Automated method for selecting personnel matched to job criteria

A method of selecting none or more candidates from a database of candidates wherein the database of candidates includes a list of candidates and their respective qualifications, the method comprising the steps of:

• a. creating a requirement record comprising
• i. a first plurality of files including fields of information required for contacting a customer;
• ii. a customer code file which includes a predefined list of certain company names;
• iii. a job criteria file having fields for recording customer selections of job criteria from a predefined list of selection criteria wherein the list of selection criteria is presented in English;
• b. if the customer is listed in the customer code file, then creating a database of all candidates having experience with the customer;
• c. if the customer is not listed in the customer code file, then retaining the contact information;
• d. selecting any one of a one or more main types of qualifications;
• e. displaying logically progressively more restrictive qualification selections in response to the selected one of the one or more main types of qualifications;
• f. selecting any one of the logically progressively more restrictive qualifications and repeating steps e and f until displaying a final menu screen showing a plurality of logically progressively most restrictive qualifications;
• g. showing on the final menu screen a quantity of candidates available for each of the plurality of logically progressively most restrictive qualifications so as to allow prediction of an outcome of the number of selected candidates;
• h. repeating steps d through g for selecting none or more other main types of qualifications;
• i. processing customer selections resulting in an alphabetical display showing candidate names, coded education, length of total experience, and billing rates in a matrix format and indicating by asterisks candidates having customer selected qualifications and reserving a column in the matrix to indicate past experience with the customer;
• j. optionally performing any one or all of the steps of:
• i. broadening qualification selections to increase the quantity of selected candidates;
• ii. tightening the qualification selections to decrease the quantity of selected candidates;
• iii. changing qualification selections;
• iv. viewing resumes of selected candidates;
• v. deleting a selected candidate from the display;
• and
• k. creating a record of the displayed matrix.