I have come across this site with some useful information and thought I’d pass it on.

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Resume Databases vs. Cold Calling and Referral Recruiting: Resume Database Recruiting vs. Cold Calling and Referral Recruiting

Candidate identification is perhaps the most critical step in the human capital supply chain – you can’t acquire and hire someone you haven’t found and identified in the first place. While many people have their opinions about the pros and cons of cold calling, referral recruiting, and resume database sourcing and recruiting, my experience has shown me that properly and effectively leveraging resume databases (internal and/or online) can enable recruiters to more quickly produce a high volume of well matched and qualified candidates in response to manager/client Pull than any other method of candidate identification and acquisition.  This is primarily due to the inherent high degree of control over critical candidate variables that using Boolean strings to search resume databases affords sourcers and recruiters. …

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