Employee recruiting systems and methods
First Claim
1. A system for matching job candidates to jobs, comprising:
- a computer readable medium for storing;
(a) candidate information, including names of job candidates, historical information, a potential candidate'"'"'s interest in leaving a current job, and at least one of requirements and preference criteria of a potential candidate, and (b) job information;
wherein;
an employment recruiter is assigned to a candidate whose name is stored based at least partially on evaluation information stored for that candidate;
the candidate information and job information is accessed from the computer readable medium or mediums with the aid of a computer to determine potential matches; and
an employment recruiter selects a job for consideration by a potential candidate to whom the recruiter has been assigned.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for employment recruiting are provided. In one aspect, a remote call center is used to make initial contact with the candidates to obtain information regarding their placeability and urgency in changing jobs, and to provide an initial screening (107), and a local candidate specialist may then personally interview the candidate. In another aspect, compensation is set for recruiters by adjusting a base compensation based on individual and group performance. In another aspect, candidates are assigned to candidate specialists, and client employers are assigned to client specialists. In another aspect, job candidates and job openings are independently obtained so that candidates will be available immediately to fill the openings. In another aspect, in a team-oriented method of matching candidates with jobs, candidates are matched to jobs by corporation among candidate specialists and client specialists. In another aspect, candidates are matched with jobs using candidate and employer ratings.
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72 Claims
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1. A system for matching job candidates to jobs, comprising:
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a computer readable medium for storing;
(a) candidate information, including names of job candidates, historical information, a potential candidate'"'"'s interest in leaving a current job, and at least one of requirements and preference criteria of a potential candidate, and (b) job information;
wherein;
an employment recruiter is assigned to a candidate whose name is stored based at least partially on evaluation information stored for that candidate;
the candidate information and job information is accessed from the computer readable medium or mediums with the aid of a computer to determine potential matches; and
an employment recruiter selects a job for consideration by a potential candidate to whom the recruiter has been assigned.
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2. A telecommunications system for use by an employment recruiting organization, comprising:
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a first telecommunications apparatus at a first facility at a location that is local with respect to a job market;
wherein the first telecommunications apparatus is operatively coupled to a telephone communications system providing at least one telephone number either local with respect to the location of a job market or toll-free, and the first facility has a staff including employment recruiters;
a second telecommunications apparatus at a second facility at a location that is remote with respect to the job market;
wherein the second telecommunications apparatus is operatively coupled to the telephone communications system, and the second facility has a staff including telemarketers;
wherein the first and second telecommunications apparatuses employ a call forwarding feature of the telephone communications system to forward calls to the at least one telephone number of the first facility to the second facility for answering by a telemarketer at the second facility.
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3. A telecommunications facility for use by an employment recruiting organization, comprising:
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a first telecommunications apparatus at a first facility at a location that is local with respect to a job market;
wherein the first telecommunications apparatus is operatively coupled to a telephone communications system providing at least one telephone number either local with respect to the location of a job market or toll-free, and the first facility has a staff including employment recruiters;
a second telecommunications apparatus at a second facility at a location that is remote with respect to the job market;
wherein the second telecommunications apparatus is operatively coupled to the telephone communications system, and the second facility has a staff including telemarketers;
wherein the first and second telecommunications apparatuses employ a call identification feature of the telephone communications system which indicates to a potential job candidate called by a telemarketer at the second facility the at least one telephone number of the first facility.
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4. A system for use by an employment recruiting organization in setting compensation for each employment recruiter of a group of employment recruiters providing employment services, comprising:
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a storage medium for storing;
(a) data that indicates a base compensation and a performance goal for a particular function or set of functions for each recruiter in the group of recruiters, (b) data that indicates an actual performance of a particular recruiter, and (c) data that indicates an actual performance of the group; and
a processor adapted to access the storage medium and execute instructions to determine an actual compensation for the particular recruiter according to the base compensation of the particular recruiter, the actual performance of the particular recruiter, and the actual performance of the group. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system of setting compensation for each individual, of a group, performing a service resulting from the contribution or contributions of one or more individuals in the group, comprising:
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a storage medium for storing;
(a) data that indicates a base compensation and a performance goal for a particular function or set of functions for each individual in the group;
(b) data that indicates a performance goal for the group;
(c) data that indicates an actual performance of the particular individual; and
(d) data that indicates an actual performance of the group; and
a processor adapted to access the storage medium and execute instructions to determine an actual compensation for the particular individual according to the base compensation of the particular individual, an actual performance of the particular individual, and an actual performance of the group. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A system for assigning job candidates to recruiters in a group of recruiters, comprising:
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a storage medium for storing data indicative of evaluations of the job candidates, and data indicative of evaluations of the recruiters in the group; and
a processor, adapted to access the storage medium, for executing instructions to assign the job candidates to a respective selected one of the recruiters according to a correspondence between the job candidate'"'"'s evaluation and the selected recruiter'"'"'s evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A system for use in employment recruiting, comprising:
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a storage medium for storing data identifying a pool of job candidates, and data identifying a pool of available jobs from associated employers;
wherein the pool of available jobs from associated employers is obtained independently of the obtaining of the pool of job candidates. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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61. A system for matching job candidates with available jobs, comprising:
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the storage medium for storing data regarding a pool of job candidates and a pool of available jobs from associated employers, respective computer-implemented interfaces for use by respective candidate specialists to which the job candidates are assigned, and respective client specialists to which the employers are assigned; and
a processor, adapted to access the storage medium, for executing instructions for use in matching at least a particular one of the job candidates in a pool of job candidates to at least a particular one of available jobs in a pool of available jobs from associated employers in a cooperative effort between at least one of;
(a) the candidate specialists, (b) the client specialists, and (c) the candidate specialists and the client specialists. - View Dependent Claims (62, 63, 64)
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65. A system for matching job candidates with available jobs, comprising:
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a storage medium for storing data obtained by evaluation the job candidate, and by evaluation employers with respective available jobs; and
a processor adapted to access the storage medium and execute instructions to match to the job candidates to the available jobs according to a correspondence between the job candidate'"'"'s evaluation and the employer'"'"'s evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71)
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72. A system of matching job candidates in a pool of job candidates with available jobs in a pool of available jobs, comprising:
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a storage medium for storing data obtained by;
(a) evaluation the job candidate at least on one of;
(a1) a scale that accounts for a degree of placeability, and (a2) a scale that accounts for a degree of urgency in finding a new job, and (b) evaluation employers with respective available jobs by accounting for the amount of jobs associated with the particular employer out of a total number of jobs of the pool of available jobs for a predetermined time period;
a processor adapted to access the storage medium and execute instructions to assign at least a particular job candidate of the pool of job candidates to a particular recruiter in a group of recruiters, and to match the job candidates to the available jobs according to a correspondence between the job candidate'"'"'s evaluation and the employer'"'"'s evaluation.
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Specification