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According to zREP, If Online Recruiting is So Hot, Why are the Big Job Boards Worried About Smaller, More Specialized Talent Exchanges Eating Their Lunch?


Business Editors, High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000

(...maybe bigger really isn't better without matching skills)

Online talent exchanges are discovering that the value of large candidate databases is limited without tools to estimate candidate quality and fit for specific jobs, according to according to
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 online recruiting experts at zREP -- and corporate recruiters are starting to notice.

Jakes Srinivasan, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 of zREP Inc., the only independent provider of quantifiable Quantifiable
Can be expressed as a number. The results of quantifiable psychological tests can be translated into numerical values, or scores.

Mentioned in: Psychological Tests
 reputation and skills scoring systems Noun 1. scoring system - a system of classifying according to quality or merit or amount
rating system

classification system - a system for classifying things
 in the global online talent exchange market, can address:
-- Why small, niche-focused talent exchanges are making inroads into the market
share of big exchanges - and why that's good for the corporate recruiter.

-- How big exchanges are trying to make their databases more effective -- and
why the functionality of matching systems is often the critical missing link.

-- What corporate recruiters really want from Internet-enabled recruiting --
and how they are using it to tap into the global marketplace for finance,
marketing and technology job candidates.


Srinivasan can also talk about:

-- Improving the effectiveness and time-to-market of online

service exchanges and career sites, in the U.S. and globally.

-- Using quality-based match facilitation Facilitation

The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions.
 tools to improve

business leverage of the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 in recruiting.

-- Employing standardized standardized

pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures.


standardized morbidity rate
see morbidity rate.

standardized mortality rate
see mortality rate.
 models for matching talent with job

openings, particularly in the technology sector.

zREP Inc. (www.zrep.com) is the only provider of reputation and skills scoring systems to the online recruitment market, including talent and service exchanges, career networks, and independent and corporate recruiters. The zREP match-facilitation system improves online recruitment results by enhancing and automating candidate scoring and pre-selection matching. The zREP scoring engine is powered by taxonomies covering thousands of professional skills and positions, ratings on thousands of global schools, certifications and other credential-related information, and independent verification of skills and background. zREP operates as an ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja).  with co-branded online interfaces and supports the needs of its customers through a number of operational models. The zREP system is built upon fully scaleable systems with high data security. zREP(TM) (pending) and zREPutation(TM) are trademarks of zREP Inc.
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