Process for recruiting and certifying technician candidates

Automated process for recruiting technicians and pre-certifying them for a job position with any of a number of business owners in distributed over a number of different geographical locations to ensure that technician candidates presented to said business owners are willing and qualified;

• the process comprising;
• a. advertising for technician candidates to contact a host screening and certifying facility;
• b. accepting background information from the candidate including geographic location and background qualification data relevant to the job position;
• c. analyzing the background information accepted from said candidate to determine if said candidate meets at least minimum qualifications for said job position;
• d. if the background qualification data so analyzed indicate that the candidate does meet the minimum qualifications, providing at a host facility web site on a global computer network an on-line employment agreement for said candidate to read and sign;
• said agreement including a plurality of sub-parts which are directed to respective items of job responsibility, and which are to be individually and separately agreed to by the candidate;
• e. providing a plurality of acceptance blocks within the on-line employment agreement, each associated with a respective sub-part of said on-line employment agreement, and an acceptance block associated with the entire on-line employment agreement, for permitting said candidate reviewing said agreement and said sub-parts on-line for the candidate to affirmatively agree to the entire agreement and to each of said sub-parts, respectively;
• f. ensuring that the candidate has agreed to each said sub-part and to said entire agreement;
• g. if the candidate has agreed on-line to the entire agreement and to said sub-parts, then providing the candidate with an on-line document containing detailed information concerning procedures for said Job position that the candidate is expected to observe on the job;
• h. thereafter, providing said candidate with an on-line examination concerning said procedures for said job position, including a predetermined set of test questions, wherein said candidate completes said examination by answering said test questions on line;
• i. automatically scoring said on-line examination and recording a test score for said candidate;
• j. comparing said test score with a predetermined passing threshold;
• k. if said test score is below said passing threshold, notifying said candidate of failure to pass said examination;
• l. if said test score equals or exceeds said passing threshold, notifying said candidate of success in obtaining certification for said job position;
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• m. providing identification data of said candidate haying obtained certification to one or more of said business owners in or near the geographic location of the candidate.