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Permalink Reply by Slouch on January 13, 2008 at 3:39pm

Have you tried 3x5 cards lately?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Jenkins on January 13, 2008 at 3:43pm

What do 3x5 cards have to do with recruiting software?

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Permalink Reply by Slouch on January 13, 2008 at 4:38pm

It was a joke

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Permalink Reply by Simon Benford-Blows on January 21, 2008 at 9:50am

Kevin, feel free to look at http://www.chameleoni.com its very new and was designed for recruiters. True ondemand web-based recruitment software and is doing extremely well in fact is finalist for best technical innovation award for 2008.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Houston on January 23, 2008 at 7:28am

Hi Simon,

I can sympathise with your comments. We are not in the "Recruitment" sector, our software products are focused towards temporary staff agencies.

The reason for my comment was that we sell our software on a monthly license fee basis with no upfront costs purely because things seem to change so frequently that all our customers want continuous changes to our product as new legislation comes in, or the way people work changes. So if they were to buy a boxed product, their business would start to struggle after a year as they could no longer support the latest legislative requirements.

Just my two pence worth :)

Good luck in your search!

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Permalink Reply by Rithesh Nair on January 31, 2008 at 11:41am

Broadlook, infogist/Oxygen,resumegrabber,copernic,mailing softwares(look for freeware...many available) or gammadyne .....

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Permalink Reply by mark waldin on August 25, 2008 at 4:50pm

I have developed some recruiting software that I am now putting into alpha test. I am looking for someone recruiting for a 200+ person company that may be interested in experimenting.

The goal of the software is to radically improve the quality of submitted resumes.

If you are interested please email me at markwaldin@verizon.net

thanks.

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Permalink Reply by pam claughton on August 25, 2008 at 5:06pm

Kevin,

What are you looking for the software to do? I use cbiz and love it. It's simple, but that's the beauty of it. It does everything the more complicated ones do, such as bulk mailing to cands/clients, searching the database, downloading hundreds of resumes with one click...

What else are you looking for recruiting software to do?

~Pam

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Permalink Reply by Irina Shamaeva on August 25, 2008 at 6:10pm

Hi Kevin,

I think Broadlook software is the single best tool for sourcing. Broadlook Diver costs money and though I hate spending money on this kind of products (since there's so much free stuff out there), I think it's a great value.

Here is a FREE license to the Contact Capture (normally worth around $200 I think) and a free trial of the Diver tool http://www.broadlook.com/braingain
Diver does parse resumes, too but it does more than just that.

Read more about Diver and see some sample Boolean searches in my last night's blog post
http://thetalentbuzz.com/2008/08/i-disagree-with-donato-diorio

As you, I dislike bad/unconventional/inconvenient UI. (I used to be a front-end software engineer in my past life.) Broadlook products satisfy my taste for a clean UI.

Thanks,
Irina Shamaeva,
Partner,
Brain Gain Recruiting http://www.braingainrecruiting.com
irina@braingainrecruiting.com
office (510) 233-9493
cell (415) 699-9841
View my profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva

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Permalink Reply by Stephen on August 25, 2008 at 6:18pm

I like Rithesh's answer below. Some of the items he mentions are good tools. We use a SaaS setup where I work, and I have worked primarily SaaS packages (Bullhorn, Sendouts to name a couple). I would be curious to learn what you choose because a a few independent recruiters have recently asked me this question.

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Permalink Reply by Shane McCusker on February 9, 2010 at 8:07am

Depends on what you are trying to do. I develop software to help find better candidates, spot opportunities and generally try and allow recruiters to work smarter. That said, it is not for everyone.

I am speaking at the truLondon event next week on this very topic and have written a blog discussing some thoughts.

Shane

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Permalink Reply by Riz Ham on February 9, 2010 at 12:46pm

I develop software to help find better candidates
http://www.eliteflyers.com/

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