With upwards of 250 million people using the Net in the U.S. and Canada alone, the wealth of candidate resources is unprecedented. Read on and get introduced to a set of sites that contain literally millions of resumes and homepages - sites we call Virtual Communities. Millions of people have put their resumes online. One of the favorite places for people to put such pages is on a virtual community Web site. Virtual communities are Web sites that offer free homepages to the public and provide ways for people to share information, interact online and communicate with one another.
Virtual communities are, in effect, powerful databases filled with people.
What's clear is that the largest virtual communities are growing by leaps and bounds. That means millions and millions of new members are posting homepages and resumes all the time. This is great news for the very few recruiters who realize these sites are out there. That could be you. For many people, the initial attraction to join a virtual community is for free Web space and free email.