Online Recruitment Firm
One of my friend’s over the past few months has been speculating starting her own recruitment firm, but was not sure how to go about investing & setting it up. So we got together and brainstormed a few ideas. We created a list of tools that are of utmost importance for her work.
It turns out Microsoft Office, MS Word more precisely is one of the most sought after tools by recruiters, followed by Microsoft Outlook for email.
95-98% of the people seeking jobs send their resumes in MS Word format.
Time immemorial email is one of the fastest and most efficient way of bulk communication.
Using MS Office is expensive, and word documents are a prime target for carrying viruses. We needed a document reader, an email client and a strong anti-virus software.
Not sounding too stingy doing business running of the mill free gmail, yahoo or hotmail account, we invested in a domain name and got ourselves a dot.com so we could user @ourdomain.com. We got Google Apps and used our domain name to host it, and we were ready as a recruitment firm.
Let me explain our choices; We choose the Google Apps package, because it comes with 3 major tools we needed.
Gmail: One of the best email clients on the web, supports grouped conversation, amazing search, apply labels.
The grouped conversation helps you track the posting for which you’ve received a reply.
You can apply labels such as Java, .NET, ruby, finance, hedge funds etc.. and classify incoming resumes. Applying multiple labels helps you pick up users from a wide range of skill sets faster.
Direct integration with google docs.
Amazing anti-virus policy. The attachment is scanned when the document is received and also when we download/open the attachment
Google Docs: Online document reader, allows you to export as PDF and MS Word.
No danger of being hit by virus.
Allows you to collaborate documents online, so if you need some more clarification from the job-seeker or need them to update the document, you can always share the document and ask them to modify it.
Once done, just export the document in MS Word format and mail it to the company. Saves you a lot of time and effort running behind the job seeker and tracking which email as the final version.
One of the main reasons for choosing Google Docs was “upload via email“.
Google docs gives you a long, obscure email address which is difficult to remember and, if we mail a word document or any text document to it. Google docs creates a word document for us online. We went ahead and created an email alias resume@domain.com which received resumes and stored it on the google server.
Google Calendar: A free bonus! Helps you schedule, track and invite others to your meetings.
One of the biggest benefits is you don’t need to carry your laptop around not sure when you receive the next email and will have to forward the resume, also tomorrow if the hard drive crashes, we have nothing to worry all the data is backed up on the google cloud, just pick up a new machine log on to the browser and we are back in business.
It turns out Microsoft Office, MS Word more precisely is one of the most sought after tools by recruiters, followed by Microsoft Outlook for email.
95-98% of the people seeking jobs send their resumes in MS Word format.
Time immemorial email is one of the fastest and most efficient way of bulk communication.
Using MS Office is expensive, and word documents are a prime target for carrying viruses. We needed a document reader, an email client and a strong anti-virus software.
Not sounding too stingy doing business running of the mill free gmail, yahoo or hotmail account, we invested in a domain name and got ourselves a dot.com so we could user @ourdomain.com. We got Google Apps and used our domain name to host it, and we were ready as a recruitment firm.
Let me explain our choices; We choose the Google Apps package, because it comes with 3 major tools we needed.
Gmail: One of the best email clients on the web, supports grouped conversation, amazing search, apply labels.
The grouped conversation helps you track the posting for which you’ve received a reply.
You can apply labels such as Java, .NET, ruby, finance, hedge funds etc.. and classify incoming resumes. Applying multiple labels helps you pick up users from a wide range of skill sets faster.
Direct integration with google docs.
Amazing anti-virus policy. The attachment is scanned when the document is received and also when we download/open the attachment
Google Docs: Online document reader, allows you to export as PDF and MS Word.
No danger of being hit by virus.
Allows you to collaborate documents online, so if you need some more clarification from the job-seeker or need them to update the document, you can always share the document and ask them to modify it.
Once done, just export the document in MS Word format and mail it to the company. Saves you a lot of time and effort running behind the job seeker and tracking which email as the final version.
One of the main reasons for choosing Google Docs was “upload via email“.
Google docs gives you a long, obscure email address which is difficult to remember and, if we mail a word document or any text document to it. Google docs creates a word document for us online. We went ahead and created an email alias resume@domain.com which received resumes and stored it on the google server.
Google Calendar: A free bonus! Helps you schedule, track and invite others to your meetings.
One of the biggest benefits is you don’t need to carry your laptop around not sure when you receive the next email and will have to forward the resume, also tomorrow if the hard drive crashes, we have nothing to worry all the data is backed up on the google cloud, just pick up a new machine log on to the browser and we are back in business.
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