COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT RECRUITING COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH TRANSLATION FACILITY
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1. A method of managing employment recruiting communications comprising computer-implemented operations of:
- receiving from recruiting personnel computer-readable communications including a recruitment plan in a source language, the recruitment plan comprising at least;
a description of a given job;
under first prescribed conditions, conducting computer-readable communications to initiate and obtain translation by a human translator of some or all of the recruitment plan including at least one of;
the description of the given job, keywords only, everything in the recruitment plan;
launching a job search comprising;
(1) making the recruitment plan including any translation available to candidates by posting some or all of the recruitment plan upon one or more Internet web sites, (2) identifying people including at least one of;
people likely to be a candidate for the described job and reside within a threshold proximity of a prescribed job site, people likely to know said people likely to be a candidate, (3) retrieving and completing one or more pre-stored templates to form personalized computer-readable solicitations directed at the identified people and reflecting language appropriate to the identified people, (4) transmitting the completed solicitations to the identified people;
after launching the job search, operating a central communications server to observe a predetermined workflow for collection, evaluation, forwarding, generation, and notification as to communications arising from the job search and occurring among some or all of the following;
applicants, job candidates, the identified people, hiring authorities, recruiting personnel, referral sources;
further operating the central communications server to perform operations including, under second predetermined conditions, obtaining translation of said items of the communications arising from the job search, the obtaining of translation comprising one or more of the following;
(1) performing automated translation by applying a stored translation database to said items, (2) initiating and obtaining translation by a human translator of said items.
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Abstract
An employment recruiting communications system selectively employs language translation to support multi-cultural communications.
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1. A method of managing employment recruiting communications comprising computer-implemented operations of:
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receiving from recruiting personnel computer-readable communications including a recruitment plan in a source language, the recruitment plan comprising at least;
a description of a given job;
under first prescribed conditions, conducting computer-readable communications to initiate and obtain translation by a human translator of some or all of the recruitment plan including at least one of;
the description of the given job, keywords only, everything in the recruitment plan;
launching a job search comprising;
(1) making the recruitment plan including any translation available to candidates by posting some or all of the recruitment plan upon one or more Internet web sites, (2) identifying people including at least one of;
people likely to be a candidate for the described job and reside within a threshold proximity of a prescribed job site, people likely to know said people likely to be a candidate, (3) retrieving and completing one or more pre-stored templates to form personalized computer-readable solicitations directed at the identified people and reflecting language appropriate to the identified people, (4) transmitting the completed solicitations to the identified people;
after launching the job search, operating a central communications server to observe a predetermined workflow for collection, evaluation, forwarding, generation, and notification as to communications arising from the job search and occurring among some or all of the following;
applicants, job candidates, the identified people, hiring authorities, recruiting personnel, referral sources;
further operating the central communications server to perform operations including, under second predetermined conditions, obtaining translation of said items of the communications arising from the job search, the obtaining of translation comprising one or more of the following;
(1) performing automated translation by applying a stored translation database to said items, (2) initiating and obtaining translation by a human translator of said items. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A process for managing employment recruiting with automated translation, the process comprising operations of:
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providing pre-prepared source language web sites containing job postings and application information and providing counterpart web sites containing pre-prepared translations of the source language web sites in one or more predetermined languages different than the source language;
responsive to a communications server receiving users'"'"' computer-readable communications submitted by completing forms upon the web sites, the communications server performing computer-implemented operations comprising;
determining if translation of the computer-readable communications is required by predetermined rules, and if so, effecting the translating by performing at least one of;
(1) computer-implemented operations of applying a translation database to the computer-readable communications, (2) obtaining translation of the computer-readable communications by a human translator;
consulting a predetermined workflow and contacts list to identify one or more recipients appropriate to circumstances of the completed form, and then performing one or more of the following;
(1) generating an e-mail message containing the received computer-readable communications including any required translation and sending the generated e-mail to the identified recipients, (2) notifying the identified recipients of receipt of the computer-readable communications and making the computer-readable communications including any required translation available on demand at one or more of the web sites;
responsive to users'"'"' completion of prescribed tasks via the web sites, the communications server performing computer-implemented operations comprising;
referencing a predetermined workflow and contacts list to identify the following;
(1) one or more addressees as appropriate to the completed task, (2) one or more pre-stored communications templates containing a message appropriate to the completed task and utilizing a language appropriate to the identified addressees;
retrieving and filling-out the identified templates to form personalized electronic communications directed at the identified addressees;
performing one of the following;
(1) generating e-mail messages containing the personalized electronic communications and sending the generated e-mail messages to the identified addressees, (2) notifying the identified addressees of availability of the personalized electronic communications and making the personalized electronic communications available to the identified addressees on demand at one or more of the web sites.
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14. A computer-implemented employment recruiting management process implementing a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework, the process comprising computer-implemented operations of:
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initiating a job search including conducting Internet posting of information including at least a job description and selecting and filling-in and transmitting template-based computer-readable solicitations directed at pre-selected candidates and referral sources;
serving as a communications hub to act in accordance with predetermined workflow to receive, forward, and generate subsequent communications arising from the job search and involving job applicants, referral sources, and recruiting personnel;
where each of the operations of initiating the job search and serving as the communications hub further comprises determining if predetermined criteria call for translation to facilitate communications among participants of different languages, and if so, automatically negotiating translation;
where the negotiation of translation includes computer-implemented operations of;
(1) under first conditions, performing translation by applying a computer-readable translation dictionary, (2) under second conditions, obtaining translation by a human translator.
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15. A computer readable medium storing a program to perform operations comprising:
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receiving from recruiting personnel computer-readable communications including a recruitment plan in a source language, the recruitment plan comprising at least;
a description of a given job;
under first prescribed conditions, conducting computer-readable communications to initiate and obtain translation by a human translator of some or all of the recruitment plan including at least one of;
the description of the given job, keywords only, everything in the recruitment plan;
launching a job search comprising;
(1) making the recruitment plan including any translation available to candidates by posting some or all of the recruitment plan upon one or more Internet web sites, (2) identifying people including at least one of;
people likely to be a candidate for the described job and reside within a threshold proximity of a prescribed job site, people likely to know said people likely to be a candidate, (3) retrieving and completing one or more pre-stored templates to form personalized computer-readable solicitations directed at the identified people and reflecting language appropriate to the identified people, (4) transmitting the completed solicitations to the identified people;
after launching the job search, operating a central communications server to observe a predetermined workflow for collection, evaluation, forwarding, generation, and notification as to communications arising from the job search and occurring among some or all of the following;
applicants, job candidates, the identified people, hiring authorities, recruiting personnel, referral sources;
further operating the central communications server to perform operations including, under second predetermined conditions, obtaining translation of said items of the communications arising from the job search, the obtaining of translation comprising one or more of the following;
(1) performing automated translation by applying a stored translation database to said items, (2) initiating and obtaining translation by a human translator of said items.
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16. A computer readable medium storing a program to perform computer-implemented operations to implement a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework, the operations comprising:
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initiating a job search including conducting Internet posting of information including at least a job description and selecting and filling-in and transmitting template-based computer-readable solicitations directed at pre-selected candidates and referral sources;
serving as a communications hub to act in accordance with predetermined workflow in receiving, forwarding, and generating subsequent communications arising from the job search and involving job applicants, referral sources, and recruiting personnel;
where each of the operations of initiating the job search and serving as the communications hub further comprises determining if predetermined criteria call for translation to facilitate communications among participants of different languages, and if so, automatically negotiating translation;
where the negotiation of translation includes computer-implemented operations of;
(1) under first conditions, performing translation by applying a computer-readable translation dictionary, (2) under second conditions, obtaining translation by a human translator.
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17. A computer-driven apparatus of managing employment recruiting communications comprising:
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a computer-readable translation database;
case information containing computer-readable data specifying information about the following aspects of a job search;
job applicants, candidates, referral sources, recruiting personnel, events in progression of the job search, and preferences of at least some of participants in the job search;
a first set of pre-stored computer-readable templates residing in a prescribed language, each template including blanks whose content is determined by a predetermined mapping to case information, said templates when completed forming personalized computer-readable solicitations set forth in the prescribed language;
one or more further sets of computer-readable templates, where templates in each further set correspond to template counterparts in the first set, each further set templates pertaining to a different language;
a computer-readable workflow setting forth a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework;
a communications server programmed to perform operations comprising;
receiving from recruiting personnel computer-readable communications including a recruitment plan in a source language, the recruitment plan comprising at least;
a description of a given job;
under first prescribed conditions, conducting computer-readable communications to initiate and obtain translation by a human translator of some or all of the recruitment plan including at least one of;
the description of the given job, keywords only, everything in the recruitment plan;
launching a job search comprising;
(1) making the recruitment plan including any translation available to candidates by posting some or all of the recruitment plan upon one or more Internet web sites, (2) referencing the case information to identify people including at least one of;
people likely to be a candidate for the described job and reside within a threshold proximity of a prescribed job site, people likely to know said people likely to be a candidate, (3) retrieving and completing one or more of the templates to form personalized computer-readable solicitations directed at the identified people and reflecting language appropriate to the identified people, (4) transmitting the completed solicitations to the identified people;
after launching the job search, observing the workflow for collection, evaluation, forwarding, generation, and notification as to communications arising from the job search and occurring among some or all of the following;
applicants, job candidates, the identified people, hiring authorities, recruiting personnel, referral sources;
the operation of observing the workflow further including, under second predetermined conditions, obtaining translation of said items of the communications arising from the job search, the obtaining of translation comprising one or more of the following;
(1) performing automated translation by applying the translation database to said items, (2) initiating and obtaining translation by a human translator of said items.
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18. A computer-driven employment recruiting communications system, comprising:
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case information containing computer-readable data specifying information about the following aspects of a job search;
job applicants, candidates, referral sources, recruiting personnel, events in progression of the job search, and preferences of at least some of participants in the job search;
a first set of pre-stored computer-readable templates residing in a prescribed language, each template including blanks whose content is determined by a predetermined mapping to case information, said templates when completed forming personalized computer-readable solicitations set forth in the prescribed language;
one or more further sets of computer-readable templates, where templates in each further set correspond to template counterparts in the first set, each further set templates pertaining to a different language;
a computer-readable translation dictionary;
a computer-readable workflow setting forth a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework;
a digital data processing engine programmed to perform operations to manage a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework by observing the predetermined workflows as indexed by case information, said operations including;
initiating a job search including conducting Internet posting of information including at least a job description and also selecting, filling-in, and transmitting appropriate ones of the templates to pre-selected candidates and referral sources;
serving as a communications hub to receive, forward, and generate subsequent communications arising from the job search and involving job applicants, referral sources, and recruiting personnel, the operation of serving as a communications hub acting in accordance with the workflow as indexed by the case information;
where each of the operations of initiating the job search and serving as the communications hub further comprises determining if predetermined criteria call for translation to facilitate communications among participants of different languages, and if so, automatically negotiating translation;
where the negotiation of translation includes computer-implemented operations of;
(1) under first conditions, performing translation by applying the translation dictionary, (2) under second conditions, obtaining translation by a human translator.
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19. A computer-driven employment recruiting communications system, comprising:
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first means for storing case information comprising computer-readable data specifying information about the following aspects of a job search;
job applicants, candidates, referral sources, recruiting personnel, events in progression of the job search, and preferences of at least some of participants in the job search;
a first set of pre-stored computer-readable templates residing in a prescribed language, each template including blanks whose content is determined by a predetermined mapping to case information, said templates when completed forming personalized computer-readable solicitations set forth in the prescribed language;
one or more further sets of computer-readable templates, where templates in each further set correspond to template counterparts in the first set, each further set templates pertaining to a different language;
second means for storing a computer-readable translation dictionary;
third means for storing predetermined computer-readable workflows setting forth a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework;
fourth means for managing a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework by observing the predetermined workflows as indexed by the case information in order to perform operations comprising;
initiating a job search including conducting Internet posting of information including at least a job description and also selecting, filling-in, and transmitting appropriate ones of the templates to pre-selected candidates and referral sources;
serving as a communications hub to receive, forward, and generate subsequent communications arising from the job search and involving job applicants, referral sources, and recruiting personnel, the operation of serving as a communications hub acting in accordance with the workflow as indexed by the case information;
where each of the operations of initiating the job search and serving as the communications hub further comprises determining if predetermined criteria call for translation to facilitate communications among participants of different languages, and if so, automatically negotiating translation;
where the negotiation of translation includes computer-implemented operations of;
(1) under first conditions, performing translation by applying the translation dictionary, (2) under second conditions, obtaining translation by a human translator.
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20. A computer-implemented employment recruiting management system programmed to implement a predetermined multi-stage employment recruiting framework by performing computer-implemented operations comprising:
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initiating a job search including conducting Internet posting of information including at least a job description and selecting and filling-in and transmitting template-based computer-readable solicitations directed at pre-selected candidates and referral sources;
serving as a communications hub to act in accordance with predetermined workflow to receive, forward, and generate subsequent communications arising from the job search and involving job applicants, referral sources, and recruiting personnel;
where each of the operations of initiating the job search and serving as the communications hub further comprises determining if predetermined criteria call for translation to facilitate communications among participants of different languages, and if so, automatically negotiating translation;
where the negotiation of translation includes computer-implemented operations of;
(1) under first conditions, performing translation by applying a computer-readable translation dictionary, (2) under second conditions, obtaining translation by a human translator.
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