Web CV capture tools

[Nick Turner]

Does anyone have experience of these tools (eg ResumeFinder, ResumeForensics, eGrabber etc), and any comments on success? These tools are all US and I'm not sure of their effectiveness in EMEA.
Nick

[Ted Meulenkamp]

Hi Nick, I see you managed to post the message. I haven't got any experience with these types of tools but I had a quick look at eGrabber and it seems to me that they might work in EMEA as well. There might be an issue with some formats and fields (state etc) but the resumegrabber might be worth a try especially if it would work with your ATS.

Let me know if you test these tools, I'm surely interested in learning more.

cheers

Ted

[Tim Jones]

Hi Nick, long time no speak, hope all is well!

I used these with you at Cisco, can't remember the name of the tool I used but I found that actually it worked pretty well.
Let's be clear there seem to be two elements, display of the data and capture of CVs from sources, which is just technical, then there is the parsing of the data so its useful to you.

There has been a great deal of growth in the parsing technologies used both in these grabbers and in general CV parsing. I believe they work on the same basic premise, using maths type logic to determine experience levels etc based on key dates added to the CV.

You then decide whether you buy these single function tools that grab the CV data and help you organise it OR try and find an ATS that already has the technology included as part of your license cost.

I only have experience of Burning Glass in ATS and this system does some really neat reverse matching that I am guessing the more basic resume catch tools won't do, e.g. I have a job so please find me the top candidates in my database that match it, and not just on keywords but on career progression, industry etc...or I have a great CV already hired by the company please find my CVs that clone this new hire....

In my experience the mostly commonly marketed tools we see are US based and so of course the parsing and training of the engines works on US and UK English files the best, but you can find EU based tools that work just as well and recognise other formats of CV.

e.g.
http://www.textkernel.com in NL
I have heard of a French one also....

But as the parsing is the essential element I think this works pretty well in most contexts....you just need to "train" the parser sometimes before it can be really effective,

Cheers, hope this helps
Tim

[Nick Turner]

Hey Tim, great to hear from you! I hear you went to Siemens, got married, blah blah!

So I bought eGrabber in the end (cheap), seems to work but am having strife getting it to formulate into xls docs - will have to get the Yanks on to it

We should catch up...

Nick