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Mark E. Berger, CPC, AIRS CIR
Swat Recruiting
314-962-7515
http://www.swatrecruiting.com
DIVER by Broadlook
Looks like the people at Broadlook Technologies have another winner on their hands. I was happy to be able to download and test drive their latest offering to the recruiter community, DIVER. Broadlook, a company whose products have appeared in this column many times over the years continues to serve this community by offering products and services that make us more and
more productive.
DIVER, simply put, is a search engine interface. You still run your own searches in Google, Yahoo, AllTheWeb, and/or AltaVista but your results are all parsed for you into a grid. Once in the grid the results are easily accessible by double-clicking on the line entry. The actual results page is visible from within the program. This feature saves any sourcer all the time it normally takes to click on one result at a time, review the result, then click back to the main results page. Literally hours if you do a lot of this type of work. Once you have the results from a search in the DIVER grid, you can filter the results and keep only those that have some type of contact information, the export your results to any number of destinations including documents, contact managers, or even ATS's.
Aside from locating resumes on the search engines, DIVER has another service I wanted to mention. They have built in strings for Specialty Searches that make it easy for you to find information on Companies, Lists, Member Directories, Persons, Trade Shows, Org Charts, and/or Associations. All you have to do is add a name or keyword or two and DIVER does the rest.
DIVER is a very simple program and easy to learn and use...my favorite kind. You have your projects on the left, complete with a number of examples you can use in your future searches, the search engine results page is on the upper right and the grid is on the bottom of the screen. It allows you to take advantage of search strings offered by industry experts, or you can build your own searches and save them in project folders, as many as you like. Anyone who has ever had AIRS training or any other advanced search string training should take a look at this product. DIVER can take what someone learns with search string training and take their productivity to the next level.
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