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So I did a google on my name. Lmao.... Here's the ABC Nightly News piece I was on....“Finding a job on the Internet” ABC News, August 3 1999 (40 minutes)
“Finding a job on the Internet” ABC News, August 3 1999 (40 minutes)
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Finally this evening, another example of the internet transforming life. And you may say “I’ve heard enough stories about the Internet transforming life”, but this one really does involve one of the most important and easily the most time-consuming parts of many people’s lives : finding a job.
As ABC’s Jane Clayson’s reports, the Internet is here to help.

The last time Alexis Miller looked for a job, she searched the classified ads, mailed and faxed her resume. This time she went straight to the Internet and was amazed at the response.
« In less than 24 hours I had 8 hits, solid recruiters. It’s not just in California, recruiters nation-wide.
On line searching is incredibly popular, not just for people like Alexis Miller but for employers too. Increasingly companies are recruiting over the Internet to find the best new workers in a tight competitive job market.

John Sullivan (recruitment trend specialist) : It’s cheaper. I mean it’s one tenth of the cost of a newspaper ad, and produce higher quality candidates and you can get them from all around the world, and you get them fast.

Corporations are training recruiters to aggressively find and entice potential workers on line. (…) At this seminar they are learning to reach into a competitor’s employee directory, search press releases and lurk in discussion groups.
Bill Craib (Internet recruitment strategist) : people are saying “they don’t have to send me their résumés, I’m going to find this person and tell them it’s the right job for them.”

Experts say e-cruiting is the way of the future. Right now there are more than 5 million résumés on the Internet – two hundred times more than five years ago.
Companies like Cisco Systems in California are one of many hoping to find new prospects in their electronic mailboxes.

Barbara Beck (Cisco Systems) : About sixty six percent of our employees are hired that sent their résumés on line.
And Cisco has been able to cut down on the time it takes to fill a job, from an average of a hundred and thirteen days to just forty five.

There are downsides : on line résumés are much less personal, and with so many of them out there, they can start to look like junk mail. And there’s always the risk that computer bugs and glitches will keep an employer from reading them.

But it worked for Alexsis Miller. She found a job in less than three weeks. “I’ll never go back to the Sunday newspaper – that’s a waste of time. I’ll definitely go through the Internet.”

As will millions of others!

Jane Clayson, ABC News.