Improve Productivity with Outlook Training for Recruiters

Working as a recruiter requires excellent time management and multitasking skills. Professional computer trainer and IT consultant Randall Olson shares expert tips regarding how learning how to make the most of Microsoft Outlook can boost productivity and reduce stress.

How can using Microsoft Outlook help recruiting professionals manage their time effectively?

Any tool that helps manage a person’s time and efforts is an asset to both the employee and the employer. These resources can be calendars, a rolodex, or even a to-do list written on a tablet. Unfortunately you then sometimes deal with the aggravation of spend too much time managing the tools you use to manage your time. Examples include: misplacing the to-do list, leaving phone numbers on scratch paper in numerous places, and forgetting to write appointments in the calendar.

This is where Outlook simplifies the process because it helps you manage not only your time but it helps you manage the tools that help you manage the time. Outlook can automate a lot of process for you, like sending reminders, sorting your emails and assigning priority, allowing others to send you appointments so you don’t have remember to write it down. And with the proper training your employees will not only manage their own time more efficiently, they can help manager each other time and to list with the collaboration tools offered in Outlook.

Outlook is the electronic version of an address book, note pad, calendar, emails datbase, and customer contact manager. When employees are trained properly on its uses and capabilities they can truly appreciate its benefits.

Why is it a good idea for recruiters to complete formal Outlook training?

Like many office suite programs developed by Microsoft, Outlook is one that has many capabilities and layers of benefits which most self-taught individuals never get the opportunity to understand or utilize.

Outlook offers time management tool within the program that actually automate many process and provides short cut features to make using it easier and more efficient. The typical self-taught user usually never takes the time or effort to attain this level of proficiency and get the full benefits of the program. Actually in turn this lack of knowledge can lead to the program feeling cumbersome and not very useful.

Formal training offers the end user not only the “how to” but can also provide real world solutions to daily problems. This of course can be a tremendous resource to them and their employer – as well as clients and candidates.

Randall Olson is the Director of Information Technology for Mobile Technical Institute & MTI Business Solutions (http://www.mobiletechwebsite.com). He provides computer training, website development, search engine optimization, email marketing and web hosting http://webshothosting.com/ services for clients throughout the U.S. He also oversees the firm’s Mobile, AL based high-stakes certification testing center and contributes to http://certificationconnection.com.

Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.

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