Broadlook Diver Rocks

Last week, as part of the Wisconsin Professional Recruiters Resource series, we were lucky to have Donato Diorio agree to come and give us a presentation on "10 Ways Technology Can Double Your Billings," a preview of a keynote he will be giving for NAPS.

As an additional treat, we got to take a look at the newly unveiled Diver application from Broadlook. Diver is a standalone app that is, essentially, a specialized browser. It includes several preset search engines into which you enter your standard sorts of search strings for skill sets, company names, and so on, except that you really don't need to get too fancy about boolean expressions designed to net you only resumes. The engine itself finds either resumes or contact information for people matching your search criteria and parses them into a handy spreadsheet-looking window in the bottom of the browser. Those results can then be exported into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet--instant call list.

It's a cool app and I want to do more with it, but it does seem to be having some issues running on Windows Vista, so I'll probably need to download it on another trial sometime soon.