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Casino Careers Online Ensures Confidentiality of Candidate Information.


MARLTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1999--

Online recruitment and job hunting is a hot topic -- and so is the issue of confidentiality.

With over 4,000 candidates in their resume database, Beth Deighan, president of Casino Careers Online (http://www.casinocareers.com), stressed the importance of ensuring the integrity and security of information posted to a resume database, as well as maintaining the confidentiality of candidates.

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 recent articles published in the July issues of Fortune Magazine and PC World, online recruitment and job-hunting has increased dramatically in 1999. One of the key issues, stressed in the Fortune Magazine series of articles on this topic, focused on the confidentiality of candidate information.

"Today's technology enables resume spidering to infiltrate infiltrate /in·fil·trate/ (in-fil´trat)
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 resume databases which are not protected by privately issued usernames and passwords," said Deighan.

"As the first gaming-industry resume database, we took major precautions precautions Infectious disease The constellation of activities intended to minimize exposure to an infectious agent; precautions imply that the isolation of an infected Pt is optional, but not mandatory.  to assure our candidates that the information that was posted to our database would be maintained at the highest level of security," she continued.

"Candidates who post their resumes on our web site, can be confident that the information they provide will not be sold to companies marketing their products. Nor will their personal information be accessible to companies that are now utilizing software to infiltrate resume databases with the objective of sending that information to other web sites," she explained.

The Casino Careers Online resume database issues a secure username The name you use to identify yourself when logging into a computer system or online service. Both a username (user ID) and a password are required. In an Internet e-mail address, the username is the left part before the @ sign. For example, KARENB is the username in karenb@mycompany.  and password to each candidate who posts a resume, and the resume is not activated activated

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 until the candidate has logged in and entered this information.

Drop down screens provide instruction to candidates who elect to post a resume in confidential format, on how to describe their knowledge, skills, and abilities, without revealing the actual locations of their employment, to further protect their anonymity.

"Our system even allows our candidates to respond to a company from their resume's Edit Menu The Edit menu is a menu found in most computer programs that handle files, text or images. It is often the second menu in the menu bar, next to the file menu.

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 on our web site," said Deighan. "Their correspondence will only reflect their confidential ID number and our email address See Internet address. ."

Casino Careers Online is partnering with World Gaming Network to link their web sites to enable companies recruiting from the Casino Careers Online web site, to easily access World Gaming Network's pre-screening and background checking services online, at discounted prices.

"Our professional alliance will make us the only two web sites exclusively designed for the gaming industry, to unite to provide recruitment and employment screening services online," said Julie Hakman, general manager of World Gaming Network.

Both companies will be exhibiting at the World Gaming Congress in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , NV, on September 14-16, in booths 751 and 902. Deighan and Hakman will also present a seminar on "Alternative Methods of Recruitment and Selection" on 9/16 at WGC WGC World Gold Council
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Casino Careers Online is an Internet resume database at the web site: http://www.casinocareers.com, which enables Candidates seeking career opportunities in the gaming industry to create and post their resumes for free, in open access or confidential format. Companies can register as annual Corporate Members, to access the database and post jobs on an unlimited basis, or they can subscribe for job posting services.
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