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New Automotive Recruiting/Career Search Tool Offers Suppliers, OEMs Lower Cost, Quicker Search

26 January 1998

New Automotive Recruiting/Career Search Tool Offers Suppliers, OEMs Lower Cost, Quicker Search

    DECATUR, Ala., Jan. 26 -- AutoRecruiter(TM)
(http://www.autorecruiter.com), a unique new approach to on-line recruiting/career
searching, was officially launched today by Internet Career Site (ICS).  The
announcement was made by Jonathan Pannell, president and COO.
    Several partnering professional organizations provide AutoRecruiter with
an impressive pool of potential engineering and technical candidates.
Technical societies or organizations which support or are currently working
with AutoRecruiter include:

    -- Society of Automotive Engineers

    -- American Computer Scientists Association

    -- National Society of Professional Engineers

    -- Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation, University of
       Michigan (OSAT)

    -- Business Technology Development Center

    "New technologies in communications, specifically the Internet, hold the
promise of a delivery system that is accurate, reliable, and automated with a
significant cost reduction," said Dr. David Cole, director, OSAT.  "I see
promise in the AutoRecruiter system of being able to reach engineers and
technical personnel from a wide variety of disciplines to explore the
opportunities of automotive technology careers and to expand the reach of the
automotive employer."
    According to Pannell, the World Wide Web-based service has a distinct
advantage over other employment services or job posting Web sites because it
does not rely on "key-word searching" to create matches between employers and
technical job applicants.  Instead, pre-defined categories based on
applicants' real skills and abilities are used to create precise matches.
    "The designers of AutoRecruiter used real-world technical job recruiting
experience to create a simple and effective way of matching the cream of
technical, scientific and engineering candidates with appropriate job
opportunities, which eliminates frustrating searches and provides definitive
results every time," said Pannell.  "The end result for employers is a
recruiting tool of immense value that provides real solutions to many tedious
recruiting problems."
    As the "Baby Boomer" generation reaches retirement age, the resources of
qualified technical talent available to the automotive industry will continue
to diminish.  According to Pannell, AutoRecruiter provides a tool to ensure
this shrinking candidate base is isolated and matched with automotive
employers while conserving recruiting budgets.
    "By harnessing the potential power of the web, AutoRecruiter can help ease
the looming crisis of shortages in qualified technical personnel," said
Pannell.  "Often times success for an employer or candidate is a matter of
being in the right place at the right time.  AutoRecruiter and the Web can add
the element of precision and minimize the need for luck."
    Based in Huntsville, Ala., ICS (http://www.ICSJobs.com) is an emerging Web-tech
company which provides technical staffing resources to employers via the
Internet.  The company has attracted considerable attention for its innovative
search engine design.  Its efforts successfully  provide a workable solution
to the growing concerns over the shortage of technical personnel in the
automotive industry by extending recruiters' ability to reach more appropriate
candidates.
    ICS is one of just two companies to be accepted and adopted by the
Business Technology Development Center, a Huntsville, Ala.-based technical
incubator.

SOURCE  Internet Career Site