Tue
Apr
29
I’m trying to find the time to write a few articles on getting the most out of the resources you already own. Numerous clients have mentioned that they can access paid databases, but use our services anyway because we find resumes they don’t.
There are approximately 50 million unique resumes across the 3 major databases, so it’s a pretty fair bet that at least 1 candidate exists who matches your needs… if you’re not finding that candidate, there may be better ways to look.
Here’s my latest article on ERE: http://www.ere.net/articles/db/99CA714A22E24172BBB9F06770504BF6.asp
Thu
Apr
10
SourceSimple has offered discounts on Prepaid Campaigns for almost a year now. Many of our clients take advantage of our Prepaid Campaigns to save money and time.
In addition to the usual discounts and convenience, we are adding free Applicant Review to all Prepaid Campaigns purchased in April. This allows you to receive Applicant Review at no charge for as many campaigns as are in your prepaid account. As Prepaid Campaigns never expire, you can save quite a bit of money in both campaign fees and Applicant Review fees by pre-paying today for your future use.
To purchase a Prepaid Pack of Campaigns, please click here.
Quite a few of our clients have asked if we can review emailed applications from candidates. When a candidate applies to a current SourceSimple job advertisement, the resume is delivered directly to our clients without interference. This is a very effective strategy for clients who are seeking greater quantity of resumes; however we also have clients who would prefer to see only qualified applicants.
We are launching a new service called ‘Applicant Review’ to address this need. Applicant Review is very simple, and hopefully very effective — when a candidate applies to a job, we will receive the resume. We will then run it against the same criteria used to search the resume databases for that campaign. If it passes the criteria, we will forward it on; if it does not pass, we will not forward it.
Applicant Review is an optional add-on for SourceSimple campaigns. We are offering it FREE for a limited time on campaigns purchased during April. The ultimate pricepoint isn’t set yet, but rest assured that it will be appropriately low to add value cost effectively.
We recently launched a new service to make the initial contact with candidates. The service is called SelectSimple. SelectSimple is a ‘baseline pre-qualification’ service, intended to establish a candidate’s interest, availability, and attitude.
Clients using SelectSimple provide us with the candidates they would like to be contacted, and as many as 10 questions they would like the candidates to be asked. We call and email the candidates over a period of 5 days — all contact attempts are made in the evenings and on weekends. Once we reach a candidate, we conduct the baseline interview and pass along the information we received.
Clients pre-pay for the number of candidates to be contacted. We hold the pre-payment as “contact credits” and deduct 1 credit for each interview. If a candidate is not interviewed, no credits are deducted. Credits don’t expire, so any credits not used in a given campaign can be applied to future campaigns.
SelectSimple is still in pilot mode with a small group of clients. Each day of the pilot we learn a new way to improve the service. We also discovered a fairly surprising positive consequence of contacting candidates in this manner:
Because we introduce outselves as a “pre-qualification service”, candidates tend to be more open in their conversations than they might be with a recruiter. We make it clear that we are not decision makers, and that our only goal is to save everyone time and effort by determining quickly if there is a reason for the candidate and the recruiter to talk. The candidates we’ve spoken to have been receptive and have had no qualms about sharing information with us.
Fri
Feb
1
In early January 2008, Monster Worldwide acquired Affinity Labs, a San Francisco company that builds career-related communities. Among their 7 communities is NursingLink. Resumes uploaded at NursingLink go into the Monster database, and jobs posted on Monster can appear on NursingLink.
Affinity Labs also hosts communities for government, technology, education, and law enforcement. Monster is going after candidates where they are — in social environments. This will inevitably make them even more dominant in the recruiting space, and help to build out their candidate database considerably. As such, Monster will become increasingly important to SourceSimple and all baseline sourcing services.
