Honey! I shrunk the process

October 16th, 2007, 11:57 pm admin Just jammin

Before:

Go to job board
Pay for a year
Search resumes, filter
Worry about accuracy, though nothing much could be done
Download resumes one by one
Or, depend on the job board’s over used and abused (to the extent of spam) broadcasts
Manual resume scavenging
Pull out email IDs and phone numbers
Call (and be surprised that the candidate has nothing to do with your requirements)
Scamper to get some schedules
Best case: 500 resumes ran through in a day, and some schedules with luck and the recruiting God smiling at us

Now:
Search (Oh we do not pay for access anymore)
Actually, do not search, map resumes to your job order, get ranked results (this is nirvana)
Preview samples, fine tune search again
Drill down to a good basket of 75 - that’s something that me and my peer can cover in an hour
Add your shortlisted resumes to your desktop
Download - do not bother - get the information you want from your resume (not data)
Generated a report of just phone numbers and name for us to call
Generate a report of skills and name for the interviewer (not resume dressing needed anymore)
We select candidates for skills not for their resume formats

Are you asking, where this can be done?
GoRecroot for progressive recruiting - True customer oriented eCommerce approach to recruiting services - That is truly a first

A peer in the MIS world was good to point out the the difference between information and data: Information is useful data. Coming to our world: resumes is data, qualifying, mapped resume is information. And, information is wealth. Amen.