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One recruiting software company is making it easier for trucking companies to find job candidates.

Tentstreet, which supplies services designed to help truck fleets manage human resources and driver pools, is offering a small business edition of its software. According to Truck News, the Basic Version, which is available free-of-charge, provides fleets with 200 or fewer trucks with basic functions needed to improve driver recruitment.

“Hundreds of thousands of drivers have used this technology, which was previously available only to the larger carriers,” Craig Johnson, chief executive officer of Tenstreet, said in the article. “Now anyone can use it, and we decided now would be a great time to make this available. That’s because we are doing this, in part, to support the smaller carriers that need a better way to recruit drivers but can’t afford it in this down economy.”

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With unemployment on the rise, the employment market is oversaturated with people hoping to find work. Because of this, many hiring managers are finding themselves overwhelmed with resumes. This means that they are wasting valuable time on the wrong candidates, when they could be attracting the right ones.
In hopes of helping HR departments do just this, recruiting software provider VCG recently announced the newest addition to their line of products, Pointwing version 1.4. This program is expected to make attracting new workers easier and faster, both of which HR mangers will be happy for.

One of the new additions to Pointwing 1.4 is a Job Publisher application, which many users will be pleased with. Instead of taking the time to handle each individual site, this recruiting software speeds up the process by announcing available positions on multiple job boards at the same time. This not only increases the amount of exposure that each job gets but also saves much needed time.

Resumes from applicants who choose to apply online are then immediately available in Pointwing. The applicant tracking portion of this recruiting software then enables the user to search through candidates using a variety of parameters to find the best matches for their companies. In addition to this, the user is able to monitor each job board’s performance and ROI.

In addition to these new features on VCG’s Pointwing, there is also Resume Sourcer. This gives users the ability to send a “spider” crawling through job sites online in search of the best workers. It looks over resumes posted on the Internet and returns those that best match the user’s search criteria. Instead of having an employee scour the web in hopes of finding the right passive job seeker, Pointwing enables workers to be freed up for more important tasks.

“The integration of Pointwing Job Publisher and Pointwing Resume Sourcer are further evidence of the growth of Pointwing as a comprehensive recruiting and staffing tool for success,” said Steve Taylor, VCG’s President and CEO in a recent press release. “The Internet gives recruiters and staffing company’s broad access to an ocean of data. What we’ve done is enable them to leverage that access and use it or filter the data to their ends. That reduces the time and effort that recruiters have to spend finding qualified candidates and ultimately means a faster, more successful and profitable placement.”

VCG has been in the business of helping businesses sine 1976. A variety of Pointwing producats are available through their website, including Front Office, Self Service, and the Software Kit.

A recent survey of applicant tracking system users showed that many aren’t using the systems to their full potential.

The survey, completed by participants at the 2008 Taleo World User’s Conference, asked respondents to explore their practices regarding the candidate experience, tracking and reporting on 120-day turnover, according to an article by Talent Management.

The results found that 72 percent of respondents don’t know the cost of on-boarding for their highest-turnover position and 86 percent of respondents aren’t asking candidates about their online employment application experience.

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