Sometimes as recruiters you can often begin to feel like glorified CV sifters
. When you are presented with a new and exciting role the prospect of having to search through thousands upon thousands of CVs can often take the shine off the process. But there is a way to speed up the process and make it more efficient. Below are four quick tips on how to speed up your CV searching process:
Maintain a good database! Internal databases are a real gold mine when kept up-to-date. This can cut hours off the process of trawling through job boards. If you databases arent up to scratch consider employing the services of a database cleanser. These are considerably less expensive than job boards and can make a real difference.
Learn how to use Google correctly. For example if you are searching for an Engineer in London you might type Engineer London CV and receive millions of results. But by altering your search terms you can narrow down the results. Try using brackets, for example Engineer (London OR Central OR Chiswick) (CV OR resume OR vitae). A lot of the results might be other people like yourself looking for candidates, so make sure you use -job jobs recruitment so you dont get any job adverts. This means you get a lot more out of the search engine than 100 pages of nothing!
Use niche job boards. It is often tempting to invest huge sums into large job boards for their CV searching facilities, but it often results in a lot of CVs that are not applicable to your vacancy. If you are looking for a gas engineer why not use the services of a niche job board like http://www.oilandgasjobsearch.com. This gives you the best possible ROI for the facilities to search CVs of only oil and gas workers.
Outsource your CV searching. There are now many specialist teams offering to search exclusive databases and / or the internet for your perfect candidate. One outsourcer, Arpeo Solutions, utilise the time when people are most likely to register for job sites and upload their CVs (evenings and weekends) they can hunt out CVs and prequalify them to any specifications for the role. When you sit down at your desk the next morning a short list of clients is ready and waiting to be presented to your client.