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Recruiting Research Assistant

We are a professional, permanent staffing and recruiting company and we looking for an energetic, fun and positive Recruiter Assistant / Researcher to successfully recruit for a variety of full time permanent positions.

We focus in the internet marketing industry placing permanent salaried direct hires for our clients. This is a unique challenging position for a creative individual who also enjoys internet research, data mining, initial phone screening, and reference checks.  This position may also be responsible for scheduling interviews, qualifying referrals, and updating weekly sales sheets.

Candidates who have administrative or assistant level background in Human Resources, Marketing or Sales will be good fit for this position.

Characteristics:

• Internet Savvy – Strong Internet searching capabilities.
• Data Mining/Analysis – Strong ability to mine and analyze recruiting data.
• Multi-tasking – This is a time sensitive very fast paced job and you will be juggling many different tasks at the same time.
• Data Entry – Ability to enter information accurately into database.
• Extraverted – You must enjoy people because you will be interfacing with clients and candidates on a daily basis.
• Self confidence – Is achieved through repeated success of knowing your strengths and weaknesses and capitalizing on them.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Utilize various channels of candidate sourcing through internet job boards, referrals, and direct recruitment methods.
2. Will conduct and review Internet searches to source potential candidates, conduct database searches, input findings and track results.
3. Work with Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer and Online Databases DAILY Work with and directly assist Senior Recruiter on all levels of recruitment from beginning to end.
4. Qualify and pre-screen potential candidates via email or telephone for various high level positions over the phone thoroughly discussing qualifications, past work history and salary.
5. Create and organize job postings Schedule and organize interviews with potential candidates and clients Perform reference and background verification as necessary.

Other administrative and office duties as necessary All candidates MUST have the following experiences to qualify for consideration:

• Bachelor’s Degree REQUIRED - Recent college graduates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Research role.
• Previous experience in Human Resources, Data Entry, Administrative / Admin or Agency Recruiting environment a plus.
• Proven knowledge of Microsoft Office - WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK A MUST
• STRONG ATTENTION TO DETAIL
• Must enjoy working on the computer doing various searches(keyword, Boolean, etc.)for several hours at a time Previous Internet Research on major job boards a plus.
• Type AT LEAST 50 WPM
• Ability to review job descriptions and resumes to determine a good fit with clients.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment Self-motivated and able to assist in making job placements
• Highly organized and able to prioritize work with limited guidance Ability to communicate with potential candidates on the phone.

If you do not have experience in the above areas, do NOT apply for this position.

WHAT WE OFFER

Excellent compensation including base plus regular bonuses Flex Hours Business Casual attire + FREE snacks.  If you are LOCAL AND meet ALL of the requirements, please forward a copy of your resume in WORD format  to Harry.Joiner [at] Gmail.com

ZoomInfo: Pro or Con?

BOSTON, MA - California technical recruiter and internet sourcer, Kevin Jenkins, asked the sourcing gang over at RecruitingBlogs.com what they make of ZoomInfo.  Kevin's question:  ZoomInfo, pro or con?

Here's my answer:

Zoom is very useful for senior executive level searches in industries that are outside of the recruiter's normal area of expertise.  For example, I am an ecommerce marketing recruiter, but I was able to build a very compelling slate of candidates for a Fortune 500 CIO search I handled last year. The winning candidate was a referral, but the two runner ups were from ZoomInfo.

However, I don't do that much work outside of my normal area of expertise.  My inhouse database holds >50,000 ecommerce executives, which is larger than Zoom's.

Also, ZoomInfo is not cheap -- and their reps do not engage in deep discounting.  The company also frowns on group subscriptions (at least in my experience).

And finally, at the time my ZoomInfo account had expired I had >10,000 unused exports in my account. While Zoom was anxious to renew my subscription, getting them to roll-over my exports was not a slam dunk.  I never fully understood this, as these exports had no value to anyone else but me.  But to me, these exports were (and still are) very valuable inventory.

Bottom line: Great tool. Nice people. Not cheap.

Handy Sourcing Tool: Firefox Cheatsheet

Internet sourcing is a ton of work, and I hasten to add that sourcing can be very tedious (which is why many companies outsource it to firms like ours).  But if you can increase your browsing efficiency, then several things can happen:

• The quality of your candidates increases.
• The consistency of your results increases.
• You don't get as burned out in your job as recruiting researcher.

With that in mind, check out Leslie Frank's Firefox Cheatsheet.  It's incredibly handy for recruiting researchers and internet sourcers of all stripes.

Philippe Dauman's Bold Prediction

NEW YORK, NY - Hat tip to Frank Schilling for catching this:  Viacom's CEO, Philippe Dauman, met with  Google executives yesterday.  You might recall that Viacom sued last year for alleged copyright violations on YouTube.  Here's what caught Frank's eye...

clipped from www.businessweek.com Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, whose company sued Google last year for $1 billion for alleged copyright violations on Google's YouTube video sharing site, journeyed into the belly of the beast a few minutes ago. He was, not surprisingly, unapologetic about the suit, which was not popular among the Web digerati.  But in the process of defending his position, he did make it clear that Viacom is betting big on the notion that people online will travel to hundreds of individual Web sites for the content they want to view.

To which Frank blogged, "Not hundreds of sites Mr. Dauman. Millions of small microsites built across tens of millions of domain names."

Can that be?  Well, I just checked: I have 175 RSS feeds in my Bloglines feedreader.  I had no idea it was that many.  Earlier tonight I was setting a taxonomy, or viewing system, for them:

• 10 domaining blogs
• 32 recruiting blogs
• 15 internet sourcing blogs
• 14 HR blogs
• 36 marketing blogs
• etc.

And who knows how many static sites I have bookmarked?  Hundreds more.  And I have several thousand resumes and other files on my hard drive -- all of which my Copernic toolbar has spidered.

Plus I use Gmail.  There are 6500 email messages archived there.  And Gmail is going to start offering 5G of email storage.  Three questions:

1. How much information do you think I consume?
2. How much do you think Google knows about me?
3. How many people could say the same things about themselves?

I'm average.  Maybe a little above in terms of my information consumption.  But Frank is absolutely right that there will be tens of millions of microsites.  One for every person, perhaps.  And then some.  I simply cannot see it any other way.

What will that mean for internet sourcing?

Internet Sourcing Blog

ATLANTA, GA - My name is Harry Joiner, and I'm a marketing recruiter based in Atlanta, GA.  Today I'm introducing my new weblog, called Internet Sourcing.com.  I'm of the belief that sourcing is going to be one of the biggest drivers of change in the recruiting industry over the next decade.  Many people debate the value of a management recruiter, but nobody ever debates the value of a great sourcer.

In the days before the worldwide web, finding a great candidate was like finding a needle in a haystack.  In the internet, it's more like finding a needle in a stack of needles.

Tune in every few days to see what's happening in the world of internet sourcing.  And who knows?  We both might pick up a few tips as I interview some of the sourcing industry's brightest stars.

Gotta question?  Drop me a line, or simply leave a comment below.