AIRS Announces New Generation Of Candidate-Hunting Web Tools
AIRS today announced the market launch of AIRS SearchStation, a new set of Web-based data mining tools that recruiters and employers will use to find candidates among the 90 million people using the Net this year.
"SearchStation is the first generation of a toolset we're building to automate the candidate-hunting strategies we teach in our AIRS I and AIRS II Internet recruitment seminars," says Michael Foster, CEO of AIRS. " These tools will greatly simplify the process of finding candidates by providing an intuitive interface to an underlying layer of complex, dynamic Boolean and search command strings, pre-loaded to run on the best search and meta-search tools on the Net." AIRS is known for its groundbreaking work in adapting search engine features to find people where they work, play and gather on the Internet.
SearchStation is based on methodologies developed and refined in over two years of research and real-market testing by AIRS, in conjunction with their customers and alumni. Underlying search technologies are supplied by FlipSearch, a meta-tool that acts as the product interface to AltaVista, HotBot, Snap, Northern Light and other search engines AIRS teaches in its two-day seminars.
The new AIRS search tools should not be confused with "resume robots" that are programmed to visit free resume banks on the WWW and in Usenet. The SearchStation applications are data mining tools, designed to sail past career sites and resume databanks onto the Net itself--to find candidates hidden in virtual communities, ISPs, online services and inside the Web servers of over 500,000 companies, colleges and organizations on the Web.
AIRS candidate data-mining tools are addressing a completely new market. Most recruiters and employers think of Internet Recruitment in terms of posting jobs and looking for resumes at established career sites like Monster.com or Headhunter.net. But, according to Stewart Morris of Stewart Morris Associates, an executive search firm in Los Angeles, California: "The power of AIRS SearchStation is that it allows us to uncover and contact the millions of professionals who aren't surfing job postings, or even looking for a new position--until we approach them with our client's opportunity."
"Automating the complex search strategies taught by AIRS will be a killer-app for recruiters fighting to find passive candidates in this highly competitive recruitment market," says Chris Jordan of RD Raab and Co., a recent AIRS alumni and SearchStation Beta tester. "It simply doesn't make sense to compete with thousands of other recruiters for the tiny supply of candidates looking for work at career sites when SearchStation takes me to high-value people my competitors don't know are there."
AIRS SearchStation tools can be accessed via the AIRS Directory home page at http://www.airsdirectory.com.
FlipSearch is a subsidiary of Pacific Educational Products (PEP), a technology and software development company founded in 1995. PEP specializes in Web-based applications aimed at a variety of vertical markets including education, advertising and recruitment.
Founded in 1997, AIRS is the largest provider of Internet recruitment training services worldwide. AIRS Seminars, Corporate Training and Search Guide publications have helped over 3500 clients in high-growth companies and recruitment organizations define their active sourcing strategies via the World Wide Web. AIRS vertical portal at www.airsdirectory.com has become the starting point for hunting tens of millions of passive candidates hidden on the Net.