The IT Jobs Blog

ATS and Integrated Career Page

2007-11-13T11:50:52.796-08:00

What is an integrated career page?

When you advertise your job openings on various mediums, the candidates normally view your advertisement there and eventually cross check it with your career page. Suppose these openings don’t show on your career page at the same time or if you do not have a career page, then a candidate does the next best thing, he/she applies to the generic e-mail ids provided on your website e.g info@company.com or hr@company.com

Such generic e-mail ids attract a lot of junk mail and trash mail and the chances of you deleting a quality resume by mistake is huge. Hence, it becomes imperative for you to have an updated career page that is not only live and real time at all times but also directs all the resumes to the inbox of your recruiter. So an integrated career page becomes essential because, not only is it cost effective, it is also maintenance free.

You can, here, integrate the career page with our job site. This is a small technical process which can be easily sorted. An IT person from your company and our specialist will spend a couple of hours trying to understand how your career page or web site works and integrates or merges (in a broad term) your career page with our job board.

Having an Integrated Career Page is the first step towards having your own simple and efficient Applicant Tracking System (ATS). You could choose have the larger complicated ones, or a more simple one which starts with integrating your career page.

What is an Applicant Tracking System

An Applicant Tracking System, also called a candidate management system, is a software application designed to help an enterprise recruit employees more efficiently. An ATS includes a corporate career site, allowing companies to post jobs onto their own website, as a way to attract candidates. Candidates may apply for specific jobs or generally to the company. Effective solutions store this candidate data inside a database to allow effective searching, filtering, and routing of applications.

Why Is ATS Important ?

Companies Having Integrated Career Page

Companies Not Having Integrated Career Page

Real Time Job Ads

Yes

Dynamically Searchable Resume

Yes

Enterprise wide Accessibility

Yes

Company Ownership

Yes

Builds company Brand

Yes

Better User / Candidate Interface / Experience

Yes

Cost of Maintenance less

Yes

Avoid junk mail in you company mailbox.

Yes

Avoid loss of database when an employee moves on

Yes

Avoid loss of database due to technical or mechanical error

Yes

No more paperwork

Yes

Easy access from anywhere in the world

Yes

Helps keep notes for future reference, on a candidate

Yes

Company wide reports view for the management

Yes

Helps re-distribute work load for better results

Yes

Allows Job Specific Screening Questions

Yes

Tracks the flow of the Application Process

Yes

Allows for Simple Email Blasting to Groups of Applicants

Yes

Allows for Multiple Logins enterprise wide

Yes

Dashboard view of hiring status

Yes

Quick resume search

Yes

Tag based search

Yes

Less search time and more call time for your recruiters with candidates

Yes

Quick and easy search of internal and external candidates

Yes

IM facility

Yes

Candidate ownership with a recruiter within the enterprise.

Yes

Saving your search string.

Yes

Your job posting is never down

Yes

Eliminate costly agency fees.

Yes

Reduce the cost per hire

Yes

To sum up, implementing an Applicant Tracking system allows a company to effectively advertise its job requirements over a wide area, organize and filter candidate data for further reference, reduce company costs, and above all increase productivity.

This weblog is sponsored by iitjobs.

IT Jobs - Global Validation - Part 2

2007-11-10T09:31:45.437-08:00

Would you say every country is self sufficient with opportunity providers and appropriate, qualified talent alike? No? Well, how then, would you fill that void?

The answer is to spread your horizons and look beyond your boundaries. With the governments of almost all the countries relaxing their rules for easy movement of Technology (IT) talent from any one point in the world to the other, the world has become flat in its true essence. And with this there is no better segment to be in than IT. I would like to share one such fabulous success story with you. This will also disillusion our fellow recruiters who swear by one job board or another for total solutions. Believe me, NOTHING WORKS.

As we are all aware that US is known as the land of opportunities and home for large and small corporations alike. One such 20 year old, NASDAQ listed,over $500 million company had this gigantic task of employing a huge number of experienced candidates for various positions that they had open. They tried all the job boards, newspapers, references or whatever other means that they could to fill those positions at the earliest, but are not really successful. So here is what they do. They fall back on us to try to gather such talent from anywhere in the world to work in the US on H1b's Visa's

How did we accomplish it? We worked in different shifts, looked up all the leading job boards, ended up with almost the same candidates on them,launched a campaign and ultimately with all the push and shove, managed to get a handful bunch to work for the US. In the entire screening and grunt work process we realized that one thing really works perfectly. It is always a mix of various sourcing strategies with the scales tipping more towards the personal networking and references.

We were able to tap technology professionals from all over the world with top-notch skills from - Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, UK, U.A.E (Dubai), South Africa and India. All together we had hard to find skills over 50
professionals approved for USA on H1b Visa.

iitjobs global job advertisement, global technology database and networking enabled us to successfully execute the project.

About The author - Firozy is a IT recruiter working with matrix7i. She has a extensive recruitement experience in key skills such as SAP and Oracle. She can be reached at firozy AT matrix7i.com

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IT Jobs - Global Validation - Part 1

2007-11-10T09:18:34.109-08:00

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working
together is success." - Henry Ford

Power of Global Job board combine with Networking serves a large client in Australia

Simply put, Recruitment is the fine art of finding a right person for a right job at right time.
Although difficult for these three factors to fall in line; it is not impossible either.

An e-mail from my VP for the technology (IT) requirement for an Australian company baffled me initially.
'Cause, some of the skills mentioned therein were completely new to me. And I confess, I had
never even heard of them as they were very recent skills set. Therefore, to be able to pre-screen a
suitable candidate, a little research was imperative. Post research, I realized that most of the skills were Oracle Applications related. And the next thing was to funnel resumes for the same.

Our team strategically sourced candidate names from iitjobs. After some screening and a little chat with one of the candidates we also learnt that the required skills were interrelated. And that made Resume funneling a bit
easier.

However, since most of the prospective candidates were available either on weekends or at night, tracking and talking to them and to convince them of this opening posed a problem too.

But as luck would have it, the very first candidate I spoke to turned out to be the most suitable one too. Talking to him was a great experience and I learned a lots more about the required skills and their inter-relatedness.

But, what still puzled me was - why a large resourceful Australian company would outsource recruitment ? Of course, the company urgently wanted candidates with extensive in BPEL (Business Process Execution Language)experience. Running out of time, they were unable to find a suitable candidate in Australia since BPEL is a tough terrain and hence a rare skill.Naturally, urgency played a role too.

Probably a sum total of all such factors prompted them to tap into our expertise and resources to broaden their search globally vis-a-vis friendly Australian immigration policy - 457. And within just 2 weeks we gave them a
suitably qualified candidate.

But there were 2 vacancies, and they were still short of one.

We called up the selected guy to know if he has any friend/colleague with similar expertise. He could win an iPod if he recommends a suitable candidate and that candidate gets selected. And voila! He popped out two
names and one of them got selected.

And surprise of surprises, this new candidate did not have his resume on any job board. But thanks to an eager referral we were able to track one more candidate who fit the bill perfectly. I think that speaks volumes about power of networking. Of course, prompt response and quick efficient processing by the Australian company made a
difference too.

We encourage referrals. And while tracking and talking to prospective candidates, we often get such useful references from most of them. It was a rewarding learning experience that reasserts the truth about what Henry ford
has said.

About The author- Rucha is a IT recruiter with Matrix7i. She has over 5 Years of recruiting experience with some of the top staffing companies operating in the IT domain. She can be reached at rucha AT matrix7i.com

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Is there a cure for common cold ? In the same essence is there a cure for a technical recruiter ?

2007-02-14T06:11:48.093-08:00

They say it takes two weeks to get over a common cold, with or without medicine. Is it not the same scenario for "Just in Time recruitment" ? Nothing seems to work most of the time. Internet search,traditional style Unix job boards,job boards,referral, advertisement or any other sourcing channel available to a technical recruiter, does not seem to work for recruiting a technology professional in today's market. What can today's creative technical recruiter do to stay ahead of the pack. These are a few ideas and suggestions:

°    Like in life " Prevention is better than cure " for common cold, in the same analogy I believe the technical recruiter has to learn to build a pipeline of prospective candidates way before the requirement pops up, I.e instead of fire fighting.

°    "Home cures help manage common cold better" Similarly referrals, ATS (Applicant tracking system) mining, networking and advertising for pipeline will help manage talent better than "just in time" recruiting

°    " Good immune system helps keep common cold away", similarly good HR practices, training and best practices help retain talent thereby helping to reduce attrition.
As the common cold is a contentious, nagging trouble sometime fatal, technical recruiting has to be taken in complete seriousness. While seeking help from as many sources as possible (like technology groups, networking, advertisement in addition to job boards mining as in common cold, like homeopathic remedies,steam inhalation, herbal potions, balms love and care in addition to antibiotics.)

In the same essence is there a cure for a technical recruiter ? We have tried various therapies like Monster therapy , Dice Therapy , Careerbuilder therapy , Iitjobs therapy.There are many job boards the world, but still its difficult to find the right candidate But then does the recruiter find the right kind of people ?

The answer is "yes" and "no" both .

Its time to accept the hard fact that free resume search websites for employers or recruiters don't help much but they do help in creating that valuable pipeline.Basically a recruiter needs to systematically build relationships and develop networks .Technical recruiters need to get creative, strong and persistent to help deliver the scarce commodity of technical talent.

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Search for a job in the UK

2007-02-01T03:20:39.937-08:00

Being a recruiter the most commonly asked question which i regularly face is that,how to search for a job in the uk ? and my answer to that is always .....huh???? Recently the UK has opened its borders to the geeks and has virtually put a red carpet for IT professionals. This move by the is being seen as a major way to boost its inflow of high tech labour.

There yet are many countries yet to follow the suit but the UK has been the first one to implement this kind of policy after Uncle sam did way back in the 90's.Well over the times software industry has gone through some radical changes right from algorithms to outsourcing.People might argue that outsourcing is bad but frankly speaking its helping the economies more than ever.As per a report the average employment in th US has been to a record low,i guess this is a suitable explanation for the above.

Nowdays skills like SAP and open source technologies are in huge demand.SAP is very hot these days and of course traditional programming languages like C++ and Java are also in the wanted list.In the united states market SAP is in huge demand and so it is in UK.As the software industry is booming and cash is flowing like never before the companies have started investing more in ERP/CRM applications and even provide free training to its employees.If i would have been in some candidates shoes i would go for SAP or any other ERP/CRM package

Now comes the question "how to search for a job in the UK" ,well it isn't easy as it seems you can either post your resume on a job board or look for headhunters.While posting your resume on a job board is the easiest option but it may not be the most effective option( correct me if i am wrong ) but the best way out is through traditional means a.k.a Network.Job boards do provide a global reach for your resume but the key is posting your resume on a niche job board or a industry specific job board...that will greatly increase your chances of being noticed.

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Dawn of Niche Job Boards

2006-12-16T10:43:44.797-08:00

Om Malick writes a contemporary article on the rise of Niche Job Boards. With online recruiting search at the highest growth rate and lack of trained talent in the market place the Niche boards play a pivotal role in the sourcing strategy of a cutting edge recruiter.

Click here to read the complete article.

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Attract Top IT Professionals Globally and get ‘real’ with your career page

2006-11-26T23:37:13.64-08:00

IT Specific Global Candidates
iitjobs offers open Global Information Technology specific resume database. We at iitjobs have taken extreme care to ensure that recruiters do not have to deal with mounds of resumes from unqualified candidates.

Being an IT specific job board you can expect candidate resumes that meet your needs.
We allow you to publish a list of questions that each candidate needs to fill in which will allow you ask pre-screening questions to filter out invalid applications.
Candidates are only allowed to apply to a job advertisement once so that you are not spammed with reapplications.
We do not blast resume nor give recruiters e-mail ids to candidates. We encourage you to not post your e-mail id’s in the job advertisements so that your email id is not spammed. When a candidate applies we will be sending you an e-mail notification with the full candidate details.
We do not have ‘job cart’ function given to candidates where they just randomly select job openings and apply without even reading the requirements. With iitjobs all candidates have to read through the job advertisement before applying to ensure that they meet your requirements.

Seamlessly integrate your career page with iitjobs
Statistics indicate that about 70% of the candidates visit your company’s career page on viewing your advertisement on various job boards, newspapers, magazines etc. If the same postings do not reflect on the career page, the candidates have no place to apply and they tend to shy away from applying to generic mail ids like hr @ yourcompanysite.com or career @ yourcompanysite.com. More over these generic e mail ids attract more junk e-mails from spammers than actual applicants. Thus it becomes imperative for technology companies like yours to have a simple real time live career page which reflects all the currently open positions without involvement of your IT. iitjobs can seamlessly integrate your career web page to display all your current opening on your corporate website. Negligible IT efforts are required to integrate with iitjobs. We have a dedicated IT team to assist you integrate your career page with your corporate web site. Once integrated this feature is a no maintenance options where all the live job advertisements made by your company recruiters will appear in real time on your company web site. Feel free to ask our sales representatives to give you a demo of how this integration works.

Free Web based Built in iTATSsm – Talent Acquisition Tracking System (Applicant Tracking System – ATS):
iitjobs iTATS is a company wide, multi-user, Web based, user friendly -Applicant Tracking System – ATS. We allow collaboration amongst various recruiters of the company working to fulfill positions to increasing the efficiency of your team.

Key highlights of iitjobs iTATS:

In one click move resumes from iitjobs open database to your secured company resume database.
Unlimited Web based company-wide hosted resume database with powerful search options.
Secured ownership of resumes.
Mass e-mail feature to enable campaigning within your target group of candidates. Campaign e-mails are sent to the candidates e-mail as well as it is saved in the candidates iPACTS Portal so even if the e-mail is delivered to the candidates junk box its still viewable in his personal portal.
Easy resume migration from .pst (MS outlook), Access DB, web based or from any format into web hosted resume database.
Dashboard view for management and customized reports.
iTATS can be configured or customized based on your company requirements.

Please feel free to send your suggestions to our team at iitjobs. Feel free to ask our sales representatives to give you a detailed demonstration of our system.

This weblog is sponsored by iitjobs.

IT specific global job advertisement distribution

2006-11-26T23:32:57.39-08:00

iitjobs offers global Information Technology specific Job Advertisement Distribution and Publishing

Our Job advertisements can be targeted for local to global reach, depending on your recruiting strategy. Recruiters can advertise same job advertisement in multiple cities / countries to attract talent globally and build global brand for your company. Every single job advertisement is published to several vertical jobs search engines which cater to specific areas. Below is the short list of continuously growing vertical search engines iitjobs is partnering with:

Job Location: USA
www.base.google.com/base,
www.indeed.com ,
www.simplyhired.com ,
www.oodle.com

Job Location: Canada
http://canada.indeed.com/

Job Location: India
http://in.jobs.yahoo.com/,
http://jobsearch.rediff.com/.

Job Location: Asia Pacific Australia Countries
http://www.recruit.net/

These vertical job search engines get over a million candidates visiting their site every day. Other companies charge you an arm and leg to publish your job advertisements to these job search verticals – but at iitjobs it’s a Free service for all our clients!

Not just that, our special technology publishes all your jobs advertisements in major search engines like Google, Msn, Yahoo so that your job advertisements attract the most eyeballs to get quicker turnaround for your requirements. So be creative, build your pipeline of candidates by using power of iitjobs job advertisement global distribution. Every recruiter gets 10 job advertisements with unlimited edits and can publish the job advertisements globally. So make use of this opportunity, maximize your job posting on iitjobs and attract the talent you seek.

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New IT specific Global Job Board--iitjobs.com

2006-10-30T23:28:41.218-07:00

One More Job Board! WHY?
Yes, there are over 80,000 job boards and everyday new job boards are launched. A search result for key word “Job Board” in Google will yield a million results. Even after combining all the job boards across the world there is less than 50% chance of getting help for a technology recruiter or a candidate. But in reality if the job boards were working for technology recruiters, would we be needing the recruiters at the first place?

More and more technology recruiters are working long hours to serve their clients. Job boards form a miniscule part of their sourcing strategy.

The intention is not to coach, but the success of a technology recruiter lies in networking and having his own dynamic searchable candidate pool. We are providing those tools so that your resume database becomes dynamic and network within them. Also, experienced technology professionals when seeking opportunities are comfortable within their network to make career moves. As more and more companies are growing globally, a single 'dot com' address that serves their sourcing strategy is required to attract top IT talent.

Therefore the idea is to empower the IT community by providing unique tools for the technology recruiter and for the candidates to maximize their skills globally. Moreover there is a push from industry to all the major governments to have favorable immigration policy for Technology professionals or so called speciality skills.

Our focus is only in Global technology talent acquisition space. – iitjobs.com

Are we Crazy?
Maybe….maybe – Yes there are people behind iitjobs who have decided to take up this crazy idea (bull by the horn).

The idea has been in our mind for two years, but it was a little difficult to muster courage to quit our well cushioned jobs and burn our savings in a heavily crowded and competitive market.

As we ourselves were using multiple – fragmented ‘all-in-one’ job boards in our daily recruitment and seeking for opportunities, we were merely looking for solution to our own problems. We are a team of technology recruiters who have recruited people from Brazil to Australia, Africa/EU/Russia to USA, Canada, NZ, Singapore and India, almost everywhere in the world.

And team of Technology professionals who have worked on global technology projects were looking for tools which are not offered by fragmented ‘all-in’ job boards.

So the question was, why not to develop a single IT specific global job board AND MAYBE the world’s first – iitjobs.com – (Feel free to correct us)

The Jump:
Passion, Vision, Urge to get it done and two inspirations.

ONE – The World is Flat – by Thomas L Friedman.
TWO – A quote by a person with the “midas touch”

“An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true."

These were good enough reasons to make us dive for iitjobs.com

Our Mission:
To be the ‘eBay’ of IT Job Board. Our key mission is to serve IT recruiters and IT candidates in a simple global job Internet based marketplace.

Our Vision:
Lead the ‘flattening’ of global IT community by harnessing technology for talent acquisition through innovative solutions.

Our Philosophy:
Search. Simple. Speed. Scalable. Secure. Sincerity. Service. Innovation

Search:
This is core to our heart and we keep investing our sweat in this area. The question was, being global, how can we provide accurate fast and precise candidate search?

Simple:
Our job postings, applicant tracking system, management dashboard view, in-built communication, candidate portal, etc, each functionality is built around simplicity. We have not built complex system where you need hours of training to actually use the system.

As it’s just a job board you can figure it out by yourself, we guarantee you will not break anything.

Speed:
We would not like to award a coffee break from a click to opening a page. We despise slow speed. We will never let that happen.

Scalable:
As we have built-in web based applicant tracking system you could have your own pool of candidates in a secured area and who knows it may grow to a million resumes!

Secure:
We would like to ensure that your data is secure. As the system is web based it is insured against coffee spills, theft, virus and maintenance.

Sincerity:
This is more towards our honesty we guarantee to the technology professional (Privacy Policy). We understand that your resume has valuable information that can be misused, but we would like to reassure that your information is safe and secure with us.

We do not sell the trust you've reposed in us by sharing, selling or blasting your vital information.
Your resume will be accessible only to hiring firms.
We do not blast or mass mail resumes to any company or job sites.

In the unlikely event of finding a breach at our site we request you to inform us immediately at support @ iitjobs.com

Service:
We provide various value added services like resume migration from paper, .pst, or any other system to our ATS. Custom reports, Job Advertisement Distribution, Creative writing for your job advertisement, System Customization or just ask.

Innovation:
Is it not the only way to Live?

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The Edge states "8 Reasons Candidates Reject Companies"

2006-10-06T03:25:24.057-07:00

Steve & Maureen spelled as "The Edge" write about the "8 reasons candidates are turning you down"

Companies are as much an individual identity as candidates. They are what they project. Some companies fail to project themself and connect to the right candidates. The relationship is the same as between two individuals.

The Edge creatively extends the relation between candidates and companies as not being too different for each other.

Click here to read the complete article

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Michael Specht digs out an interesting list of words to be avoided in a resume

2006-10-03T22:48:02.573-07:00

Michael goes deep to dig out a excellent resource for job seekers. From an article of Tech Republic he lists the words a candidate needs to avoid while writing his resume.

Excellent resource for job seekers, especially freshers.

Click here to read more

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Getting ready to tackle Attrition

2006-09-29T09:01:17.187-07:00

Gautam Gosh from Hyderabad jots down 10 compelling reasons leading to high attrition rates in a overheated market.

Matching individual vision with the organizations vision can be starting point for all organizations wanting to evolve as better retainers of their talent pool.

Please dont miss his parting shot (update link) on creating internal talent market.

Click here to read complete article

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