In use currently by both Manpower, RHI Consulting and 1-800 Network, the basic deal is...submit a resume, get access to professional training. With subjects ranging from JavaScript to Novell certification, the companies increase the quality of candidates obtained from the net while building a solid relationship. We think it's a model with staying power.

The ComputerWorld career website is a delicious spot to look for and discover technical candidates.

The site also features solid articles and reporting for recruiters including:

• What's In a Name, In Case You're Wondering
• Org Chart, Revisited
• Top Techno MBA's
• SAP'ed!! :
  
  Good help is hell to find

  Hello, cruel world

  A good SAP is hard to find

A Modest Proposal

Admittedly, last week's outage was caused by human error at Network Solutions, the company which controls the addressing system for the entire Internet.

It can be argued, quite persuasively in our opinion, that NSI's monopoly of this service is an affront to any free-market economy. Indeed, both AlterNIC and name.space are challenging it in the courts.

Adding insult to injury is NSI's attempt to claim "ownership" of the TLD's "com", "org" and "net", suffixes it holds in the public trust.

Still, the real problem is that the 'Net is simply becoming overloaded, rather like the road systems in most "developed" [sic] countries. Too many people, not enough bandwidth.

We would modestly propose that the time is right for a measure of government control to allow infrastructure to catch up with demand.

Of course, this would be a temporary measure, and would take the following form:

• All "novice users" be restricted to an online service (of choice) only for their first 100 hours;
  
• Having gained access to the Web, novice users would be prohibited from posting a page until they can demonstrate a minimum of 100 hours Websurfing;
  
• First homepages/sites be restricted to 20k;
  
• All image sizes restricted to a maximum of 45k.
  
• A three-month embargo on the development of all new Web applications.

The overseeing body could be administrative rather than legislative, and be under the direct supervision of the Vice President...

Gossip

The ESpan team is expected to remain intact. We hope the marriage works. We are huge fans of the ESpan approach to interface design. There is no other recruiting entity who puts as much passion and intensity into the question.

But, ad agency ownership of publishing entities must leave customers wondering where to turn for an objective view. Certainly, owning online resources must make the newspapers nervous. Still, the bottom line will be the combination of results and relationships.

As the labor shortage escalaes, recruiting costs, online and off, are going to grow in a corresponding fashion. In the early phases of the cost increases, media placement decisions will be subject to increasingly intense scrutiny. The ad agencies who own online distribution vehicles will have to be able to provide solid justification for using in-house resources.

Resume Robot

ITTA has developed a robot for individual use that searches all the Internet resume newsgroups, public domain Web sites, and personal Web sites collecting resumes based on the selection criteria you give it.

The results of the nightly robot run can be delivered by:

• Sending e-mail, containing the resume text;
• Sending a file containing the resumes directly to an FTP site of your choosing; or
• Creating a proprietary searchable database located at ITTA

You can also

• Send automatic e-mail to the resume owners to introduce yourself; and,
• Capture the e-mail addresses for future recruiting campaigns

This pro-active recruiting service puts a company in the forefront of effective and efficient personnel acquisition. It identifies, pre-qualifies and communicates with a potential candidate in one complete operation. ITTA maintains, runs the subscriber's robot, and distributes the results daily in the requested format.

Wow!

Tidbits

The lingua franca of webmasters has undergone a makeover.

HTML 4.0, the next generation of the web's publishing language, has just been released by the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) and has already been accepted by Microsoft, which will make the next version of its Internet Explorer browser compatible with it.

Netscape will doubtless follow - ignoring HTML (hypertext markup language) would be like suddenly deciding that Urdu is actually much more practical than English - and users will soon benefit from an array of improvements, including keyboard shortcuts built into page controls, read-only documents that cannot be copied and more friendly interface for blind users.

The ranks of sites that combine web advertising and real life job fairs has grown by one. Career Shop. Their services (in 38 regional markets) include an interesting radio package:

• Your company name in 20-35+ 60 second radio spots. Click here for radio station info;
• Your company's logo icon on the "LOCAL Online Job Fair" page of your choice that links to your job postings on Career Shop, or the job opportunity section of your corporate Web site;
• An unlimited number of job postings - with unlimited ad space;
• Easy, password protected access to add, delete and/or revise your job postings at any time from your computer;
• Electronic job distribution service that distributes your job postings to job related newsgroups, the YAHOO! employment classifieds, and 2 other popular career sites for maximum exposure

Advanced Internet Recruiting Seminars

Click here to learn more about the seminars and register online. Class size is limited to 30 per seminar. The seminars run from 9:00AM to 4:30PM. Take a look at a list of companies who have been to the seminars.

See a detailed index of our past issues

	July 27, 1997 Training On Recruiting Sites Modest Proposal Gossip Resume Robot Tidbits
July 20, 1997 What's It Cost Computer Jobs Store Writing Tips Market Readiness Recruiting Surprises	July 13, 1997 Creating Privacy Netscape 4.0 Security Knowing hat You Want Pre Employment Screening
July 06, 1997 Tidbits Slow, Slow Medium=Message Why People Leave Audience Balancing	June 29, 1997 Email Etiquette Workforce Changes Employment Projections Hits and Stats Overload
June 22, 1997 Net Growth Good PR Who's Recruiting? Net Demographics PEOs Online	June 15, 1997 References Right Coast Careers Newspaper Mania Aleph Cover Your Assets
June 08, 1997 Not Just Resumes Hodes More Junk Mail Survey Sez Ad Service	June 01, 1997 Bad Design, Bad Timing The Last War Mail Security Gimmicks Fed Stats
May 25, 1997 Blueness What Works Job Smart Consolidation Marketing Your Site	May 18, 1997 Searchbase Email Job Smart Specialty Recruiting What's an Ad?
More Archives The past 21 months of the Electronic Recruiting News	More Archives

"Recruiter's Resolutions For 2003:

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2. Take a speed-reading course to get through resumes faster
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4. Lower cost-per -hire (make that, determine cost-per-hire...then lower it!)
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