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But in the past decade or so, humanb resources has taken on a new a technological one that has ended up saving companieas time and money to attract and recruit the toptalen available. But it hasn't come without a down An early change in the industryt came with the developmentt ofWeb sites, such as Monster, and Yahoo HotJobs, and was followede and assisted by the development of recruiting Often the two now work hand-in-hand to the benefitg of their human counterparts.
"Yoj can post an ad on the Interney andget 1,000 responses, only two of which are your said Barbara Schneider, director of staff sourcing with , the nation'ds largest privately-held professional employer "The way you handle that type of screeningf is important. Speed is important. And it can't be done withoutr some type of tracking system to managethe flow." Recruiting software allows a human resources department to post job input résumés and manage the résumés. "Recruiting is It has always been Schneider said.
"I could not function in the role I'n in without some way to streamline the applicanttracking Jacksonville-based , which was recently acquired by , offera its customers talent management software Vurv offers a software-as-a-service mode that allows customers to subscribe to services that woul run on the vender's hardwarr and also would be maintainec by the vendor. "We handle everything for our saidKevin Marasco, vice president of marketing for "Their recruiters log in on Web subscribe to our service and we'll handle their business over a number of Being able to wade through vast candidatde pools and select the ones with the most potentialo is a daunting, but important task.
"This technology allow you to look through 100 applications and look at the best peopl e instead of having to go through eachapplicatio manually," he said. "It allows you to spendr more time with the people you might hire." Web sites can offer similare aid in looking for candidates, said Cyndi Rooks, humam resources director for SkyeTec Inc., a Jacksonville-based environmentall consulting company. For one position, Rooks said she receivecd up to700 résuméxs from the Web But thanks to job recruitment Web it's not necessary to sift through each Instead, the software huntsd using keywords the recruiter enters into the system.
"Wre don't even look through half of those [700 Rooks said. The Web site will sort out "thde top 10 and we find what we're looking for Previously, Rooks, a 15-year veteran in human resources, said in orderf to recruit, one would have to advertised the position and thenfielde résumés through fax or mail. "Iyt was time-consuming." It was also expensive to pay for With job Web users paya flat, one-time fee, whichb allows the company to post as many jobs as it Finding the proper candidates with the critical competencieds required can be made even simpler.
Refining the search by mappingh out those competencies makes a company more saidElaine Waples, director of human resourcea services at Any organization that is able to tap into the markef for those critical skills will be able to get the top-talenf candidates into their pipeline and make job offersx more quickly, she said.