Baptist Health Systems, for example, has a link from the Nursing Spectrum magazine site. They limit their Internet recruiting to computer-oriented jobs in information technology and finance. They tie Internet recruiting to corporate marketing by steering all the electronic job-seekers to their own company's home page. For about a year, the company has posted listings electronically for every kind of job. Through its own name recognition and the big job-hunting sites, the Delray Beach company receives 600 to 800 resumes a week.
Resumes are e-mailed or sent on paper, then scanned into the company's database.
Job-seekers like that short time frame, too. Lissette Herrera says it took her about a month to land her job as a recruiter at Baptist Hospital. She didn't like the commute from her home in Miami to her previous job in Fort Lauderdale at Citibank International. So she went hunting for local employers' Web sites about a year ago. Coming to the job interview down an electronic path is new enough that it lends an aura to those who do.