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On Wed, 26 Oct 1994 jvncnet!howpubs.com!robin@dowv wrote:

> I just read an article explaining the career center proposed by eWorld.  Why is it that when a new service like this is developed, the online service has to claim "it's unlike any other service currently
> offered online" and "we're offering things you can't get anywhere else" ?
>  I could see the reasoning if it were usually
> true.  However, this career center thing is not new or all that unusual
>(or hard to put together for that matter).  AOL has a fairly good career
>conference.  Actually, it sounds as if eWorld used the same ideas:
> posting resumes, connections to career experts, job search talk, etc.

WOW a focused and limited view to misc.jobs.offered misc.jobs.wanted, the
jobs database, and the IRC jobs channel.  In case you hadn't guessed, this
game has been going on since compuserve offered the first "newsgroup",
which was not a whole lot different than usenet mailing lists and newsgroups.

If you want to see the future today, watch what's happening at mit.edu,
cmu.edu, oak.edu, and cu.co.edu.  MS-DOS has been announcing "features"
that typically are working and in government production for at least one
year on UNIX systems.  Windows-NT has finally "discovered" a use for
multitasking :-) (for 15 years, IBM/Microsoft has rediculed the concept of
multitasking on a single user engine, until their own applications became
to cumbersome to run in a single program memory model).
 
> Just venting...not necessarily looking for responses.  I'm just tired
> of services tooting their horns when some of the things they're bragging
> about are not all that great.  We're launching a local online service and
> will be offering a career center.  However, we already have a resume

I have gotten job leads for myself and about 30 other people on
misc.jobs.offered since 1987.  Most of the jobs are high-level, and
technically oriented.  Perhaps what is "unique" is that they are providing
the same type of "electronic job-shopping" that us computer geeks have
enjoyed since about 1984 :-)

> database, local help wanted ads, and relationships with local job seekers
> and human resource managers.  Putting these together is not a monumental
> task and I'm not going to claim it is.  Personally, I'd rather talk to
> local experts who I might actually be able to meet in person and local
> job seekers who can give me tangible job leads. > 

One of the hot features of misc.jobs.* groups was the advent of the
electronic head hunter.  These guys specialize in tempting talent out of
the net by providing tempting leads.  When you respond, they match your
actual skill set to about 200 listings that weren't posted.  They also
specialize in quick turn-around.  I have been placed in a permanent
position in as little as 3 days from response to job offer.  I have placed
20 contractors (My firm had a surplus) in less than 10 days.

If you could provide a similar service for nurses, lawyers, accountants,
carpenters, or mechanics, you could produce some hefty placement fees in a
very short time. ----------------- Kismet :-)

> Robin Williamson
> Marketing Director, CaluNET

	Rex Ballard



From rexb Tue Nov  8 16:07:05 1994