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IN THIS ISSUE
Newsletter Sponsors
A Note from the Editor
Breaking News
Today's Recruiting News Headlines
Featured Recruiting Jobs
Weekly
Article:
How to
Prevent Resume Overload with a Questionnaire
Special Trials and Discounts
Recruiting
Polls and Trends
Layoffs and Downsizing
Report
Recruiting Essential Bookmarks
Upcoming Conferences
Site Of The Week:
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Putreach Organization - Free Job Postings
Final Note - On The Lighter Side
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A Note From The Editor
College Grad Hiring Up 12.8% for 2004
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Breaking News
Monster Employment Index Shows Jump
in Online Job Demand In April
- Increases in Job
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- Sales, Business &
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Weekly Article
How to
Prevent Resume Overload with a Questionnaire
By Peter Donohue
Do you receive too many applicants for your open
position? Using a questionnaire to prescreen applicants
may be a cost effective solution that lets you easily
sort through all the applicants to find the best ones.
And questionnaires are not as hard as you may think to
use.
Background:
 The
job market has changed markedly from the boom times of
the late 90s. We have gone from not being able to find
enough live bodies (let alone qualified bodies) for open
positions, to receiving hundreds of applicants for job
postings. This has brought about a major challenge for
hiring managers – sorting through all of these
applicants to determine who is worth interviewing.
Solutions to managing resume overload generally
involve throwing resources at the problem. You can hire
a recruiter to do the job for you, or install some form
or Applicant Tracking System to help automate it. But if
you can’t justify installing a system, and don’t want to
pay for a Recruiter, you end up dealing with the resume
overload by hand.
The questionnaire solution:
But there is a relatively easy way to manage resume
overload, and that is to use an automated prescreening
system. One method is to use a questionnaire that the
applicant would fill in when they apply for the
position. Alice Snell of iLogos Research reported “A
simple online questionnaire makes it easier than ever
before to obtain skill sets from applicants. The
recruiters can tailor the online questionnaires to
detect the required skills, to meet the exact needs of a
company, position, or requisition.”
Click here for rest of article.
About the Author
Peter Donohue is the
Business Development Manager for HELPUHIRE Solutions.
HELPUHIRE Solutions develops and hosts applicant
prescreen questionnaires, so that company can easily and
inexpensively determine which applicants are worth
interviewing for their open positions.
Peter holds an MBA from State University of New York at
Buffalo and has experience on both sides of the staffing
table through his 12 years experience with various tech
companies (along with all too much time job hunting). He
has always been interested in understanding how things
work, and while job hunting, started delving into
understanding the process and tools used by hiring
managers. This has made him a perfect fit with HELPUHIRE
Solutions.
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Recruiting Polls and Trends
Monster Employment Index Shows Jump
in Online Job Demand In April
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Layoffs and Downsizing
Report
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Recruiting Essential Bookmarks
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Final Note - On The
Lighter Side
From the worthless trivia
mailbag:
*Winston Churchill was born
in a ladies' room during a dance.
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