Pulling two threads together
With the launch of Google’s latest efforts to socialize the web–Google Plus–there have been a lot of changes across the board. A few weeks ago core apps like Google Calendar and Google Docs got a face lift, as did the Google Search page and a number of product pages as well.
No doubt in the coming weeks we will have to recalibrate a few things. In the meantime, the iGoogle set-up files for anyone who wants a recruiter-specific template have been updated too.
A number of new custom search engines have been added under the Sourcing tab and some new finds have been added to the Lookups tab. The Video tab has been expanded to include a lot more tutorials from favorites like Ryan Leary [BooleanBar.com], Chris Hoyt [RecruiterGuy], Jim Stroud, Bill Radin and others.
One of the advantages of G-Recruiting, and cloud recruiting in general, is the ability to share and collaborate. Because data is stored in the cloud anyone who has a link, permission and internet access can find, share, edit, publish and file anything — everything from a job description to a full-blown site, landing page and apply online to boot. Because changes are made in realtime the pain of emailing stuff back and forth can be avoided. No more worrying about who has which version, or where you filed that precious document. It is also an efficient way to manage large volumes of data, like resumes.
One of the disadvantages, at least for people habituated to Microsoft, is having to figure out how to do stuff that is second nature in a new system like Google. Not that it is that hard, Google has addressed that and more with Google Cloud for Microsoft Office.
In answer to a question posed on the G-Recruiters’ Forum, how to copy the custom settings and add-ons that come with the G-Recruiters’ Dashboard [Firefox Portable] to a local installation of the Pale Moon browser.
A decent step-by-step slide-show from Kaspersky Lab’s Security News Service: Threatpost.
Make sure you read the comments before changing anything! Some excellent points are made, not clearing out your web history being a case in point. Remember, Firefox add-ons like Location Bar pull data from your history.
I also happen to like the presentation format. I will be experimenting with something similar for a few of the G-Recruiter tutorials…stay posted for that.
One of the drawbacks with using Gmail as a resume database is that you cannot search within attached PDF and Word docs. For small numbers of resumes there are a simple ways to overcome this using Google Docs. However, the problem is a real issue when uploading large numbers of resumes from your computer.
There is little to no point bulk uploading documents to Gmail if you cannot search for them later. The easiest way to deal with this is to convert them to a searchable format beforehand, either text or HTML formats.
There is no shortage of bulk converters out there. Many are free and do a passable job. I’ve tested a lot of free PDF2TXT and PDF2HTML converters. The ones that cost $200 plus may be worth every penny. That depends on what you need
Since Google made changes to its search engine results page recently it seems the frequency of it’s CAPTCHA page blocking advance search queries has become a problem for a lot of people.
UPDATE: Unzipping the files should no longer be a problem. Everything is good…
A few people have experienced problems unzipping the G-Recruiters’ Dashboard. They either get locked up when extracting the files or they are asked for passwords for certain files. This typically happens when they are using a program like WinZip or WinRAR. I suspect I know what the problem is but I don’t know how to fix it.
If you use the Windows default program to decompress the files it seems there are no problems. The majority of people follow the instructions and everything works fine. But if you hit a snag, the following is for you…
One of the advantages of G-Recruiting, and 
