Email Resume Database- How to build your Resume Database using AI in 2024
What is an Email Resume Database?
An Email Resume database is a database built from your email.
Recruiters have a lot of resumes in their emails. These are typically lost in the email and are very hard to be organized into systems. There have been multiple ways to build your own personal resume database from your email and has been becoming easier with evolving technology. Recruiters spend a lot of time curating and receiving these resumes. And yet, when a new opening comes up, they end up looking for resumes in their job boards which turns out to be very expensive. This often means they are wasting away their passive resume database which could be worth a lot of time and money. Here is an article on what is the value of the Passive Resume database. Most of a recruiters passive resume database is either in their Email or in their Desktops. Here is a history of how you could oraganize and search through them.
How it was Done in the past
You probably did one of these to organise your resumes from your emails in the past
Before 2015: Create folders in your email account specifically for storing resumes and dragged attachments in. Manually add to excel sheets
Drawbacks:
- extremely time intensive,
- prone to human errors,
- have to do across multiple inboxes,
- duplicate issues.
- Will have to manually parse resumes.
Time Estimate for 50k resumes in your inbox : 8400 hours = ~1050 man days
Before 2024: Using traditional recruitment systems/ ATS to add a candidate into the system through a gmail/ chrome extension(with automated parsing)
Drawbacks:
- have to do one at a time,
- have to do across multiple inboxes,
- duplicate issues
Time Estimate for 50k resumes in your inbox : 1680 hours = ~210 man days
How can you build a resume database from your email using AI now in 2024?
In 2024: Tobu is an email resume extractor and database builder.
Tobu automatically identifies all the resumes in your email and parses them into a searchable database. This can be done across multiple email addresses. Tobu Automatically handles duplicate resumes.
Time Estimate for manual effort for 50k resumes in your inbox: 2 minutes
Conclusion
Resumes are valuable, recruiters should make the most of them and Emails are where recruiters have a lot of resumes. We have come a long way in organizing resumes. For the first time ever, a recruiter can start searching all the resumes that they ever received in their email in a matter of minutes.
Tobu’s Email Resume Extractor is a useful tool for recruiters who receive resumes via email. It can scan your inbox and automatically identify, parse, and organize all of the resumes in your email history and going forward. Tobu is currently the only product that can parse your entire email inbox for resumes without the need for manual identification. If you are a recruiter and receive resumes via email, Tobu is a must have and the only Tool of it’s kind in the Global market at the time of writing this article(patent pending).
Go ahead, Sign up for a free trial to extract up to 500 resumes from your Email and experience the results first hand.
You could also a see a video demo of Tobu here. We have also built a Desktop Resume Parser/ Extractor to identify and parse all the resumes from your desktop!