Resume Screening

Online recruitment services can perform resumé screening for you, which allows you and/or your human resource department to focus on other important issues. Many human resource departments are not equipped to deal with the volume of resumés they receive on a daily basis. A portion of these resumés are in response to job advertisements, but a good portion of them are also unsolicited.

This obviously makes for a lot of extra work that cannot be dealt with accordingly due to lack of manpower. Until recently, companies just had to try to muscle through it all, little by little tackling the stacks of mailed applications. Fortunately, the Web has made it possible for companies to get some much-needed help, without spending a fortune.

In fact, online recruiting services oftentimes do not charge any fees upfront. Instead, they charge a nominal fee if, and only if, a candidate is successfully matched with an employer. It is the employer that pays this fee to the recruitment service for assisting them with their search for qualified candidates. Resumé screening is often the very first step in this process, which when done correctly, can match up candidates with employers much more expeditiously.

Screening for Predicted Job Success

Most online recruiting agencies screen resumés by asking job seekers to fill out questionnaires that better categorize them according to skill, career goals, and education. Once this is determined, resumés are added to a database, where employers can find them by searching by category. The whole process is much less time consuming for both the employer and the job seeker, as they have tools at their fingertips that allow them to perform more focused searches.