Lauderdale, Fla., HR must track hundreds of resumes that are received each week in response to ads the company places for electrical engineers, managers, and corporate executives. Caere Corp. After a quick review for relevancy, resumes received on paper can be scanned, and those received electronically ported directly into PageKeeper. The new system has helped reduce Motorola's average time for bringing on a new employee from 6 months to 46 days. Calif. The company's online system converts resumes from a summary of experience to a summary of skills, allowing clients to zero in on those candidates that fit a particular job's requirements. The system searches according to skill level, recency, years of experience, geography, education and other specifications set by the employer.
Employers can even assign weighted values to the various criteria.
The system is also useful for reengineering situations where skills, not job titles, must be matched to a company's redefined needs. IntelliMatch is available on the Internet's World Wide Web. Another product available on the World Wide Web, Resume Builder from Resumix Inc., formats resumes to be more easily read by scanning and processing programs. The system allows job seekers to include more detail than is usually included in a standard, two-page paper resume, while letting employers eliminate detail by selecting only those criteria that are relevant to a particular position. Unmatched resumes are kept available for future screening.