Log on for Recruits

摘要

Late one Thursday afternoon a hiring manager hands a human-resources staffer a job description scribbled on a napkin. The HR person puzzles it out, puts it into readable English, and calls a newspaper's classified advertising department to make the deadline for Sunday's employment section. The ad runs and the HR department waits for resumes to arrive in the mail or by fax. No phone calls, please. Two years ago that was standard operating procedure for most companies looking for new employees. Today, as quickly as you can say, "Drag, click, paste, send," the job description from the rumpled napkin is posted on the Internet where its key words are searched by thousands of job seekers. The HR person comes to work the next morning with several resumes waiting for review in his or her e-mail. At minimal or no cost the ad runs not just one day in one newspaper but weeks or months online, and it can draw responses from a huge pool of potential employees.