Online Job searching is the act of looking for employment, due to unemployment or discontent with a current position. Looking at the current situation in Nigeria, many people are jobless and seeks for the best and easiest way of securing job without much delay. Morealso, there is this problem of advertising for vacancies in offices so as to reach the desired employees. When a wider reaching means is used for job adverts, the proberblity that more qualified persons will apply is high. So, this reasearch is looking for a way to bridge the gap between the employers and employees during the stage of employment advertising, shortlisting for interviews and finally employment shortlisting.
In this research work, a new system is designed to help build an online job search system. The system maintains a database of vacancies that exist in a company and also a database of job huntgers with all their credentials and job experience. Hence a search engine is designed to query the system for a particular category of workers. This will help to easy the burden of going through so many application letters before shortlisting for interview.
The system designed will be carried out using Php-Mysql.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The Online Career Center launched in 1993 as a non-profit organization backed by forty major corporations as a system for job hunters to store their resumes within the databases as well as for recruiters to post job openings to the databases (Matas, 1993).
In 1994 Robert J. McGovern began NetStart Inc. as software sold to companies for listing job openings on their Web sites and manage the incoming e-mails those listings generated. After an influx of two million dollars in investment capital (Peter, 1996) he then transported this software to its own web address, at first listing the job openings from the companies who utilized the software (Rajiv, 1996). NetStart Inc. changed its name in 1998 to operate under the name of their software, CareerBuilder. The company received a further influx of seven million dollars from investment firms such as New Enterprise Associates to expand their operations (Michael, 1998).
Six major newspapers joined forces in 1995 to list their classified sections online. The service was called CareerPath.com and featured help-wanted listings from the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and the Washington Post (Jesus, 1995).
The industry attempted to reach a broader, less tech-savvy base in 1998 when Hotjobs.com attempted to buy a Super Bowl spot, but Fox rejected the ad for being in poor taste. The ad featured a janitor at a zoo sweeping out the Elephant cage completely unbeknownst to the animal. The elephant sits down briefly and when it stands back up, the janitor has disappeared. The ad meant to illustrate a need for those stuck in jobs they hate, and offer a solution through their Web site (Sally, 1998). Hotjobs.com promptly fired the advertising agency who created the ad (Denise, 1998).
Monster.com gambled on a 1999 Super Bowl ad. CEO Jeff Taylor authorized three 30 second spots for a total of four million dollars. The ad which featured children speaking like adults, drolly intoning their dream of working at various dead-end jobs to humorous effect were far more popular than rival Hotjobs.com ad about a security guard who transitions from a low paying security job to the same job at a fancier building (Stuart, 1999). Monster.com was elevated to the top spot of online employment sites (Matt, 1999). Hotjobs.com's ad wasn't as successful, but it gave the company enough of a boost for its IPO in August (Rachel, 1999).
After being purchased in a joint venture by Knight Ridder and Tribune Company in July, CareerBuilder absorbed competitor boards CareerPath.com and then Headhunter.net which had already acquired CareerMosaic. Even with these aggressive mergers CareerBuilder still trailed behind the number one employment site Jobsonline.com, number two Monster.com and number three Hotjobs.com (James, 2000).
Monster.com made a move in 2001 to purchase Hotjobs.com for $374 million in stock, but were unsuccessful due to Yahoo's unsolicited cash and stock bid of $430 million late in the year. Yahoo had previously announced plans to enter the job board business, but decided to jump start that venture by purchasing the established brand (Mylene, 2001).
1.2 Statement of Problem
The success of jobs search engines in bridging the gap between jobseekers and employers has spawned thousands of job sites, many of which list job opportunities in a specific sector, such as education, health care, hospital management, academics and even in the non-governmental sector. These sites range from broad all-purpose job boards, to niche sites that serve various audiences, geographies, and industries. Many industry experts are encouraging jobseekers to concentrate on industry specific sector sites. With the increase in popularity of job sites, employees and employers are now using it as a meeting point for the purpose of recruitment. Major setback in companies today is the inability to reach out to the public during employment. Also the jobseekers most often do not know where to go and search for a job. The implementation of online job search system will bring the emplyees and employers closer.
1.3 Objectives of the Project
The general objective of the study is to develop an online job search system for institutions. The new system designed will among other things:
(i) Develop and maintain a database of applicants in every field of work.
(ii) Present a search module for searching for jobs and submitting CVs.
(iii) Present a platform for institution to post job vacancies on the websites.
1.4 Significance of the Study
This work could be useful for personnel managers or officers in an organization as well as those involved in research work on personnel management and recruitment system. It will assist managers to:
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