This posting is probably applicable only to contract recruiters, and people who are doing contingent placements on the side. About 6 months ago, I was trying to figure out away, to store all of the resumes I found, for future use. I did not like the idea, of keeping them on my computer, because of the hassles of transferring so many resumes to my computer, and then later using a client’s computer, and not having access to all of those resumes I saved. It also seemed redundant to always be starting over from square one with each new req, I got. I also am not yet ready to put down a large sum of money for an ATS system of my own, or pay a monthly fee. My resolution to this issue is Google Docs.

With Google Docs. I can upload multiple resumes at one time, through a special email address, when used in conjunction with the Google Toolbar, if I open a word doc that appeared through a Boolean search, that doc is automatically uploaded into Docs for me. I can search all of the resumes by using key word search (Perl, PHP, "Software Engineer") to pull up only the ones that are applicable. This beats reinventing the wheel because I always have a starting point from which to begin my search, I can access Docs from any computer in the world, and it is "FREE".

This was my solution. Let me know what you think and what solutions you may have come up with.