Recruiting on the Web : Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidate [Paperback]

Michael Foster (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 23, 2002

Recruiting on the Web is the most comprehensive and advanced guide to Internet recruiting available anywhere.  It explains the best practices, creative ideas and recruiting tools used by the most forward-looking companies and professional recruiters to lower their recruiting costs, slash cycle time, and hire the very best candidates via the Web.

Recruiting on the Web will help recruiters and Human Resources professionals plan a Web-based recruiting campaign to quickly fill a position with the right candidate. It will also help managers, executives, and small-business owners save thousands of dollars in advertising costs by taking charge of their own hiring process, using the power of the Web.

Readers will learn to:

• Organize inexpensive but highly effective job posting campaigns
• Select, evaluate and post to the best niche job boards
• Work more successfully with Monster.com, HotJobs, CareerBuilder
• Find candidates hidden in companies, universities, and organizations
• Build a recruiting Web site
• Find great diversity candidates using the Web
• Build a Web-based employee referral system
• Build a Web-based college recruiting plan
• And much more

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Praise For Michael Foster's company, AIRS:

"FLIPPING. PEELING. X-RAYING. Sounds like what chefs and radiologists do, right? These are also some of the ingenious tricks executive headhunters use in the age of digital resumes and electronic job searches. AIRS is one of a few firms at the forefront of the burgeoning specialty of Internet recruitment training."--Wall Street Journal

"Michael Foster is the pioneering thought leader of the on-line recruiting process. He has married his understanding of the Internet, technology and process--with a keen understanding of marketing dynamic. Mike's work has dramatically impacted the use of the Internet as a recruitment intelligence and sourcing tool."--Arthur Young, CEO, Recruiter Magazine and Recruiter.com

Powerful new ways to find the best talent online

To compete for the best job candidates, you must recruit successfully on the Net. No other medium lets you search of hundreds of resume banks at once, or go straight to candidates with the precise skills you're seeking. Recruiting on the Web is a hands-on guide to firing up your browser and finding the perfect candidates quickly and cheaply--no matter where they may be hiding.

Author Michael Foster is the founder and CEO of AIRS, the Internet recruitment training company worldwide. In this book he explains how to create a cutting-edge recruiting strategy and system that will slash costs, streamline your hiring process, and attract top talent. You'll discover the latest tactics for posting job openings online, how to search effectively through millions of resumes, and ways to advertise and search in Web communities and forums. Foster explains how to find active job seekers as well as the most desirable catches of all--the silent, "passive" candidates.

Any manager can learn the new rules of Web recruiting with this step-by-step guide--and use them to:

• Tailor online searches to peruse hundreds of thousands of personal Web pages
• Utilize new strategies for posting jobs to get maximum results at the lowest cost
• Infiltrate corporate sites with ingenious--and legal--techniques to uncover choice resumes and hot candidates

About the Author

Michael E. Foster, author of Recruiting on the Web, is the founder and CEO of AIRS (Advanced Internet Recruitment Strategies), the largest Internet recruitment training company worldwide, and originator of many of the most successful Web recruiting techniques in use today. Since 1997, AIRS has trained more than 30,000 recruiting professionals (from small organizations, to over 60% of the Fortune 500 companies) craft their Internet recruiting strategies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071384855
• ISBN-13: 978-0071384858
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #430,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Best of an Indeterminate Breed, July 15, 2006

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John P Bernat (Kingsport, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recruiting on the Web : Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidate (Paperback)

I have assigned this book to my graduate students in a Staffing class. I would not have assigned it if I did not think it was a good book.

However, I find myself telling them a few cautionary things:

1. Two weeks after the book came out, it was out of date. This field is moving very, very quickly and keeping up is a real chore...

2. The author is breathless and shameless in self-promotion. His writing style will remind you of why the dot-com bubble burst.

3. Many assertions are not backed up with organized study or proof.

4. It's still the best book I know of to cover this topic, unfortunately. If anybody out there knows of a better or more contemporary one, please post a review here...

13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Give me a break!, October 18, 2003

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Rob Sayer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recruiting on the Web : Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidate (Paperback)

Sorry everyone but I have been recruiting for over 8 years and this book is literally NOTHING NEW!!!! Please save your money on the training and the book. SORRY! You would be better off investing in a years worth of service from a company that has a really good search engine that really does about the same thing. Plus, now adays you can't get into the sites like you used to anyway so 1/2 of this stuff is totally out dated! I feel totally ripped off. If you know just the basics of the web you can still figure the stuff out in this book on your own on some free recruiting sites.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recruiting on the Web, May 1, 2010

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This review is from: Recruiting on the Web : Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidate (Paperback)

Well written and a valuable tool for anyone looking to hire individuals for their organization