Employee hiring by means of a single electronic docket communicated over a network

A networked method for recruiting personnel for a business entity having a plurality of distinct business units, each having individual hiring requirements, in which at least some of said distinct business units compete for the same applicants, said method comprising the steps of:

• correlating hiring needs from at least one of said distinct business units with information from resumes of job hunters to identify putative job candidates from whom a job application is desired;
• setting up a single electronic docket for each said putative job candidate, and making said single electronic docket available on a network;
• providing each said putative job candidate, by way of said network, with access to electronic job application forms, which when filled out and returned over said network by each said putative candidate becomes part of said single electronic docket of a job applicant, and entering into said single electronic docket of said job applicant information relating to at least the fact that the forms were so provided;
• providing to each said job candidate, by way of said network, an invitation to an interview, specifying the time and location for said interview, and entering into said single electronic docket at least information identifying said time and location of said interview;
• substantially simultaneously with said provision of said invitation, and by way of said network, advising a selected hiring manager of the scheduling of said interview, and providing access by way of said network to said single electronic docket associated with said job candidate who is to be interviewed;
• conducting an interview between said selected hiring manager and said job candidate, and entering a hiring assessment into said single electronic docket;
• substantially simultaneously with said interview, and by way of said network, performing an assessment of at least one of security and compensation based upon the information in said single electronic docket, and entering the result of said assessment into said single electronic docket;
• substantially simultaneously with, but after, said interview, reviewing the contents of said single electronic docket, making a decision as to whether to make an offer to said job candidate, and entering said decision into said single electronic docket;
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• if said decision is affirmative, electronically generating a hard-copy paper offer for transmission to said job applicant.