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I spent some time trying Autosearch, a web-based application that simplifies search, available for a trial at www.getautosearch.com
The goal of the application is to make searching for candidates and for relevant information simple. If you are someone who is not excited about playing with complex Google or Yahoo search syntax and Boolean operators and are not interested in filtering out resumes from all the results you get, this application might be for you. It provides results of certain kinds based on your keywords: resumes, profiles etc. It can limit searching to just one site, or "blogs", or "alumni sites" etc. It can look within specific geography. If you do want to use Boolean syntax you are free to do so in the keyword window and it will be included in the site's logic. However the real search is hidden (say, unlike the way eGrabber's ResumeFinder does it - there you see the exact string and can edit it to your liking), so you are not quite in control of the search that is being executed - which might be a good thing as long as you get good results fast. (In the end, you are not in control of what Google does either, right?)
I really liked the site's user interface. It is very clean and makes it easy to understand. I recommend trying the product out. For tools like this it makes sense to do a trial run with your own searches to decide whether it's beneficial. They have a straightforward pricing at $100 per month (which seems "nicer" to me than the $30/month fee for Talenthook that comes with $1 or $3 per search, plus an initiation fee).
I imagine as the software develops further they will improve their algorithms, expand/adjust the list of sites to look for profiles and perhaps add an integrated parsing tool. The danger would be to lose the simplicity while adding new options but with the skillfully built UI this might not be an issue.
-Irina http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva
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Here's a clickable link for you: GetAutoSearch
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Hi Mohamed,
I tried your tool and it seems to return jobs as well as candidates. Is there anyway you can restrict it just to candidates?
Cheers, Carly
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CVfox does not provide you the right results. And I wouldn't pay Autosearch for executing Boolean search strings.
Available for free to all recruiters is big5hire.com it provides you resumes from cragislist, linkedin, search engines, name generations from mailing lists, user groups, social networking sites.
I will be the first one to admit the UI is not that great but I am working on it and soon everyone will be a able to enjoy a great site with a large passive candidate database.
Mohamed Ali Career Services Manager, Cisco Systems mohamali@cisco.com
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Another tool that is FREE cvfox.com. It searches Jigsaw, RYZE, Spoke, Xing etc. I seemed to get similar results that I did in the trial. Where I didn't have results w/ some of the Autosearch openings, I found on CVFox. Again, on both you still have legwork to do but it is free so you can spend the money on postings to gather candidates if you would like vs. search tools. I am due to try out Sharkstrike also which is also a FREE cv tool.
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Why pay for something that we give away for free?
http://tinyurl.com/4fso9l
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Checkout ReferYes Sourcer at:
http://referyes.com/source_people.htm
It's an automated sourcing tool to find
resumes and candidate profiles on online social networks and search engines.
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