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Recruiting today requires the ability to adapt to new recruiting and social media technologies to find and connect with the best candidates for openings. LinkedIn is a crowded space for recruiters and job seekers, although it is evolving with more intuitive tools like candidates/jobs you might like. The sheer size of social media makes it challenging to search manually. Employers and recruiters who need to put together a qualified workgroup or workforce quickly just can t do it the old school way with a phone, rolodex, and a few job ads. The need to quickly and accurately identify candidates with the types of technical, niche, communication, and leadership skills has prompted the evolution of recruiting software such as social aggregation tools, resume spiders and applicant tracking systems. SOCIAL AGGREGATION TOOLS Social aggregation tools are recruiting software that help enable recruiters and hiring managers to go beyond Boolean search to quickly and easily find the right candidates from among millions with the exact skills and experience required. Products such as SwoopTalent, HiringSolved, Gild, and Talent Bin search through social media profiles to make matches based on job titles, education, and skills, plus contact information and other useful data on candidates. Social aggregation tools solve sourcing problems by transforming search into a simple process with a wide reach to find qualified candidates that aren t identified with Google or LinkedIn searches. Users enter their search criteria and aggregators return matching candidates with aggregated profiles from across the web and social media. Instead of searching Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Gitup, StackOverflow and other areas of the web individually to read all of a candidate s online presences, the aggregators do all the searching and return all of the candidate information in one package. SwoopTalent SwoopTalent is an affordable social aggregator with a wide reach for all types of candidates. It searches the web for social media profiles and collects them into comprehensive profiles so you see the whole picture with just one search. You can search their data base of a hundred million records by skill, keyword, and job title. Swoop also has ATS integration so you can automate your candidate searches. Swoop works with dozens of sites, including Dribble, Github, Security Focus, Meetup, Stackoverflow, and many others. Their searches even rank candidates by how closely they match your search parameters. HiringSolved HiringSolved continuously searches social networks, forums, blogs, resumes, websites, profiles, and code across the web with context-aware search technology. Your specific terms are searched along with closely-related terms, so if you re looking for Linux developers, HiringSolved returns Yellow Dog, pg 2
Debian, and Red Hat profiles as well. HiringSolved is not just for tech candidates though, and has a wider reach for all types of recruiters. HiringSolved offers unlimited candidate searches and views and enables you to upload your own candidate pool and use their search technology to identify matching candidates. For the price of one large job board posting, you get a month of unlimited search. Gild Gild is a user-friendly, intuitive candidate sourcing tool specifically for tech recruiters who need to identify developer candidates quickly and accurately. Gild scores and ranks developers coding skills and knowledge from their aggregated profiles. Users can search Gild by coding skills, location, and work experience for the skilled candidates that most closely match their candidate criteria and email the candidates they find directly. TalentBin TalentBin is a social recruiting search engine that scours social media for technology candidates activity in blogs, forums, and social media and compiles social profiles on candidates. Employers and recruiters using TalentBin get matching profiles with full skill information and various contact methods so they can easily see a candidate s level of expertise in the areas being searched and quickly contact them without additional search and research. TalentBin also lets you compare your search results to your company s network to see connections with candidates and ask for referrals. RESUME SPIDERS Resume spiders are what power most recruiting software, ATS and social aggregation tools, but are also available as a stand-alone solution for recruiting. Resume spiders such as TalentHook and Infogist enable recruiters to search multiple resume databases quickly and easily to uncover new candidates and niche skills. TalentHook provides searches of paid and free resume databases, newsgroups, schools and online communities, as well as other sources such as Xray companies and ISPs. infogist is an economical tool to search multiple resume databases to find candidates with targeted skills and experience. Metasearch tools, or robots, include BullsEye, Copernic, and SearchLight extend candidate search capabilities and help recruiters find specific types of candidates economically. pg 3
APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEMS Applicant tracking systems are software applications or recruiting software to automate recruiting functions such as online application processing, resume tracking and sorting, data searching, and contact management. There are many different ATS products available, but three of the top systems are Taleo, Jobvite, and icims. Taleo Taleo is a large software-as-a-service product for talent acquisition, compensation and performance management, and learning and development. Companies use its recruiting software to process their online applications, HRIS processes, and other modular units to manage talent acquisition. Oracle Corporation bought Taleo in 2012 for $1.9 billion. Almost half of the top career sites worldwide are powered by Taleo and Taleo s average customer return on investment is almost $5 milllion. Many companies, and especially large national or global corporations, use applicant tracking systems like Taleo to streamline their recruiting processes. These let them store applications and resumes into databases searchable by keywords and sort them by position and/or skills, as well as other useful features. It s turned paper applications and resumes into virtual candidate data that s more easily accessible during the recruiting and hiring process. Oracle recently acquired Taleo for almost $2 billion, so there is a lot of value in their product, at least for employers and recruiters. Taleo has a feature called Talent Intelligence with embedded analytics, automatic information-gathering throughout the entire recruiting process, and many valuable ways to manipulate and extract recruiting data. Jobvite Jobite was introduced in 2003 as a social media job announcement and employee referral system. It has grown into a top-notch ATS, recruiter CRM, and social media recruiting system. It s a softwareas-a-service platform with a modular format. Jobite s modules include Jobvite Refer for social media referral processing, Jobvite Engage for social media sourcing management, and Jobvite Hire which is a total hiring solution that allows users to manage recruiting from requisition through hire with a single point of entry. Jobvite s focus on social recruiting helps employers and recruiters quickly and easily integrate social media into their recruiting processes and eliminate redundancies and time-consuming recruiting tasks and activities. Their platform is changing the way recruiting is done, saving time and money and improving the quality of recruiting efforts and results. pg 4
Jobvite Refer Jobvite Refer is an employee referral solution using the power of social media. Users can send Jobvites, use Facebook apps, publish openings to social media, and use analytics and reporting tools. Encourage employees to refer your openings to their social networks, see which employees refer the most qualified prospects to reward them, create and schedule reports on referrals and hiring rates, and integrate Jobvite Refer with your applicant tracking system. This module is for employers who are happy with their applicant tracking system and want to quickly and easily implement an effective employee referral system that integrates social media without creating one themselves or using a manual system. Jobvite Engage Jobvite Engage is a sourcing management system that enables users to manage recruiting campaigns across social media and integrate candidate information with their applicant tracking system. Its centralized search technology eliminates repetitive searches and allows scoring and ranking of matching results. It includes talent search and capture, social recruiting, Facebook applications, candidate relationship management, campaign management, recruiting intelligence, reporting, and applicant tracking system integration. Recruiters enjoy search agents, applications that let employees invite their Facebook connections and imports prospects, campaign and customer relationship management, with real-time metrics to measure sourcing efforts, and easy reporting capabilities. Jobvite s Facebook application, called Work With Us, allows employees to sync with your company s job openings to share them quickly and easily with their own networks for referrals. Automated Jobvite Twitter channels automatically send your Jobvites to Jobvite Twitter channels as soon as they re created. This is a module that focuses on quick and easy candidate sourcing through social media for employers and recruiters who want an easy-touse way to develop and track candidates. Jobvite Hire Jobvite Hire is a total hiring solution that enables users to track applicants from requisition to hire with a single sign-on. It incorporates applicant tracking, email and productivity, social recruiting and employee referrals, recruitment marketing, career sites, recruiting intelligence and reporting. pg 5
Recruiters enjoy requisition management, interview management, approval workflow, offer letter automation, and HRIS integration. Recruiting intelligence includes match to company branding, custom dashboards, real-time candidate source metrics, custom application and screening forms and LinkedIn profiles integration. Jobvite Hire is whole social media recruiting integration system for employers that want a wider reach than their current capabilities. This module is for employers or recruiters who want to replace their current applicant tracking system with a next-level product that includes social media recruiting capabilities and wide-scale efficiencies. icims icims Recruiting Software Suite supports the recruiting process from initial contact through hiring and onboarding with icim s Connect, icim s Recruit, and icim s Onboard. All of icims recruiting software components are integrated with social media for a total social recruiting process. Connect icims Connect gives recruiters one-click functions to manage the beginning of candidate contacts. It lets users incorporate their employment brand and tap into social media. With functions such as importing and sorting candidate information, storing and tracking new contacts directly in Connect with mobile kiosks at job fairs and hiring events instead of collecting paper resumes and applications, Connect reduces a lot of time and activity to a quick and easy-to-use process. It also allows candidates to share their social media profiles through the Social Connect Portal and subscribe to recruiting communications, and enables recruiters to share news about openings and drive candidates to their online application. Recruit This is the applicant tracking part of the icims suite. icim s Recruit is where candidates submit applications and enables recruiters to track, monitor, and expand their talent pools. Candidates can easily apply to recruiter s jobs right through their LinkedIn and other social media profiles, without leaving icims, making it an easy and valuable tool. There are no paper applications for recruiters to collect and manage because the software captures them online and allows searches on applications, job profiles, and resumes. Recruit helps recruiters and employers build their employment brand and improve their candidates experience with an automated and customizable communications component. Recruiters and employers use their logos and graphics to brand recruiting emails and synchronize email communications from icims Recruit and their email program. pg 6
Recruiters manage their recruiting with icims career portals created with their employment brand and geared toward different employee groups such as university hiring and hourly recruitment. Recruiters can quickly and easily improve and control candidate experience with icims. Onboard icims isn t just for sourcing and recruiting. It helps recruiters through onboarding as well, letting users handle the administrative and training tasks to situate new hires online through the icims Onboard portal. Shorten new hire orientation time and improve its quality by preparing newly hired employees so their first day is planned and productive. Engage newly hired employees with special welcome messages, photos, training and introductory videos, and introductions to corporate culture and policies and procedures. Recruiters reduce paperwork and improve hiring and onboarding productivity with online checklists of outstanding tasks and paperwork, easily run effective reports, and measure key performance indicators within icims Onboard feature. Social aggregation tools, Resume Spiders, and Applicant Tracking systems are electronic tools, many with social media integration, to automate parts or all of the recruiting process. Recruiting software is almost a necessity for recruiters and hiring managers who need to improve their recruiting processes, speed up search and sourcing methods, and automate recruiting. pg 7