Internet job boards took off after Monster.com and HotJobs.com advertised during the 1999 Super Bowl.
As portrayed in your book, it sounds awful to work at an Internet job.
More employers are extending their searches to other states and scouring the Internet job boards.
Some had no idea how to do an Internet job search, or even how to put together a résumé.
He was married, his band Lifter Puller had broken up, and he was thinking of getting an Internet job.
Perhaps most important, those who lack access to the Internet job bazaar will suffer restricted job opportunities.
Corporations also send recruiters to India, find workers through Internet job postings or bring them here from previous projects overseas.
Indeed, as referred candidates get fast-tracked, applicants from other sources like corporate Web sites, Internet job boards and job fairs sink to the bottom of the pile.
Among corporate recruiters, Mr. Sullivan said, random applicants from Internet job sites are sometimes referred to as "Homers," after the lackadaisical, doughnut-eating Homer Simpson.
TMP Worldwide Inc., the operator of the Internet job search site Monster.com, said yesterday that it had acquired System One Services Inc. for about $66 million in stock.
He added that he believed the method should give Imaxo an advantage over regular Internet job boards, whose postings, he said, attract low-quality candidates.
