SOURCERER'S APPRENTICE - August 2004 Issue

Volume 5, Issue 2
August 11, 2004

by Bret Hollander
NETRECRUITER

SOURCERER'S APPRENTICE
Cutting Edge Tools for the Internet Recruiter

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HELLO FROM YOUR EDITMASTER


On the move again. Four homes in the span of four years, and all
within a few miles of each other. In about ten more years, when I am
an empty nester, I am going to buy a Class A Motorhome, deck it out
with all things electronic and go city to city helping those
downtrodden firms who haven't figured out how to harness the
Internet
to solve their recruitment needs. And never again will I have to
unpack another box, paint a wall, mow the grass, or shovel snow.


Bret Hollander
Editmaster


TOP TEN KILLER APPS (in alphabetical order)

1. Advanced Maillist Verify - free 30 day trial
http://www.mailutilities.com/amv/?famv_425

2. BlackWidow - free 30 day full trial
http://softbytelabs.com/Frames.html

3. cBizOne - free 60 day trial
http://cbizsoft.com/

4. Copernic Agent Professional – Basic version is free
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/professional.html

5. Email Address Pro
http://www.a1soft.com/emext.htm

6. ProAutoResponder - 30 day unconditional money-back guarantee
http://proautoresponder.com/

7. ResumeGrabber- free 10 day trial
http://www.egrabber.com/resumegrabber/index.html

8. Resume infoFinder Platinum - free 3 day trial
http://www.infoGIST.com/cgi-bin/buildform.pl?id=6mkdR773

9. ResumePipe
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/resumepipe.html

10. WorldMerge
http://www.coloradosoft.com/download.htm


SITES


Easy E-mail Marketing from Microsoft – 30 day Free Trial
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/online/lb/detail.mspx

For most small businesses, permission-based e-mail marketing
campaigns are the most cost-effective way to reach new and existing
customers. List Builder is the e-mail marketing software of choice.
Use it to quickly and easily create professional-looking e-mail
newsletters, targeting different customer segments with personalized
messages. You can also:

> Use HTML templates to send professional e-mail newsletters and
announcements, or import and send your own HTML messages.
> Use personalization features to address your e-mail recipients by
name.
> Send targeted campaigns based on subscribers' demographic
information.
> Track your e-mail marketing campaigns in real time to see how many
recipients received, opened and clicked on links within your e-mail.


Yahoo Groups - FREE
http://groups.yahoo.com/

An easy way for groups of people to communicate on the Internet.

• Discuss sourcing tips, best practices, upcoming events, and more
• Share photos & files, plan events, send a newsletter
• Stay in touch with professional colleagues


SOFTWARE


Six Degrees 2.0 - free Lite Version
http://www.ralstontech.com/downloads/Clarity-2.0.5-Setup.exe

Six Degrees 2.0 is a desktop search engine designed to quickly find e-
mail messages, file attachments, and people.

• Works with your existing mail accounts and supports import
from most major mail clients
• Cross-platform for Windows® 2000/XP and Mac OS® X
• Search-and-click, browser-based interface includes advanced
search and full text search
• Free Lite Edition (with no ads of any kind)
• Dynamic QuickFilters provide instant mail filtering with no
setup
• Summary view automatically shows important items
• Private and secure—runs on your local machine


The Power of Many... With The Work of Few
http://proautoresponder.com/

It's a well-established fact that autoresponders are a necessary tool
for recruiting online, because they automate the follow-up contact
process. This means few (people) can do the work of many (people.)
OFFline, people do not establish rapport with each other instantly,
so why is it that online recruiters think it is different in this
faceless ONline medium we call the web? The simple fact is that
recruiting someone is a process, and online this process takes
longer ... unless you engage more of the senses people use.


A Merger Worth Investing In
http://www.coloradosoft.com/download.htm

Create personalized messages you send via standard Internet email,
fast and easy. You don't have to print letters, stuff and stamp
envelopes and wait several days for a response. Open your contact
databases directly with no tricky importing. If you store your
customer information in Microsoft Access or Excel, or if you already
have an email list in Eudora or Outlook, you can open that contact
file directly in WorldMerge.

Once you have a targeted email list, you can create email merge
templates. You write one message that will be sent to all the people
on your list, except now you can "drop" in database fields you wish
to be merged (ex: Dear [[first name]]).

When your contact receives your message, it will be individually
addressed with personal data merged into the message body. And you
won't have to reveal your list of email addresses in the CC:
field. No more "Dear Valued Customer" form letters!

The source of WorldMerge's email merge power is your contact
database. By opening your databases directly, WorldMerge gives you
the ability to:

Filter and/or manually select your contacts into highly targeted
email lists.


ODDS & ENDS


Here are three critical numbers if you work in the Washington DC area
to give out to those special clients of yours that have been
pestering, annoying, calling you in the wee morning hours, or are
just downright NASTY.

202-452-7468
410-347-1488
703-912-1725

and while you're in Florida vacationing, here are a few more:

305-241-0033 (Miami)
407-338-0036 (Orlando)
321-844-0033 (Melbourne)
561-986-0035 (West Palm)
954-287-0023 (Ft. Lauderdale)
Florida1: 321-485-0033
Florida2: 772-974-0041
Florida3: 786-743-0033

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