The Internet eventually will create an almost pure market for labor. That means if you have a skill that is scarce or a skill in hot demand, your value will be bid up more quickly, says Restrac CEO Lars Perkins. Workers in many professions use the Web sites of trade associations. State unemployment offices soon will be posting resumes on government Web sites such as America's Job Bank , run by the Labor Department, which lists over 500,000 jobs. Millions of resumes will be kept on Web sites at universities and newspapers and on dozens of giant private sites such as CareerMosaic and The Monster Board, which has 30,000 resumes.
Thousands already have resumes on personal Web sites.
That will grow more popular as search engines get more sophisticated, letting companies find resumes in personal Web sites all over the world. Source Digital went looking for someone with video-editing skills and found him through the Web site resume of Louis Lau, a May graduate of Hofstra. UCLA is teaching low-income job hunters to use the Internet at churches, community centers and libraries. Applicants looking for hotel housekeeping work can get on Marriott's resume database just by calling an 800-number and answering questions by pushing buttons. Researchers will soon marry the Internet with TV, bringing every couch potato's resume to the Web.