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Online job-hunting goes one step higher as job fairs
can now go paperless, reducing the time spent in applications and
eliminating the bulk of work frequently associated with countless
resumes being deposited in dozens of boxes. Applicants still have to
line up, look for work and give out their curriculum vitae—but
registration can be done online beforehand and CVs can be captured
digitally in one card, which is the sole thing handed out to the
different companies for job application.
JobsDB Phils., Inc., a
recruitment network in Asia, which partners with the Consortium of
Women’s Colleges (CWC), has launched this pioneering practice in
the very first paperless job fair for universities and other
educational institutions on January 25 and 26 at the SM Megatrade
Hall of the SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.
This major career fair, entitled
The CWC Career and Admissions Fair 2007, heralded a major
breakthrough in the employment and education industries by bringing
the process of job application a few levels higher in the digital
age.
It has introduced the Career
Card, which also creates a level playing field for all jobseekers,
white-collar and blue-collar, rich and poor, educated and
technically trained, alike.
“The Career Card contains the
jobseeker’s resume which he can update any time. That is all that
he needs to show each recruiting company which will then encode his
resume into their system by simply clicking to the Career Card with
a device similar to the bar-code system in our business
establishments,” JobsDB Country Manager and Career Times columnist
Jayjay Viray explained.
She explained that the Career
Card helps cut the cost of job hunting because “the less
privileged jobseeker no longer has to print several resumes which he
may not be able to afford.” Moreover, it helps reduce any avenues
for discrimination. Viray said that “sometimes, a poor technical
worker’s resume is not screened simply because the quality of the
paper is not as crisp or as white as the white-collar applicants.”
JobsDB has always taken the reins
to continually introduce technological innovations into the
recruitment industry. Six years ago, it took the lead in
establishing online job posting and the Internet job search. Last
year, it encouraged jobseekers to register online days or weeks
prior to attending a job fair in order to streamline the flow of
applicants in the event, and make the process one smooth but
productive journey for all concerned. JobsDB Phils. Inc. holds an
average of four job fairs a month: many of them reach to the schools
and the grassroots; others, like the CWC, are meant to draw in
crowds on a larger scale.
“Like online job hunting, the
Career Card and the paperless job fairs are fairly new developments
that people will soon take to and become familiar with,” offered
Viray. “We believe that, pretty soon, all these will become as
common and as popular as the Internet job search.
She elaborated: “Many people
are now familiar with surfing the Net for work and sending their
resumes online. What [the paperless jobs fair] aimed to do was bring
that same kind of ease, convenience, and cost-effectiveness out of
cyberspace into the so-called real world of the campuses, convention
centers, and trade fairs where the jobseekers and employers actually
meet in real time.”
JobsDB Phils., Inc. is the
Philippine branch of the Hong Kong-based employment firm, which
posts an average of 50,000 job postings a day in the region which
envelops other arms in countries such as Thailand, Singapore,
Australia, Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan, China, India, Indonesia and
Australia. The Philippine website alone (www.jobsdb.com.ph) posts
3,000 job openings daily that can be accessed at any given time
through the Internet.
The Consortium of Women’s
Colleges is an association of four prestigious women’s
universities that seek to empower women all over the country through
transformative education—Assumption College, the College of the
Holy Spirit of Manila, Miriam College, and St. Scholastica’s
College.
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