Patent ID: 8055525

Claim:
A method for a computer connected to a communications network to manage a work schedule of a plurality of staff members, the method comprising steps of: generating, via the computer, an assumed-schedule data that represents an assumed schedule of the plurality of staff members; designating, via the computer, a predetermined time period of acceptance and initiating acceptance of a requested-schedule data that represents a requested-schedule of each staff member from a terminal connected to the communications network; receiving to store, via the computer, the requested-schedule data of each staff member from the terminal; generating to display, via the computer, a vacancy schedule data that represents a vacancy schedule of the plurality of staff members on the basis of the assumed-schedule data and the requested-schedule data after the designated predetermined time period of acceptance has passed; generating, via the computer, a recruitment contact data that represents candidate staff members for whom recruitment contacts are to be performed on the basis of the vacancy schedule data and a staff attribute data that represents attributes of the plurality of staff members; storing, via the computer, an application data in response to the application data having been received from the candidate staff members for whom the recruitment contacts have been performed via the communications network; storing, via the computer, a viewing confirmation data in response to the viewing confirmation data having been received from terminals, wherein the viewing confirmation data represents the terminals having accepted viewing by the candidate staff members for whom the recruitment contacts have been performed; displaying, via computer, an application/viewing status representing the stored application data and the stored viewing confirmation data in response to acceptance of a request made by a manager; and displaying, via the computer, a schedule creation status data that represents a schedule creation status in response to a request by the manger having been accepted, on the basis of the assumed-schedule data, the requested-schedule data, and an interim-schedule data that represents an interim-schedule of the plurality of staff members on the basis of the assumed-schedule data and the requested-schedule data.