Employers are taking advantage of electronic media as well. Human screening of resumes and applications has become cost-prohibitive. Thus many employers are using technology both to save time and money and to reach the widest possible pool of potential applicants. Only those resumes which match the terms programmed in by the employer go into a database, where they are read by human eyes. Employers maintain electronic databases of qualified candidates and tap into these databases on an on-going basis, whenever new positions are being created.
Employers use e-mail for easy, direct contact with potential job candidates.
The computers which scan resumes use artificial intelligence to search for key words and then store resumes of qualified potential employees in a database. Remember that anyone can post a webpage. Comments on this page should be directed to Diane Boehm .