HR-XML standard is a set of XML specifications that allows e-business and data-exchange automation in the human resources area. This new version (HR-XML 3.0) of the HR-XML standards aligns its schemas for human resources interoperability applications with the Open Applications Group implementation of UN/CEFACT (United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business) core components, making them more universal than ever.
By developing and publishing open data exchange standards based on XML, the HR-XML Consortium provides the means for any company to transact with other companies without having to establish, engineer, and implement many separate interchange mechanisms.
Over the years, a variety of custom XML formats have been developed for resumes and CVs, but none of them has grown popular enough to become an industry standard. While there is nothing wrong with writing resumes the old way, putting some kind of structure to resumes would be beneficial.
One of the XML vocabularies published by HR-XML is the candidate specification. This specification defines a resume or CV document in pure XML, allowing the content to be processed and exchanged easily.
Instead of treating resumes as just regular binary blobs of PDF or .doc files, search engines could actually be made to do a lot more with structured resumes.
Right now each Recruitment Agency, Job Board or Employer has to maintain its own database, with no way of converting the information in the database to an actual usable resume. Imagine if people could just upload their structured resumes in some repository (with the appropriate access control etc) and then searching would become so much more manageable.
Maintaining different formats of my resume and keeping them consistent with one another is a huge effort. A structured resume offers an elegant solution to this problem.
Write your resume once in some format, and then there will be tools to take that specification and convert it to whatever format you want. For each format, you might be able to control the presentation separately.
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Email is a very effective way of attracting candidates and clients to your website. This morning, I received an email job alert reminder notifying me that unless I renew my subscription, it will expire in 26 days. Why didn't I think of this function earlier? What an effective way to keep your database up to date!
Chances are, you spent a fair amount of money and energy to build your job alert/email database. Except, over time we change email addresses and forget to unsubscribe from mailing lists.
If you think about it, the cost to reconstitute a clean, ready-to-mail, no-bounce list may be significantly lower than acquiring a new subscriber. Do the math and figure out whether having a clean, deliverable database of subscribers who have maintained a relationship with your agency is worth the investment.
If you haven’t already done so, you need to verify and clean your email database regularly. These actions may include
Identify and remove email addresses that are no longer deliverable - soft/hard bounces
Remove duplicate email addresses (if you don't already check the database before adding a new email address)
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Australian Job Board Statistics measuring the total unique browsers between September 2008 and September 2009. Data source - Nielsen NetRatings. SEEK 3.636m, CareerOne 1.601m, MyCareer 1.189m
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After 9 months of splash pages and redirecting visitors to a number of different job boards. Taleo has released the new job board and career portal for NSW Government called jobs.NSW
The site design and layout is clean, fresh and appealing to the eyes. Unfortunately I was let down by the complicated job search form and lack of job board features (eg RSS feeds).
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IT job boards must be all the rage at the moment. If you have been observing the marketplace over the past few months, you may have noticed a number of changes. Gurus had a makeover. JobNet (one of the first job board in Australia owned by JobServe) re-launches. IT2 (owned by ITCRA) re-launched and changed technology platforms from MyCareer to CareerOne/turboRECRUIT. And now, MyCareer will re-launch ITJobs in conjunction with CBS Interactive.
Dust off your BASIC & COBOL skills, Y2K is approaching. Old job sites are new again! The domain name itjobs.com.au was used previously as a job board by Fairfax between 1998 - 2003.
Is the marketplace big enough for any more players?
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With a combination of automatic translation software and the power of mass collaboration, Google Translator Toolkit is helping an Australian recruitment software vendor the ability to translate their software into Arabic. Previously, we discussed the possibility of translating recruitment websites into other languages, but what if you could translate your promotions and products for free?
Automatic language translation often fails to understand the context of a word and usually misinterprets recruitment terminology. To address this flaw, Recruitment Systems are now sharing screenshots of their TRIS software with Arabic speakers to create much more accurate translations.
This form of crowdsourcing combines the speed of automatic translation with the logic of human translation and the only cost to Recruitment Systems is the prize they are offering to one lucky translator (an F1 racing experience).
This is not the first time the power of the crowd has been used to translate a system. Facebook translated their pages into more than 65 different languages. Even so, Recruitment Systems' TRIS Recruitment CRM product is to be the first major ATS to be available in Arabic.
As you can see in the screenshot below, Arabic-speaking recruiters are presented with a split screen to compare English and Arabic text. When the document was uploaded it was automatically translated and 24% of the words were accurate. As people contribute to the translation, the system selects the most accurate Arabic words to use.
If you understand Arabic and you would like to take part in this recruitment software translation, visit the website.
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How many times have you joined a social networking site and wished that your friends would be there with you? Most of us have established friends/contact lists on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. So how can we make it easy for the user to invite their network to your website?
We know that the best way to generate genuine traffic is by referrals. Allowing your users to invite/import their friends and contacts from the various number of social networking or email providers is a popular method to virally grow your website subscribers.
Some users may have a small number of friends, where as others may have THOUSANDS!
By adding an import function, users can simply connect with their existing social networks or contact lists to invite/notify them of your website.
If you are going to add this function, you need to make it as smooth (and transparent) as possible. There are a variety of importing scripts in the marketplace and it is smarter not to reinvent the wheel if someone else has already made it.
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Automatic software translation has many downsides. Not all words can be translated and often words can mean different things in different languages. Also, graphical text is unable to be translated.
In this example we are using Google Translate to automatically translate this job board from Japanese to English.
Original
Original with translated tooltip
Translation with original tooltips (note: Image tabs not translated)
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Instead of treating resumes as just regular binary blobs of PDF or .doc files, search engines could actually be made to do a lot more with structured resumes. 
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Chances are, you spent a fair amount of money and energy to build your job alert/email database. Except, over time we change email addresses and forget to unsubscribe from mailing lists. 
We know that the best way to generate genuine traffic is by referrals. Allowing your users to invite/import their friends and contacts from the various number of social networking or email providers is a popular method to virally grow your website subscribers. 
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