRUITER

SOURCERER'S APPRENTICE
Cutting Edge Tools for the Internet Recruiter

Circulation: a big number between 100 and 1,000,000
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HELLO FROM YOUR EDITMASTER


Spring 2001 will go down as discovery season. Killer apps for the
HR/recruiting world have emerged in alien bodies that most of us have
never seen. With a little tweaking, they launch us so far to the
forefront that we need a telescope to see who is in second place. As
our world get increasingly larger and more virtual, the not-so-new
concept of data mining will overtake most conventional personal
information managers or applicant tracking systems and be replaced
with multiple cross-referenced databases of applicants tied to
skills, skills tied to companies, companies tied competitors,
companies tied to industries, etc. The true embodiment of information
overload will be exemplified in this new "Big Brother"
profile of the candidate and their industry.

On a less "geeky" note, I was extended the opportunity to
talk
incessantly about how to find a job using the Internet. The
venue last month was a small AM radio station in Leesburg, Virginia
and the program was naturally called, "Geeks on the Radio."
You can
hear both my half-hour and following week full-hour dialogue by
following these two links. However, you will need RealPlayer or some
other app to listen to this streaming audio.
March 10 Radio: http://www.pctalent.com/realaudio/bhollander03-10-
01.ram
March 17 Radio: http://www.pctalent.com/realaudio/bhollander03-17-
01.ram
Real Player: http://proforma.real.com/real/player/player.html?
src=010322realhome_1,010320rpchoice_h1&dc=327326325

If you haven't filled up your dance card for early June, then
consider a nice relaxing break in the California desert and join me
for my Sunday afternoon session on "Cutting Edge Tools for the
Internet Recruiter" at the 10th Annual Technical Recruiting &
Retention Conference at Marriott's Desert Springs Resort & Spa in
Palm Desert, California. The last time it was held here in 1999, I
remember it was 65 degrees in Los Angeles and 90++ degrees there. But
no one noticed unless they opted for an 18-hole golf excursion on the
property.
Conference Agenda:
http://www.itcareersrecruiting.com/conf/ctrrc/agenda/index.htm


Bret Hollander
NETRECRUITER


CUTTING EDGE TOOLS FOR THE INTERNET RECRUITER


Mail Harvester Advanced Edition
This KILLER APP includes powerful tools for anyone knowledgeable
about web pages and URLs to harvest gold mines of data from the web.
Here are some of its features:

· send email messages in HTML format...includes browser preview of
your message
· manually enter lists of proven, productive URLs to search
· use the URL generator to create thousands of incrementing URLs
that
harvest a site's entire database
· harvests documents from the web - collect entire databases of
resumes as fast as your connection will allow

See my review when used with Google's new Advanced Groups Search
to extract every resume found to your computer:
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/04/mhae.doc
Download Site: http://natlpark.net/harvester/dlformpro.asp


ReXpress
FINALLY, a visionary app that can automatically parse one or a
zillion resumes at the same time, plus a TON of other features such
as capturing the jobseeker's full name in the resume and resaving
the file by full name or any other attribute or subset of that can be
found on that resume into a rich text format (RTF) file. RTF is the
industry standard by which any word processor can read any
other's file so long as it's saved in this format.

Though this app is geared for the large corporation with a robust
applicant tracking system or the large resume/job portal like
monster.com, it is still a KILLER APP for anyone else who wants to
leverage or remove all that administrative downtime to process 1 or
1,000,000 resumes. And best of all, with little or no garbage
reintroduced from typos (unless they were already there)!

I wish there was time to showcase all the other marvelous bells and
whistles of this app. So if you're wowed by this tiny little
feature,
you can imagine the feeling you will have when you've seen the
other
built-in modules.
See my review: http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/04/rex.doc
ReXpress is now available to qualified beta testers for FREE:
http://www.recruiter.ca/ResumeMirror/betaform.htm
Download the ReXpress brochure (MS Word document) and get further
details about Option Packs:
http://www.recruiter.ca/ResumeMirror/ReXpress.doc


REVIEWS


CollegeRecruiter.com has quickly become one of the busiest sites that
specifically targets college students and recent graduates who are
seeking employment or continuing education opportunities. Late last
year this niche job/resume portal completely replaced its separate
job search and resume bank systems with an integrated state-of-the-
art solution. Always moving forward, it became the 8th highest
traffic job site overall with 681,000 unique users and 6,000,000 page
views per month. Then, in February 2001, it began cross-posting the
jobs in its database to over 1,500 relevant Internet sites and news-
groups.

A really great tool is the Resume Match Agent that scours their
database of 123,000+ resumes, all of which are 90 days old or newer
and opt-in, and then emails you the new matches each day. You'll get
one email that summarizes the matches. Should any be of interest,
you'll click on the candidate's name and be taken to their full
resume. http://www.collegerecruiter.com/
Sample Email Message in Response to a Job Posting:
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/04/cr-email.txt
Attached Resume Example for Job Posting:
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/04/Woessner_439092.txt


SITES


Cultivating All Those Interested Jobseekers
Obtain permission to send future email messages to a given user using
the FormSite.com "mass mailing" facility. Potential
jobseekers who
initially choose to receive your "mass mailings" can, at any
time,
opt-out or decide not to receive any of your additional emailings.
This free service provides the opt-out facility to your users. Every
mass mailing contains a link that the user can click on to elect
never to receive your email again. Once they click on the link, their
email address, and only their email address is removed from your
database so that they will not receive further emails.
http://www.formsite.com/

What 5-Digit Zipcode is Washington, DC Best Known For?
20001 20002 20003 20004 20005 20006 20007 20008 20009 20010 20011
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http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_ctystzip.html

25 Internet Services at Your Fingertips
Here you can search resources from all over the net like phone books,
email directories, and trip planners. But this isn't just another
list of links. The form for each resource is integrated into the
site, and Javascript copies the information from one blank to another
so you can use everything out there with a minimum of time and effort.
http://www.theultimates.com/

Do-It-Yourself Talk Radio
Yes, you too can fire up your microphone and assault the world with
your blather (if you use Windows and Internet Explorer). Lycos Talk
Radio works with a little piece of software downloaded from
Wonderhorse. http://talkradio.lycos.com/talkradio/lycos/home/home.asp


SOFTWARE


WebQL
Here is the epitomy of a data mining KILLER APP. The secret is
knowing what or where you want the information from. WebQL then takes
the lead using either an existing script or one designed by yourself
to quickly extract out all the information from that page that you
feel is pertinent to your research. The key word here is pertinent.
You don't have to grab everything that's there and take the
time to weed out what you don't want. The scripting language is
very intuitive with a little initial hand-holding. After a few
scripts, you'll be able to strut around and feel like your
company's
senior programmer or researcher. A more detailed review will be
presented next month under the Cutting Edge Tools for the Internet
Recruiter section.
Recent Reviews: http://register.caesius.com/demo/
WebQL Demo Edition is 100% FREE:
http://register.caesius.com/demo/index.php?pageID=oBZAJrK7oF0j2
WebQL Script Repository: http://www.webql.com/index.php?
pageID=i37sJ0yDcdNDk


TECHNIQUE OF THE MONTH


Permission Marketing

All jobseekers who apply to your jobs are SOLICITING you for
attention. All jobseekers who post on fee-based sites such as
Monster.com are SOLICITING you and any other company that is looking
for attention.

Therefore, if you SOLICIT back to the jobseekers YOU ARE NOT spamming
them. You are ENGAGING them, EDUCATING them, and LEARNING FROM them.

Anyone whom your recruiters, website, or advertising identifies as a
potentially employable jobseeker should be retained for a very long-
term relationship via a concept called Permission Marketing.

Permission Marketing or Opt-In Membership allows your company to
legally and regularly send information to the jobseeker related to
the topic for which they subscribed (opt-in). Other messages can be
added, so long as the initial information the candidate requested is
provided. This ongoing relationship provides an incredible sourcing
and referral network.

This newsletter is an example of permission marketing where you have
asked to receive this publication on exploring cutting edge tools for
the Internet recruiter. You may opt-out (unsubscribe) at any time.
You agree to receiving this newsletter based on what you were told
was to be included, or not included.

Many electronic newsletters, similar to this, further leverage their
distribution network, by adding advertising trailers, announcing new
events or opportunities.


ARTICLES


Effective Recruiting Begins At Home
http://www.careerxroads.com/news/pastarticles/p_1.html

Most Productive Sources Survey
In January 2001, 78 members of the Staffing Alliance of Virginia
Employers (Project SAVE) participated in a survey in which they were
asked to rate the most productive sources of hires for the year 2000.
A rating of 1 was deemed as the most productive recruiting source
they or their companies used, 2 as second most productive, up to a
maximum of 10 sources.
http://www.cluffassociates.com/cltitle4.html

The Essential Laws of Networking in the Connected Economy
http://www.schmoozemonger.com/content/schmoozemonger_laws_v1-1.PDF

Dipping into Another Labor Pool — E-Recruiting Sites for the
Military
Community.
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/04/dipping.html

Driving home recruitment
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/01/02/05/010205caedc.xml

How to Search a Resume Database
http://www.recruitersnetwork.com/news/march2001.htm

Writing An Effective Internet Job Posting
http://www.operationit.com/articles/effjobpostings.html

An Example of an Excellent Job Ad according to Dice.com
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/04/dicead.html

Working to retain your employees is the insider's version of
recruiting
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/02/19/010219opbriefing.xml

Applicant Interviewing - The Top 10 Red Flags
http://www.recruiterscafe.com/recruitment_networking_online.htm

Where to Look for a Job
http://www.peacecorps.gov/rpcv/hotline/hotline100100.pdf

Tools of the Trade / Get Into Training - news of the latest products
and services that help you run your business
April 2001 edition of Purple Squirrel Magazine (free subscription)
http://www.purplesquirrel.com/

Interviewing Tips
http://www.peacecorps.gov/rpcv/hotline/hotline081500.pdf

Show Me the Money
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2687755,00.html

All About Extreme Telecommuting
http://www.officeodyssey.com/


ODDS & ENDS


Are you a Nerd?
Nerd? Geek? Just another wannabe? Subject yourself to the rigors of
formal testing:
http://www.empathy.com/nerdwhat.html

Spyware covers the broad range of software which takes information
from your system without your knowledge or consent. There are two
major flavors of spyware, Advertiser spyware and Computer Monitoring
spyware. This free app is designed specifically to detect the most
advertiser spyware. Some examples of computer monitoring programs
are Spector, KeyKey, 007 STARR, Boss Everywhere and I-See-U. There
are over 100 computer monitoring programs not listed here, some of
them freeware! These spy programs are popular with suspicious
spouses and bosses, and you can use this app to protect your right to
privacy.
http://www.spycop.com/

Discover Anything About Anyone
Sometime ago I uncovered the lid on this scam "software"
called "The
Internet Spy and You 2000". It appears in so many different
flavors
boasting things such as, "Shows you how to get the facts on
anyone"
or the "SOFTWARE They Wanted BANNED In all 50 States!" If you
really
want your own "spy software," go here and download this
"incredible"
product for free. It's amazing what people will pay for hype.
http://www.pressroom.com/~cmo/idetect.exe

The Dotcom Lay-off Tax Return
For quick, if temporary, relief from tax-return blues, check out this
funny parody of Form 1040. It's a great takeoff on the demise of
dotcom euphoria. Any American who has filed the real tax McCoy is
likely to enjoy it. IT employees will love it.
http://www.thoughtpolice.com/bayboyz/1040.html

Give Up Recruiting If You Have any of These Phobias
Anthropophobia, Gerontophobia, Peladophobia, Sociophobia,
Teratophobia, Cyberphobia, Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia, Ponophobia
http://www.phobialist.com/


BOOKMARKS


A short tour of job hunting in the early 21st century
http://www.recruiting-online.com/jobhunting/

The Place on the Web for Lots of Newsletters in Lots of Languages
http://www.thenewslettersite.com/sourcerers.html

Bessemer Search Group - Recruiting Center - Internet Resources
http://www.bessemersearch.com/recruiting/resources.html

SHRM HR Links / Online Recruiting Services - Directories & Reviews
http://www.shrm.org/hrlinks/recruit.htm

Recruiting Resources
http://www.staffbots.com/links.html

ITtoolbox Portal for PeopleSoft offers forums for discussion, an
integrated directory, daily news, and many other services geared
towards PeopleSoft professionals and users of PeopleSoft products.
http://peoplesoft.ittoolbox.com/


FREEBIES


Are you interested in recruiting transitioning military? If so, you
can post jobs on this military-specific recruitment site, for free.
Just visit and click on "CREATE NEW ACCOUNT" under Employers. Once
you submit the form, you can post as many jobs as you like at no
charge.
http://www.CorporateGrayOnline.com/

There have been over 8000 fresh resume posted in the last 30 days at
UsJobBoard.com. As always, it is FREE to search these resumes. Job
Posting is also still completely FREE!
http://www.usjobboard.com/

JobsInLogistics.com is the world's largest career and recruiting
site for the Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation and Distribution
Management Professions. It is absolutely free to post Summer Intern
jobs.
http://www.jobsinlogistics.com

ResumeSendOut.com offers you FREE qualified resumes in the targeted
fields of your choice with no strings attached. Every resume is sent
directly to your email account with a cover letter and a candidate
profile.
http://www.resumesendout.com/

Resume Robot, the premier search engine for resumes, locates passive
candidates and delivers targeted resumes to the recruiter's desktop,
using the latest advances in internet search technology. Take a free
test drive at any time.
http://www.resumerobot.com/

No background-checking experience is needed to use this unique new
website to check out prospective employees, tenants, business
partners, or even dates and fiancés. And there is no cost
whatsoever to utilize the huge store of resources provided in the
300+ page site.
http://www.BackgroundCheckGateway.Com/

ourblock.com has developed a neighborhood network that enables you to
keep in touch with the people, businesses, issues and events that
really matter to you — those in your own neighborhood. Anyone in
the U.S. with phone service can get a free web site.
http://www.ourblock.com/app?page=cHomePage&Phone=240-281-
7728&submitphone=Go&SType=


EVENTS


Computerworld's 10th Annual Technical Recruiting & Retention
Conference
Marriott's Desert Springs Resort & Spa, Palm Desert, California, June
3-6, 2001
Join me at this highly celebrated annual conference on workforce
recruitment and retention. With over 700 corporate HR professionals
from Fortune 1000 companies, and hot topics such as "Cutting Edge
Tools for the Internet Recruiter", "The Cross Cultural
Implications
of Recruiting Globally on the Internet" and "Recruiting for Rapid
Growth," this is a high profile, can't-miss event! Catch up
on the latest tools and techniques for hiring IT talent, from Web-
based recruiting and automated screening, to optimizing college
relations and managing hiring managers. To celebrate their 10th
Anniversary they are offering a special 10% discount off of the
current published rates. To take advantage of this offer, you must
act by April 16, 2001. Current published rates begin at $850 per
person and include all networking events, meals, receptions and
conference materials.
Conference Website: http://www.itcareersrecruiting.com/conf/ctrrc/
Attendee Brochure (Adobe PDF format):
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/03/ctrrc.pdf
Testimonials: http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/03/kudos.doc

Internet Recruiting Strategies - TECHNIQUES
Monthly on the 4th Thursday throughout 2001, 8:30am-5:00pm, UVA
Northern VA Center, Falls Church, VA
The Workshop is a hands-on, full-day training program for only $199!
By attending this Attendees will receive a comprehensive training
manual, a powerful and working bookmark file for Internet recruiting,
and unlimited, ongoing support. Workshops are conveniently held at
the University of Virginia Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church,
just a few minutes away from Tysons Corner mall and across the street
from the West Falls Church metro station in the Washington DC area.
Students will each have their own state-of-the-art computer
workstation in a very modern training facility, accessing the
Internet at a lightning fast speed of T-1 (30 times faster than a 56K
modem).
http://netrecruiter.net/calendar.html


NEWSLETTERS


Tiburon Tips of the Week

Something I discovered after 35+ years in Boy Scouting is that good
volunteers remain the faces you see year after year. This is also
true of practitioners in our art of recruiting who are always out
there volunteering their wealth of knowledge. Once such luminary is
Carl Kutsmode, President of Tiburon Group. Carl is a nationally
recognized consultant, speaker, author and trainer on Internet
recruiting. Since founding Tiburon in late 1996, Carl has kept
Tiburon at the forefront of the ever-changing e-Recruiting market.

What more can you say about his weekly electronic newsletter that is
up to issue number 84 through the first week of April 2001. Its topic
is "Hiring Hourly and Clerical Employees Just Got Easier:
NowHiring.com."
Carl's Company Homepage: http://www.tiburongroup.com/
View the Tiburon Tips of the Week Archive:
http://tiburontips.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?
Act=view_archive&list_id=tiburontips
Subscribe to the Tiburon Tips of the Week:
http://tiburontips.listbot.com/


ADVERTISERS


These are all the firms that have asked me to showcase their services
or post an announcement. This is for your information only.

CollegeRecruiter.com is the highest traffic job site targeted to
students and recent graduates and the 8th most popular job site
overall with 681,000 unique users by December 2000.
http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

Simplify the process of posting jobs (and managing updates and
deletes) on your own site and virtually every major Internet
employment site, from one Website.
http://www.DataFrenzy.com

CareerXRoads 2001 is the #1 print directory to learn about job,
resume, and career management sites on the web. Each summer they
scour the web for new sites. They also re-review all of the existing
sites in our database. They looked at thousands of sites to get down
to what they consider the 500 best for CareerXRoads 2001. In
addition, more than 2,000 websites are identified and listed by
diversity, specialty, location, college, jobs (free and fee), resumes
(free and fee) and other criteria. Also included is a cross-reference
index of 2,000 job and resumes websites (with e-mail addresses from a
master list). The 2001 directory also includes articles by Dr. John
Sullivan, Bret Hollander, Dr. Wendall Williams, Yves Lermusiaux, and
more...
http://www.careerxroads.com/

Corporate Gray Online facilitates the matching process between the
candidates (transitioning military, veterans, military spouses) and
those companies seeking to hire them. Companies can search their
resume database using a variety of fields, including: Type of
Applicant (military rank), Branch of Service, Occupation Preference,
Years of Experience, Salary Range, Type of Employment (Full vs Part-
Time vs Contract), Security Clearance, Required Education Level,
Required Travel Level, Schools Attended, Previous Employers, and
keywords. They may also post jobs/buttons/banners, etc.
http://www.CorporateGrayOnline.com

VetJobs went live on 11/11/99 (Veterans Day) and is now 15 months
old. VetJobs is the first comprehensive international site to reach
the entire military market, which is comprised of over 40,000,000
people. Most focus on the 200,000 military personnel who transition
off active duty each year. VetJobs includes the 9.5 million Veterans
currently in the work force, their trailing spouses and work eligible
dependents. When you add in the Coast Guard, National Guard and
Merchant Marine, who are all nationalized in time of war, the total
market exceeds 40 million people!!
http://www.vetjobs.com

Our Resume Bank now contains over 100,000 IT/IS specific resumes.
These resumes are from candidates that have specifically asked us to
include their resume in our database. They are not spidered from the
Web. Additionally, for the 6,000 resumes we add each month,
Computerwork.com now offers Job Agents that do the matching for you.
Set up your job agents, and let our nightly program email you matches
that come in during the previous day.
http://www.computerwork.com/

Spectrum Apartment Search has the most experienced team of licensed
residential leasing professionals and they offer complete relocation
services. They maintain a comprehensive computerized database of
thousands of apartments, condos, lofts, and town houses, giving you
immediate access to a wide range of properties to call home.
http://www.apartmentsearch.com/

JustTechJobs.com is a career portal with 44 technology specific
jobsites. Each with their own individually operated resume database
to ensure higher quality (i.e. JustJavaJobs.com, JustOracleJobs.com).
Our clients average 1-4 more hires per month using our service.
http://www.justtechjobs.com/

Whether you're a veteran internet recruiter or just starting out with
online posting, you can increase your job's exposure without adding
time to your advertising process. Our exclusive job requisition
management tool is designed to help you reach those hard to find
candidates while eliminating the time spent researching available
resources and filling out multiple forms. We've made it simple by
creating one online form that filters your job to all the applicable
free regional, local and niche-specific sites from a network of more
than 1400 job boards and newsgroups.
http://www.aios.com/

The Womens Executive Network is the first web-enhanced recruiting,
retention and career development company that focuses on professional
women. We offer secure job search and career development services for
professionals at any stage in their career. Our Web-based, people
driven community provides job placement assistance, mentoring,
networking and career development services unlike any other company,
for women, on the Web.
http://www.thewen.com/

ZillionResumes, the world's foremost internet resume aggregator, uses
advanced robot technology to search the Internet 24 hours a day.
We've gathered resumes from over 62,000 different locations.
http://www.zillionresumes.com

The JobNext Career Network provides job search and free resume
services to both recruiters and job seekers, and they target mostly
on university fresh graduates.
http://www.jobnext.com

The Frugal Recruiter is a resource guide containing over 800 free job
posting and/or resume searching sites that are divided into more than
30 categories with each category being further divided by region.
Since it's updated monthly to reflect changes in the sites
as well as add new ones, the information is always current.
http://www.frugalrecruiter.com

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