Weeding through Candidate Chaff

All of the good online job sites offer resume search as an added bonus for employers and recruiters. Sometimes the resume search is part of the cost of placing the job ad, and sometimes it’s an added feature that an employer can purchase. Typically, resume search can produce many thousands of resumes in the major national or international career sites, as most resume databases are free for the job seeker.

The top three career sites offer hundreds of thousands of resumes in each of their databases. While this may seem impressive the fact is that this sort of resume search can be a time consuming and non-productive disaster for an employer who has little time to do her or his own narrowing and weeding out.

The best resume search services online allow the employer either to narrow the search by specifying and limiting the qualifications, locations or experience, or lets the employer manage his or her own account from the moment the ad is placed.

Some sites, for instance - especially those of some of the largest newspapers - let an employer set up pre-qualifying questions sometimes before the application process is allowed. Others let the employer set up e-mail alerts when the sites automated system does its own resume search and finds suitable candidates.

On one international career site the resume search is an additional purchase for the advertising employer or recruiter. Here the employer can take one free test drive to see what the results of a resume search could produce, and then can purchase resume search access within 100 miles of the employer’s location or nationally. The time periods for the resume search subscription on this site are access for two weeks, one month, three months, six months or an entire year.

Two-week access to this resume search, with a maximum view of 400 resumes, is $500 to do a resume search within 100 miles of the employer’s zip code. To extend the resume search during that same two-week period to a national search of up to 500 resumes would raise the cost to $950. That same $950 cost could instead deliver up to 3000 resume viewings for one month in the local 100-mile radius. The most costly, but actually the best deal, is to purchase a one-year resume search. Locally, with a maximum of a massive 60,000 resumes would be $5700. To search nationally, again for up to 60,000 resumes, the cost would be $8900.

If you prefer you can combine a job posting with a resume search. The special offer on this site is for one sixty day posting of a recruitment advertisement and combine that with two-week access of the resume database within 100 miles. The total of this resume search and job posting combination package is $795.

If you have problems accessing the resume database or conducting an effective resume search, help is available from this site 24 hours seven days a week. You can get help in your resume search by e-mailing, through a live chat or by calling the job site’s toll free number.

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