It's not a cheap thing. By the end of this month, she will have kiosks at Santa Rosa Junior College and Empire College in Sonoma County. She wants to install another in Reno. In communities with high unemployment, the response has been overwhelming. In Redding, for example, applicants have flocked to the Job Shop kiosk at the Shasta Mall since its opening in late March.
People go in there and sign up.
I had no idea we were going to be so well received in Redding. The kiosks also can be customized for companies to do direct recruiting. Kaiser Permanente, for example, is considering using the Arden Fair and Downtown Plaza kiosks to help fill some 150 call center openings in Sacramento. Kaiser is looking at a dedicated Job Shop button and questions tailored to the call center opening, helping screen out unqualified candidates. Nowadays there are so many jobs and so few qualified people out there.