Along with many other people, I have been through the experience of job hunting in this bad economy. Not fun. Many companies list open positions on both job boards (CareerBuilder, Monster, etc.) as well as their own websites. Every time you click on a job that looks interesting you are taken to a different website. If you want to apply to companies A, B, and C, you can bet that it will be on three different sites. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to enter my entire educational and professional history from scratch, despite having a resume ready to go. Sure Monster and CareerBuilder have the features to simply forward your resume, but 90% of the time clicking the ‘apply’ link takes you to a new website. Create a login. Fill out personal info. Education. Experience. Repeat. I’ve had jobs that took over 30 minutes to apply for with my resume sitting untouched on my desktop. When you apply to a lot of jobs this eats up quite a bit of time.
I’ve got a business idea for someone out there – create a website where users enter all their work information once and make it compatible with other companies systems. I want to enter my personal info, education, work history, references, and anything else relevent to a job search one time only. I would like to see a feature similar to Facebook connect where you could login to other companies websites with an existing ID. Applying for a job on for any company should be as simple as logging in and clicking submit.
Considering that many companies already offer this type of service, and there isn’t one company popular enough to be an industry standard, the solution might be to create a non-profit organization instead of a private company. If you could get some of the Fortune 500 and sites like Monster and CareerBuilder to sign on – you’d be set. Or someone could just fix the economy, whatever is easier.
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