Volume 2, Issue 12
December 28, 2001

by Bret Hollander
NETRECRUITER

SOURCERER'S APPRENTICE
Cutting Edge Tools for the Internet Recruiter

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HELLO FROM YOUR EDITMASTER


Ask anyone what they will remember most from 2001. Depending on your
location, religious preference, occupation, or age, the answer may
not be as obvious as for people living in the US.

2001 ushered in a new national leadership, followed by a recession
paralleling one occurring a decade earlier, major layoffs and dot.com
failures, and a lot of us recruiters and HR professionals sitting on
fences wondering when the economy would turn.

Though Christmas sales suffered at the department stores, they soared
via online shopping. In a regular year, I could string out my Holiday
Greeting cards from fellow clients and friends across our living
room. This year the format was all electronic.

The point, if any is to be drawn, is that many of us are retreating
to the perceived safety of our home and utilizing the Internet for
more of our essential needs. This is great news for those of us
already entrenched in this venue and should be a wake-up call for all
others.

Remember, that whenever there is a bear prowling, there is also a
charging bull.


Bret Hollander
NETRECRUITER


SITES


Google comes in two flavors now. There's the usual, excellent
text-based retrieval whiz and, now, one that concentrates on images,
150 million of them. Naughty and nice, they are all here. And the
ever-popular "I'm feeling lucky" option is available,
too. The image search is a beta facility with a mature content filter
that you can toggle on and off. Google uses an inherently fuzzy
retrieval system that works by matching search terms to the titles of
image files or to adjacent text. In other words, it doesn't really
matter what the image is about - it's the label that counts. You
can
dig into the gory details yourself with the FAQ. Instead of lines of
textual search output, you get pages of thumbnail images. When you
click on a thumbnail, Google isolates the picture from its original
site so you can look at it without confusing, lurid distraction,
although, if you wish, you can also click on down into the site it
came from.
http://images.google.com/

WiseNut also feels like Google, in its stripped-down, no-frills
interface and its quick-draw results return. The list of results
groups pages from the same site under one result, which is useful
when webmasters have been particularly outstanding in meta-tagging
all their site's pages. WiseNut has introduced an organization
system called WiseGuide, a sort of index that groups pages into
categories and subcategories. It might reconsider the layout and
design of the WiseGuide section, though. Our reviewer completely
ignored the black of the master categories, not realizing that the
results in the gray bar were subcategories. Of course, that might be
the point - to get you to your actual results more swiftly.
http://www.wisenut.com/

AltaVista is either losing its audience because its listings are not
up to date, or it's failing to keep up because its lack of
visitors means it hasn't enough revenue to do so. CNet points out
that the company last fully updated its index last July. The story
details the problem and notes that Google has been gaining search
engine market share in almost exact inverse proportion to
AltaVista's decline. AltaVista used to be the most popular search
engine and was widely regarded as the most useful in its day, but
once it went all portalish, it lost a lot of interest.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7630946.html

Right now, it lags Lycos, but Picsearch can contend in the picture
search engine wars, especially if it focuses on its unique aspects.
Advanced search lets the user choose animated or static images, black
and white or color, or picture size. http://www.picsearch.com/
Example when searching for CCIE images:
http://cco.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/ccie_present.ht
ml


SOFTWARE


Advanced Newsgroup Email Extractor 2.4 is a full-featured shareware
email extractor, which is fast, accurate and allows you to extract e-
mail addresses from any newsgroup. The email lists can be exported to
CSV format (compatible with many mailing list software). Features
include the ability to work with up to 1000000 in one list; Extract e-
mails from specified server (all news servers) by NNTP protocol. You
can get list of all newsgroups from server and select many (up to
50000 groups) by one click for extract emails "as-quick-as-possible".
Extaction with First/Last name and email. ANEE calculates extraction
speed and show you progress bar with statistic and states.
http://www.softdepia.com/ie/download.asp?id=7

NewsBin is a multithreaded application that scans user-selected
Usenet newsgroups for binary attachments. Binaries are downloaded and
decoded automatically, allowing for simultaneous downloads that make
full use of your available bandwidth. NewsBin has a work-queue window
that shows the full subject fields of files to be downloaded. It
includes a built-in local Web server that allows you to use your
browser to view images downloaded by NewsBin, filtering capabilities
to bypass spam, HTML, cross-posted binaries, and file-name filters.
http://www.newsbin.com/downloads.htm
NewsBin User Forum: http://www.djii.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi

WorldCast is a bulk e-mail sender and e-mail address validator. It
detects invalid addresses that exist on e-mail listings, reports
errors including bad e-mail addresses and time-out operations, and
creates detailed logs of the e-mail delivery process. WorldCast also
features automatic subscription/unsubscription of e-mail addresses, a
syntax-oriented editor, mail-merge capabilities, HTML editing and
preview support, attachments, spelling checker, thesaurus, crash
recovery, and much more. And by using direct multi-threaded delivery,
it ensures 100 percent usage of your connection capabilities. By the
way, for personal use, this is FREEWARE.
http://www.fairlogic.com/

E-2000 is a human resource tool for employee and company information
cataloging. E-2000 helps you manage your employees, and offers a wide
variety of customizable reports. You can track an employee's entire
history, including job performance and warnings. In addition, you can
track your company's compliance with EEO standards.
http://www.softwaretech.com/

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 allows you to view, navigate, browse, and
print portable document format (PDF) files that have been created by
Adobe Acrobat. It also enables you to fill in visually rich,
interactive PDF forms. An ActiveX control for Internet Explorer and a
plug-in for Netscape Navigator are included and automatically
installed in the browser of your choice. Some of the new features
include: the ability to save copies of files downloaded in Web
browsers; drag-and-drop toolbar icons, dynamic thumbnails generation,
and other usability improvements.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html


TECHNIQUE OF THE MONTH


Boolean Search Tutorial for Technical Recruiters
This tutorial on Boolean search strategies enables technical
recruiters to more effectively mine resume databases, whether they be
Monster, Headhunter, or AltaVista. Once you harness the power of
Boolean searches, you'll find that you will be able to drill down
through a resume database and find the right candidate with
incredible speed and accuracy!
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/12/boolsrch.html


ARTICLES


Effective Recruiting Begins at Home
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/12/effrec.html

Why Email Marketing? Five Great Reasons
http://www.roving.com/marketing/newsletters/hints-tips/volume2-
issue4.html

How Do I Find A Job When The Economy Sucks!!
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2001/12/jobsucks.html


ODDS & ENDS


Headquartered in Paris, Maporama has created the next generation of
online mapping services. Its cartographic databases contain 635,000
world cities, including comprehensive street-level maps for locations
in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. Whereas the US and
Canada were pretty much your only viable map-questing option in the
past, now you have the ability to plan a trip seemingly anywhere.
City maps available from Maporama detail the living space of a
billion people inhabiting countries throughout the world. The
possibilities boggle the imagination, almost.
http://maporama.com/

PayPal processes 200,000 online payment transactions worth $10
million per day. What is the secret of its success? One reason,
according to this CommerceNet analysis, is "obsessive customer
orientation". PayPal devotes two-thirds of its organization to
customer support, and item one in the PayPal rulebook is "focus
on the customer". Developing an effective structure to combat
online fraud has also fortified the company's position - PayPal
sellers experience a fraud rate of only 0.5%, versus a rate of 2.6%
for all Internet transactions. Other key elements include a Net-
centric approach, an early viral marketing model, stringent internal
cost control, and a "start small, get feedback, add
functionality"
strategy. CommerceNet's excellent business analysis tells how
PayPal
seems to have done everything right.
http://www.commerce.net/research/ebusiness-
strategies/2k1/2k1_14_r.html

Columnist Robert X. Cringely has a nice piece about how you can set
up your own DSL connection between two locations. He basically
explains that you need to convince your phone company to sell you
what's known as a "dry pair" of copper wires between the
two locations. Most phone companies charge about $15-$45 per month
for this. Pop on a couple of cheap DSL modems on each end and you
basically have a private T1 line at considerably less than the $500
typically charged by the phone company. He also goes on to discuss
some neat hardware from Linksys which makes 802.11b wireless networks
more secure and finishes off with some "first get a million
dollars..." type advice on how to easily get into the DSL
business.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html

CREATIVEmoonlighter.com is a complete, one-stop resource for
companies needing temporary or part-time creative expertise and
moonlighters wanting to make an extra income and expand their client
base.
http://www.creativemoonlighter.com/

Google has assembled a search service for over 1,500 mail-order
catalogues. The service is still in the testing stage, and currently
is free for catalogue retailers. It's an awesome collection of
catalogues, ranging from 1-800-Flowers to Zany Brainy, covering just
about anything which can be remotely delivered. A random sample
includes biotech gear, exotic car accessories, socially aware tours
of Europe, king/queen-size clothing, waterfowl supply ("Hey, Frank,
we're low on grebes."), beauty products for older women, and -
brimming with shocking possibilities - Martha by Mail. If you're the
type, you'll have lots of fun browsing here.
http://catalogs.google.com/


BOOKMARKS

2001 Webby Award Nominees
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html


FREEBIES


Print the names, and other information, of all folders and files on
your computer.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.html

Top Freeware Downloads
http://www.webattack.com/fwtop100.shtml
http://www.top100freewaresites.com/
http://www.freewareweb.com/topdownloads.html
http://www.freewarepro.com/


EVENTS


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By attending this attendees will receive a comprehensive training
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recruiting. Workshops are conveniently held at your place of
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