PROCEDURE TO COLLECT, MAINTAIN, AND DISTRIBUTE WORKERS' PREFERENCES FOR PROFESSIONAL RECRUITER CONTACT

• US 20070136310A1
• Filed: 11/25/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Derrico
• Original Assignee: David Derrico
• Inventors: Derrico, David
• Application Number:
  US11/563,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136310A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system for collecting, maintaining, and distributing information and preferences of workers regarding whether and how they wish to be contacted by professional recruiters (or “headhunters”). Such a system involves the workers entering identifying information (e.g., name, profession, phone number, address, etc.) and their preferences though an Internet website, email, telephone, mail, or by other method. The information is then collected into a database or pair of databases—a “whitelist” of people who wish to be contacted by professional recruiters, and a “blacklist” of people who do not wish to be contacted by recruiters. The blacklist could either be sold or distributed for free to headhunters who operate in the worker'"'"'s geographic area, with instruction to the headhunter not to contact the individuals on the list. The whitelist could be sold to those same headhunters as a listing of individuals who may be interested in using the headhunters'"'"' services.

Claims

1. A method of collecting and maintaining names of workers along with information provided by workers, comprising:

a. collecting a set of information from workers, said information comprising data that identifies those workers, provides one or more methods for contacting the workers, relates to the workers'"'"' individual profession and is customarily used by professional recruiters or employers in the workers'"'"' particular field in making employment decisions or matching candidates with prospective job openings, and identifies the workers'"'"' preferences regarding when, by what method of communication, and about what types of jobs those workers wish to be contacted;

b. maintaining said information in a list or database; and

c. distributing at least a portion of said information to professional recruiters.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more Internet websites are used to collect the information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more Internet websites are used to collect the information through the use of a form, wherein the worker may enter the information into various form fields, and then submit the information, which is collected by programs written in web server scripting languages and imported into a chart or database through use of commercially-available or free software.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is collected by one or more of the following methods:

receiving emails from workers, receiving phone calls from workers, receiving postal mail letters from workers, and receiving facsimile transmissions from workers.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein workers can update the information that was previously entered as the information changes.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the information collected is sold to professional recruiters.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the information received is filtered according to various criteria and sorted into sub-databases based on contact preference, occupation, practice area, years of experience, geographic region, or such other data fields as professional recruiters may desire to match up with the types of clients that professional recruiters serve, and where professional recruiters may purchase at least a portion of the sub-databases.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the information received is sorted into two separate lists comprised of:

a “

whitelist”

of workers willing to receive professional recruiter communications, and a “

blacklist”

of workers who are not willing to receive professional recruiter communications.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the whitelist is sold to professional recruiters, and the blacklist is provided to professional recruiters for free.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein workers only enter the information if they desire to be contacted by professional recruiters, and the resulting whitelist is sold to professional recruiters without any accompanying list of workers who do not wish to be contacted by professional recruiters.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the information received is sold by one or more of the following methods:

sales of the information of one or more workers to an individual professional recruiter or professional recruiters, a recurring subscription-based service where a new list is distributed to professional recruiters monthly, weekly, daily, or at some other interval, and an auction of at least a portion of the list to a pool of numerous professional recruiters.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is collected from attorneys, and comprises additional attorney-specific classes of information comprising:

information about clients or amount of business brought in by the attorney, courts the attorney is licensed to practice before, significant cases, lawsuits, or deals the attorney has worked on, position within the attorney'"'"'s current firm (i.e., associate, senior associate, of counsel, or partner), and type of legal area the attorney specializes in.

13. A method of collecting and maintaining information, comprising names of workers along with personal information, contact information, employment information, and contact preferences, said method comprising:

a. collecting said information from workers, which comprises;

personal information such as name and social security number;

contact information such as phone number, fax number, or email address;

employment information such as occupation, employer name, practice area or professional specialty, years and types of experience, and special qualifications; and

contact preferences such as preferred times or days of contact, preferred method of contact, and type of job sought;

b. maintaining said information in a list or database; and

c. distributing at least a portion of said information to professional recruiters, wherein at least some of the information provided to professional recruiters is sold.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein one or more Internet websites are used to collect the information.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein workers can update the information that was previously entered as the information changes.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the information received is filtered according to criteria and sorted into sub-databases based on contact preference, occupation, practice area, years of experience, geographic region, or such other data fields as professional recruiters may desire to match up with the types of clients that they serve, and where professional recruiters may purchase at least a portion of the sub-databases.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the information received is sorted into two separate lists comprised of:

a “

whitelist”

of workers willing to receive professional recruiter communications, and a “

blacklist”

of workers who are not willing to receive professional recruiter communications.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein workers only enter the information if they desire to be contacted by professional recruiters, and the resulting whitelist is sold to professional recruiters without any accompanying list of workers who do not desire to be contacted by professional recruiters.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the information received is sold by one or more of the following methods:

sales of information and preferences of one or more workers to an individual professional recruiter or professional recruiters, a recurring subscription-based service where a new list is distributed to professional recruiters monthly, weekly, daily, or at some other interval, and an auction of at least a portion of the list to a pool of numerous professional recruiters.

20. A method of collecting and maintaining information, comprising names of workers along with personal information, contact information, employment information, and contact preferences, said method comprising:

a. collecting said information from workers by one or more of the following methods;

use of an Internet website, by receiving emails, by receiving phone calls, by receiving postal mail, and by receiving facsimile transmissions from workers, where said information comprises;

name, social security number, work phone number, home phone number, cellular phone number, fax number, email address, mailing address, occupation, employer name, practice area or professional specialty, years and types of experience, special qualifications, professional licenses and affiliations, information about clients, profession-specific information, a current resume, new region the employee is considering moving to, timing of anticipated job move, current salary, desired salary, preferred times or days of contact, preferred method of contact, type of job sought, optional notes, time of information entry, internet protocol address, and whether the user is a new user or a returning user updating his or her information;

b. maintaining said information in one or more of the following formats;

in a list, database, spreadsheet, text file, and handwritten format; and

c. distributing at least a portion of said information to professional recruiters, wherein the information distributed may be filtered based on various criteria and wherein the information is sold to professional recruiters.