Subscribe to our newsletter. The Internet has transformed employee recruiting practices, and savvy job searchers are applying new techniques to make sure they reach the attention of recruiters. These new recruiting practices emerged when the Internet became a useful tool for headhunters searching for candidates during a tight labor market. In addition to traditional search activities like offline researching and networking, recruiters applied sophisticated yet amazingly simple techniques on the Web.
Recruiters look for electronic resumes on the Web that have live links to a specific company.
So, if a recruiter is looking for people who, for example, worked for Ford Motor Company and your electronic resume has a link to this company, your resume will appear in the search. Lessons for International Job Searchers Create a personal web page that includes an electronic version of your resume. Your electronic resume should include links to companies that you have worked for, universities you have attended, and any other key organizations with which you have an affiliation. Optimize your web page for search engines. Make sure your web pages have all meta tags appropriately filled in.