Recruiters are no strangers to getting smothered by unsolicited e-mails. Here’s a simple tip to help manage the flood.
One common pain is unsolicited resumes, or at least unwanted resumes for jobs you’ve advertised.
The trouble, though is that you want resumes to come in, and the only way to find out what’s junk is to read them. The key is getting organized so that task is easier.
One way to do that is to have your IT department set up a new inbox for each open position. For example, if you’re hiring a sales employee, you can have e-mails sent to sales@yourcompany.com.
Then you’ll have an automatic way of organizing resumes by position. You can either log in to each individual e-mail account, or IT can most likely set them to route messages right into your normal inbox. Then when you look at your main inbox, you can arrange messages by name in the “To:” field (in Outlook and most other e-mail clients, anyway) and organize them that way.
This technique will also help you limit spam, since your regular address will no longer appear on job postings across the Internet.
