Are you looking for another way to find passive candidates? As a recruiter, who isn’t? Passive-Candidates.com does just that for you. This site is free for recruiters to find resumes that have been posted on the web, usually as personal web pages. The site looks easy to use, and well, it is! As the website says, it’s “The search engine that grows each time it’s searched”.

For every one resume you share with the site, you will get thirty back for free. Here’s how: you do have to do a little work in order to get the thirty free resumes as stated (or less depending on the search results). The site requires you to input the link to a resume that you have found on the Internet (note that your link will be rejected if it is already in their search engine results). If you are doing a search on Google or Yahoo for resumes and come across links, save‚ some results and load‚ them up on Passive-Candidates.com. The resumes that this site gives you in return are ones that have been entered by other recruiters who have used the site before.

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This site represents a great way to stumble upon a personal web page of a person who may have posted their resume a few years back and who isn’t actively job searching and putting their resume on job boards for others to find. Even though you may receive some duplicate or outdated‚ resumes, finding passive candidates in this industry is one of the best ways to recruit. The site also respresents a great way to build up a large personal candidate database for free.

While Internet Explorer is the most widely used web browser on the planet and has the lions share of the market at this point at some 60-70%, Firefox (at close to 15% by some accounts) is in my opinion the best browser. For Recruiters and especially Internet Sourcers and Researchers, Firefox can be used to grab as many resumes as you can take. Think millions if you are ambitious enough!

Firefox has what they call “add-ons” that you can attach to the browser to make searching, bookmarking and other tasks very easy. One add-on in particular I want to show you is called DownThemAll. Let’s say for instance you were doing some boolean searching for resumes using Firefox. Let’s also say that your search string pulls up thousands of resumes. DownThemAll makes it possible to download all items from your search with a few quick clicks. Here is a video example:

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If you are not already signed up for ResumeZapper - do it now! They are a resume distributor for job seekers. Per their website: “If you are a 3rd party recruiter, headhunter, or search firm, now you can receive TARGETED resumes FREE!”

I signed up a few months ago, and receive close to a hundred free resumes every day and it doesn’t cost anything. You can set-up certain criteria, such as which industries, key words or geographic locations you wish to receive, then watch as the resumes roll into your email inbox from there. I recommend creating a rule in outlook or your email service (Outlook example below) to filter the resumes to an electronic folder and get them out of the way of normal daily email. When you want to search across them, simply use your desktop search engine, and search across them for what you are looking for.  

Click the option in Outlook titled “Create Rule”. This is located in the top tool bar.

Click on one of the first resumes you receive by email from ResumeZapper. Check the box “From ResumeZapper” at the top, and the box “Move e-mail to folder” at the bottom and create a new folder in Outlook to put the resumes in.