Volume 1, Issue 16
July 5, 2000

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


Each month I say the next issue is going to be smaller and then I find
a bevy of new and interesting topics and tools. Actually, with the
wife and kids away on vacation in Korea, I've had much more
uninterrupted time to conduct research for this newsletter. This is
probably one of the longest, but I sincerely hope you read all the
articles and try out all the sites. I realize it will probably consume
about twenty hours or more of your time, but with these hazy, hot
Summer days upon us, it will be great to be in front of your computer
in air-conditioned bliss.

We made the move to our new home on June 12th and now I am busily
contracting with a landscaper, painter, plumber, handyman, carper
installer, electrician, etc. to literally do a complete makeover. I
even ventured to Home Depot and Lowes to arm myself with a power
drill, cross-cutting saw, chainsaw, and other devices to officially
don myself as a future handyperson.

In next month's issue, I will focus on College Recruiting. Two new and
interesting surveys revealed that only 4% of all college hires were
attributed to on campus interviewing. Over 26% of hires came from
networking and relationship building over the Internet. The other
survey on IT worker availability determined that there would be over
1.6MM new IT jobs created in the US in the year 2000. Unfortunately,
843,328 will go unfilled. The implication is that we need to
re-evaluate our position on using college graduates with little
industry experience, because there are few alternatives available.

Finally, many of you responded to three survey questions I posted in
early June via the eGroups list. Unfortunately, I was not aware that I
could not control the timing and delivery of each question. Hence,
some subscribers elected to unsubscribe thinking that this was an
uninvited intrusion. Anyway, thanks to those who answered and here are
the results of the Internet Survey.

1. What is the best fee-based, high-tech job board that offers both
resume access and job posting?

Monster.com 53.64%
Dice.com 13.64%
HotJobs.com 7.27%
InfoWorksUSA.com 6.36%
ComputerJobs.com 5.45%
Headhunter.net 3.64%
Net-Temps.com 1.82%
JobOptions.com 1.82%

2. Which is the best online search engine (not meta-search) for
identifying candidates or resumes?

AltaVista.com 60.38%
NorthernLight.com 22.64%
HotBot.com 7.55%

3. What is your cost per permanent (non-contract) hire when using the
Internet as your primary sourcing tool. In the cost, factor all
administrative and overhead charges associated with this venue?

$1000-$1999 29.03%
$2000-$2999 16.13%
$500-$999 16.13%
$250-$499 16.13%


Bret Hollander
NETRECRUITER


FEATURED TOOL OF THE MONTH


All Your Mail, All in One Place
The ePrompter Web site performs a very useful chore for Windows users.
(Sorry, only Windows users.) It automatically checks up to eight AOL,
Hotmail, Yahoo, and POP3 e-mail accounts. Since many e-mail services
won't forward mail to a mailbox of your choice, your previous option
was usually to check your inboxes one after another. The interface is
a screensaver that tells you at a glance how many unread messages are
held in each account. When the screensaver isn't up, a rotating tray
icon serves the same function. You can view the password-protected
subjects of your messages or the entire messages. Autodial capability
checks messages even when you're offline.
http://www.ePrompter.com/


SITES


Power Web Searching
This is an incredibly informative site that also offers free online
tutorials. The Teaching Library was created in order to meet the
challenge of rapidly changing information resources and research
tools. Check out the table on features of selected meta-search
engines.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/NetWorkshops.html

Search Engine Showdown
This site compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the
searcher's perspective. Developed originally as a way to keep track of
the search engines and share that information, the site has grown to
include: search engine features chart, detailed search engine reviews,
an online newsletter, statistical analysis, and search strategies.
http://www.notess.com/search/

Email Wizardry
The Internet is a great place to perform many business and personal
tasks. But, oftentimes an individual is limited in the tools one needs
to perform those tasks. The information in this article will show how
Internet users, armed only with a simple email account, can do such
things as browse and search the Web, get files via FTP, finger an
address, read and post articles in newsgroups, use Archie to find
files, and send anonymous email.
http://www.webnovice.com/index2.html

Excite's New Precision Search
http://www.excite.com/search/advanced/

Inference Find
This meta-searcher sends your query to six search engines, and
displays a clustered list of returned documents. Clustering could be
useful if a query returns lots of hits and you want some help in
organizing the information. The advantage of clustering is offset in
part by the absence of any abstracts or content summaries. According
to the site's rather limited documentation, Inference Find passes on
your query as you enter it without attempting to do any translation to
match the query formats of the engines that it uses.
http://www.infind.com/

The Blue Window
Ran across this fascinating search engine by accident. Though it gives
you only three conditions of search: AND, OR, or a phrase, this is
what the formula of: "url:resume vb developer 703 VA" turned up when
choosing ALL the words.
http://search.bluewindow.ch/search?pg=q&lang=en&what=web&q=url%3Aresum
e+vb+developer+703+VA&engine=World&advmeth=2&kl=en

More Weird Uses for Search Engines
The Search Rocket - http://www.kanoodle.com/
MetaCrawler MetaSpy - http://www.metaspy.com/
Magellan Search Voyeur - http://voyeur.mckinley.com/cgi-bin/voyeur.cgi
Ask Jeeves Peek Through The Keyhole -
http://www.askjeeves.com/docs/peek/
SavvySearch SavvySnoop - http://savvy.search.com/snoop

CleverSearch Meta-Meta Search
CleverSearch sends your query to the major Meta Search Engines in
parallel. CleverSearch improves your searches with the aid of
CleverJava keyword generator. This is a new generation "meta-meta"
search tool. This search engine searches the major meta search engines
and returns only the most relevant results.
http://cleversearch.hypermart.net/meta-metasearch.pl

Constructing and refining searches in Alta Vista Advanced Search
Alta Vista is a very large database (275 million) with powerful
features in its Advanced Search for refining searches and extracting
the documents you want. It offers two levels of searching: Simple and
Advanced. The Simple Search does not offer Boolean logic or Sorting
(by which you control Results Ranking), two of the finest features
available in any of the search tools currently in existence.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/AltaVista.html

NetCraft
Find a lot of sites based on their own name and then, as an added
commodity, you also discover immediately what are they running on
http://www.netcraft.com/

Yahoo's Member Directory
Here's a fun tool, using a free homepage provider. Just plug in a
keyword or skillset and then look at all the profiles that correspond
to your search. In most cases, the individual provides not only a home
of record, but their email address as well. The only downside is that
many of the profiles are old and the search works best with just one
word, preferably something that is unique.
http://members.yahoo.com/

Switchboard's People Search
One of the best people locators. After you've lassoed a particular
candidate in Yahoo, go to this site and put in their last name, first
initial, and state. In most cases, you'll get back what you're looking
for, the person's full name, home address, and home phone number.
http://www.switchboard.com/

PeopleSearch 101 - A tutorial on Online Searches
Are you looking for innovative online resources for finding people
using the Internet?
http://209.67.4.116/cgi-bin/101/101.cgi
Also Skiptracing 101
http://209.67.4.116/bountyhunt/inquiry.shtml

Picture Yourself Here
Free or inexpensive, Web apps are utilities or programs on distant
servers that run in your browser. Apps.com has a nice introductory
help applet you can't miss when you hit the home page of this large,
excellent portal. Call this site a bookmark service, an organizer, a
consolidator - you're bound to find something pretty quickly that
you'll want to use over and over, especially if you've already used
some of the popular apps linked to these directory pages. The
categories will entice you to register so that you can build your own
collection for access wherever you can get on the Web. I especially
like the topics under HR/Recruiting; not so much for who they are, but
how to get posted there for free.
http://www.apps.com:80/category.asp?catid=279

Why email Only?
This site is a work in progress trying to provide everything by email
as a comprehensive reference tool showing the email only user how to
make the most of the Internet.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/

Internet Privacy and Anonymity
PrivacyX empowers you to take control of your online privacy. Your
email messages are completely private and secure.
https://www.privacyx.com/


SOFTWARE


Generate Web Traffic
Search Spy is a massive, constantly updated database of well over
3,000,000 words and phrases captured directly from the web's leading
search engines.
http://www.searchspy.com/getspy.htm


TRAINING SCHEDULE


Internet Recruiting Strategies - TECHNIQUES
Develop a focused Internet recruiting strategy for only $199!
Participate in an all-day, hands-on workshop on Thursday, July 27 or
August 24 or 31 in Falls Church, Virginia. Work at a comfortable pace
and conduct actual Internet recruiting searches on a live workstation
dedicated to you. Be one of only 20 participants per workshop, using
state-of-the-art computer systems with high-speed T1 Internet access.
(Participants who register and prepay at least two weeks in advance of
class date also receive a $20 cash rebate at class to cover parking,
breakfast and lunch) Onsite Corporate training is also available.
http://netrecruiter.net/training.html


EVENTS


NetExpo Washington
This e-Business Expo and conference will be held at the Washington
Convention Center at 900 9th St., NW, in Hall D, on Thursday, August
16-17, 2000. My contribution is a 45-minute topic starting at 1pm on
Thursday, August 16 will be "Effective Recruiting Begins At Home".
Here is the intro: By applying some best practice models you can
effectively recruit the best hi-tech professionals for a fraction of
the cost of using conventional advertising methods. Learn how to
maximize on an in-house referral program and tap applicants who have
previously inquired or applied to your firm. Learn about effective
tools for building productive relationships with both your employees
and your applicants.
http://www.netexpowashington.com


SEARCH TIP OF THE MONTH


Accessing FTP Via Email
You can use your email account to access anonymous ftp servers, such
as Microsoft's FTP site, to download files. Downloading this way can
put the files you want right in your email inbox.
http://netrecruiter.net/sa/2000/jul/ftpemail.txt


ARTICLES


A Neophyte's Guide to Effective E-Mail
http://www.webnovice.com/email.htm

Online and Unidentifiable?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21689-2000Jun29.html

Join A Mailing List
http://www.webnovice.com/mailing_lists.htm

Start Your Own Newsgroup
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Keyword your way to Success
http://100promotiontips.com/keywords.htm

More Visas for Techies?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21713-2000Jun29.html

Exploring Usenet Newsgroups
http://www.webnovice.com/newsgrps.htm

A Guide to Successful (and safe!) Newsgroup Marketing
http://www.webmistressatwork.com/newsgroups.html

Dealing With Spam
http://specials.about.com/channels/internet/netlets/zxfnl_spam_p3.htm

Control Spam
http://www.webnovice.com/spam.htm

Getting listed in Yahoo!
http://100promotiontips.com/yahoo.htm

Search Term Suggestion List
http://www.goto.com/d/about/advertisers/othertools.jhtml

Advanced Web Searching Techniques
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/77advanc.htm

Spending Money on TV Ads - No Customers, but Maybe Investors
A boatload of dotcoms spent millions of dollars to buy advertising
time on this year's Superbowl TV broadcast. The results? Well, not
much in the way of new users. In fact, from a user acquisition
standpoint, the proposition was a spectacular and expensive failure.
On the other hand, according to this CNet story, a number of Net
companies scored venture funding simply by raising their visibility
with the spots. Salute the new Net business model: raise $3 million in
seed capital; blow it all on one Superbowl commercial that attracts
the interest of venture capitalists; raise more capital; and wash,
rinse, repeat, until you go bankrupt. SourceTV lists all this year's
Superbowl commercials, while Superbowl-Ads.com has more media coverage
of the topic then anyone can possibly digest.
Story: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2077741.html
SourceTV: http://www.sourcetv.com/superbowl2000.html
Superbowl-Ads.com: http://www.superbowl-ads.com/


ODDS & ENDS


Modify a Web Page Using Another Web Page
You're a Webmaster and you've just found a typo on your home page.
However, you're at a trade show and your tools and files are 2500
miles away. No problem. Using any computer with Web access (like the
one where you saw the typo), log onto this site. Then, just use this
site to fix your page. Omniupdate works better for Windows users (more
tools), but is useful when run on a Mac.
http://www.omniupdate.com/

Resume Writing Guide
http://www.umt.edu/career/resume.html

Who.Has.It?
Three Swedes have a URL redirection service with a domain name easy to
remember: has.it. Neat. There are some conditions, but free is free.
That's easy to remember. By the way, rules.it, knows.it, shows.it, and
does.it are also up for grabs.
http://www.has.it/

Executive Compensation in Silicon Valley
Nothing like a bit of financial voyeurism. SiliconValley.com studied
various public documents and came up with a list of who made what in
1999, all the way from Apple's Steve Jobs ($1 in salary) to Lewis
Platt, CEO of Hewlett-Packard ($1,000,000 in salary, a $910,000 bonus,
and tons of options). You won't find mention of Steve's new jet,
though, a reward from a grateful Board of Directors. An eyeball
estimate indicates that an average executive, VP level and above, gets
a salary in the mid-$200,000 range, usually with generous options.
Other companies go the big options route. Yahoo execs generally earn
less than $200,000 in salary, but take home options worth millions of
dollars. Now you'll know what to ask for when they offer you the
chairmanship.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/companies/bossmakes/charts/chart99
.htm

How to Occupy a Child's Mind When Working from Home
Featuring a Java reading applet, Classic Bookshelf presents texts that
you can customize by font size and color to suit your tastes. The site
offers readers access to a large collection of public domain e-texts.
Authors include Dickens, Twain, and Wilde, among others - use the Site
Map link at the top to get a complete list.
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/Reader/Search.htm

The Word Spy
This web site and its associated mailing list are devoted to recently
coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance,
and older words that are now being used in new ways.
http://www.logophilia.com/WordSpy/


BOOKMARKS


College E-Mail Addresses
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/college.html

University Pages
http://isl-garnet.uah.edu/Universities/universitiestx.html

Mailing List Manager Commands
http://lawwww.cwru.edu/cwrulaw/faculty/milles/mailser.html

Meta-List Mailing List Network
http://www.meta-list.net/

Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists
http://paml.net/

Finding Information on the Internet
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Where to find and keep what's cool on the web
http://www.hotlinks.com/home.html


FREEBIES


Resume On-Line
http://www.resume-online.com/rcol.htm

Free Email Account
http://www.888.nu/

AOL Hometown - Resumes
http://hometown.aol.com/cat.adp?cid=19155&l=english

Members AOL.com IT Resumes
http://search.aol.com/cat.adp?id=185646

Lycos Resume Pages Gallery
http://pagebuilder.lycos.com/resume/gallery/

Baan Job Postings/Resumes
http://www.baanfans.com/baanfans/forum/jobs/

Seattle Resumes
http://cgi.soba.net/resumes.html

CareerLab - 200 FREE Cover Letters for Job Hunters
http://www.careerlab.com/letters/


ADVERTISERS


Invariably, when a subscription base reaches a certain level, many
vendors arrive at your doorstep offering their wares. At first, I
attempted to evaluate all these. But eventually it became almost a
full-time effort to test or pilot and then draft up the results.
Hence, now you will see a list of many new players or folks who have
enhanced their existing product or service and have asked for some
additional exposure. These are all the firms that asked me to showcase
their wares since the beginning of April. This is for your information
only. I do not support or represent any of these firms.

FatSplash - outsource the technical skills assessment of potential
candidates to objective experts using a live, interactive interview.
Avoid committing internal resources to the processes of scheduling and
conducting Face-to-Face interviews until after the candidate is found
to be technically qualified. Minimize the Opportunity Cost and
Aggravation Factor of utilizing existing IT staff for assessment
process. This is accomplished by On-Line RecruitAgents, possessing the
IT skills required for a given vacancy, who test & assess the
candidates' technical aptitude through a focused interactive Q&A
session with live examples, using web-based live text chat technology
to conveniently reach candidates. As an Introductory Offer to the
first 100 firms to sign up, you will receive three free assessments
that can be used with a 14-day period. Should you elect and/or find
the service beneficial, you will receive an additional two free
assessments with purchase of minimum 25 bundle subscription (5%
discount applies).
http://www.fatsplash.com

Life insurance company that offers free online quotes for auto,
health, homeowners, whole and term life insurance. Also provides a
list of insurance resources and glossary terms.
http://www.lifeinsurancewiz.com/

As the #1 finance-dedicated job site on the net, jobsinthemoney is the
best source for experienced finance and accounting professionals.
We have more finance professional users and resumes than any other job
site targeting this niche.
http://www.jobsinthemoney.com

The Recruiters Cafe is a networking and split placement site for
third-party recruiters and corporate hiring managers.
http://www.recruiterscafe.com/

Winning Strategies for College & University Recruiting - the July
17-20 conference will feature case-studies and practical solutions
from over 50
organizations who are paving the way in new techniques for recruiting
the best and brightest college graduates.
http://www.recruitingoncampus.com/

CareerCity.com is a cutting edge job-matching vehicle on the Internet.
Companies advertise positions on its web site. Using the Internet's
filtering process, job-seekers search out positions in their field,
area of expertise and desired location. Because of the amount and the
detail of information included in job postings, applicants find this
on-line method far preferable to traditional methods. In addition,
CareerCity.com has an extensive bank of resumes to make a two-way
search feasible.
http://www.careercity.com

Xtreme Recruiting: Human Capital Management in the New Millennium -
the free all-day seminar on July 12 is focused on presenting how the
industry's leading experts are solving the challenges of attracting,
identifying and retaining top talent.
http://www.intralect.com/event_form.html

DIVERSITY EXPO 2000 on July 19th at New York's Manhattan Center.
http:/www.diversityexpo.com/exhibiting.html

Short clips from upcoming Masters Series on Internet Recruiting.
http://www.itworld.com/itwebcast/masters.html

GeoWeb Interactive offers job postings, resume searching and
recruiting on the Internet. They have more than 1,000 clients,
ranging from
small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
http://www.geowebjobs.com
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ResSource - in 1999, Forrester Group determined that it cost the
average company about $7.38 to collect one resume. This was measured
from the initial identification and write up of a need, the ensuing
advertising, and the eventual delivery or arrival of the resume.
However, the key point unsaid or not measured was what percentage of
those received hit the mark at least 50% or better. Major job portals
like Monster.com spend millions to attract job seekers, and their
costs are about half of that figure and they too don't deliver
consistent winners. How about a unique resume sourcing service that
costs so little you wonder how they make any money?
http://netrecruiter.net/sourcing.html

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