permial@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (John Higdon) (08/22/89)
I am posting this for a friend, but feel free to e-mail directly
to me and I will forward.
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JobTrac - On-Line Interactive Recruiting Services
TAKE TWO PROBLEMS AND CREATE ONE SOLUTION!
Several years ago, Dallas was faced with a particularly
difficult dilemma, when a major employer suddenly filed for
bankruptcy leaving over 5,000 area residents out of work,
with no notice.
Local agencies were unprepared to cope with such massive
numbers. Applicants ranging from corporate vice presidents
to janitors to dish washers to pilots and secretaries
desperately needed assistance.
But, how do you deal with such large numbers effectively,
efficiently and fairly, when so many are involved?
What Dallas needed was a computerized job bank to handle the
job orders pouring in from the business lead rapid response
team, information on applicants, as well as, a system to
coordinate the response.
From these problems, JobTrac was born!
JobTrac is a sophisticated database program that stores job
opening information, in user-defined job clusters, stores
complete personal resumes of applicants seeking assistance
in similarly defined clusters and can if, requested mix and
match them.
Further, to assist the user, JobTrac remembers what resumes
and jobs you've already reviewed, and alerts the user to
anything new being listed since their last log-on.
JobTrac, additionally, contains an interactive,
password-protected electronic mail system, and informational
bulletins containing such diverse information as the how to
write a better resume, area job hotlines, Job Fair
schedules, labor market news and more.
But, what is most unique about JobTrac is that JobTrac is
open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and to
anyone, anywhere, with access to a computer, a modem and a
telephone.
In fact, JobTrac has handled between 25-50 phone calls a day
from throughout Dallas, Texas and the country, since 1985,
and has assisted over 300 in finding new jobs.
There are three levels of JobTrac access: Job Seekers,
Employers and Network Members.
Job seekers can access from homes, libraries, or
community-based agencies and have access to job opening
informational want-ads, can up/load (copy their resumes
directly to the JobTrac database), and review informational
bulletins. Employers can directly list their job opening
want-ads, down/ load resumes (transfer an applicants resume
from JobTrac to their own computers - this process takes
about 20 seconds per resume) and access informational
bulletins about JTPA, labor market trends and news and views
regarding the world of work, such as changes in the law in
regard to employment (recent topics included the new rules
governing polygraph tests and the new law regarding
pre-notification of lay-off.
Network members are cooperating libraries, community-based
agencies and the volunteers who maintain the system.
JobTrac was created and is maintained by the Dallas Alliance
of Business. It runs in both monochrome and color, and
averages about 150 resume on any given day and about 200 job
openings, and is compatible with most computers.
One particularly attractive feature of JobTrac is that it's
NOT expensive to set-up, not difficult to learn how to use,
and its free.
The real key to making the system work, is getting
local/area business involved in leaving their job opening
want-ads. A little over 100 Dallas area companies access
JobTrac monthly. However, JobTrac does receive many calls
from all over the United States each month.
JobTrac also has encouraged private employment agencies to
access the system.
The JobTrac systems was created by volunteers, on loan from,
EDS Corporation, on equipment purchased with funds donated
by IBM Corporation and E-Systems.
JobTrac's daily operational expenses are off-set entirely by
donations and help from volunteers.
Many of JobTrac's volunteers are unemployed high tech
workers, and as might be expected many of JobTrac's resumes
and users are programmers and high tech firms.
If you would like to sample JobTrac, call 214-528-4754 with
your computer and follow the easy instructions to gain
access. For more information about the JobTrac system,
contact:
Kerry L. Goodwin, President
Dallas Alliance of Business
4501 Lemmon Avn. Dallas, Tx
75219. (Voice - 528-6130)
The Dallas Alliance of Business' JobTrac system was created
for and dedicated to assistance to displaced workers, but,
only imagination limits its potential.
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No Disclamer! John R. Higdon
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