IT Organziations Facing Staffing Problems

GIBSONIA, PA:    Recently, a study by the Internet Technology Assocation of America indicated that Corporate America will create 1.6 million new IT jobs 2000 alone. Of these, nearly 825,000 will remain
unfilled this year. With the unemployment rate in this sector coming in at less than 1%, companies are battling to find quality employers. It appears that the only limiting factor of the e-commerce revolution may be the ability to hire an efficient staff.

How are IT companies dealing with these astounding figures? The first rule of e-business has taught organizations to turn to the Internet for all business needs. It sounds almost too easy: a company may post a job opening on the web allowing interested candidates to reply. The theory, although sound, has one fatal flaw.
Companies are utilizing the same vehicle that has turned its business into a booming global organization by allowing its message to be seen by billions of people world-wide. This is a case of: you asked for it, youve got it. A single job posting on an on-line job database will generate thousands of unqualified responses. On-
line job databases are designed to deliver resumes to companies in need of employees. And deliver they do.

Companies are then left to the sordid task of sorting through the thousands of resumes, contacting the individuals and finding one person who is qualified and willing to go to work. Dont murder the messenger.

On-line job databases have upheld their end of the bargain. Businesses, however, are realizing that a more sophisticated method of finding quality employees is needed to survive the next wave of staffing issues.

There is one website that is revolutionizing the way on-line recruiting is handled. TheShortList.com provides employers a way to quickly research different candidates and download resumes from qualified individuals. Since all of the information is gathered on-line, a short list of interested, qualified candidates will be found in a matter of minutes. TheShortList.com currently hosts information from thousands of the top
and e-commerce professionals, with hundreds of new candidates posting their information weekly.

The heart of this approach is a multi-tiered filtration system that utilizes the Internet as a tool to search and retrieve candidates from TheShortList.coms database.    The database is comprised of two parts, the combination of which creates The Whole Picture. The sections include Personal Preference and Skills Inventory. The candidates use a menu driven cataloguing scheme to input their desires and skills. The employers, using the same on-line cataloguing scheme, perform searches on the qualities an ideal candidate
will possess. These searches will sort through the thousands of candidates and retrieve the resumes of the most qualified individuals.    It takes less than fifteen minutes to enter the search criteria and view the retrieved information.

With the number of available IT jobs constantly on the rise, businesses are realizing that, in the race to fill
positions, the competition is steep. Although on-line job databases promise and deliver thousands of resumes with the speed of the Internet, organizations are finding that they need real results in real time in order to stay ahead of the pack.

According to the Internet Technology Assocation of America, 1.6 million IT jobs will become available in the year 2000. Of these, 825,000 will remain unfilled this year. TheShortList.com
offers an easy, reliable way of bringing top IT employers together with top IT professionals.

TheShortList.com already hosts over fifty employers involved in e-commerce and new employers are being added every day. They range from large, established firms to explosive, rapidly-growing pre/IPOs. TheShortList.com gives their candidates increased exposure in the type of company and position that matches their skills and desires while eliminating time and effort wasted on fruitless interviews that lead nowhere.

For more information, please contact Megan L. Sprankle at TheShortList.com, 3181 Allison Drive, Gibsonia, PA 15044, Telephone: 877.778.3754, Email msprankle@theshortlist.com, or visit
www.theshortlist.com.