iProfile to change the way jobs advertised: ITCRA

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 06 August 2008 17:08

IT People - Recruitment

Peak IT recruitment body, the IT Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA), will play a key role in the Australian launch of UK developed online resume database iProfile in September and, according to its chief executive, will have representation on the board of the local branch of company when it opens its offices.

iProfile is an online CV system where candidates can store their resumes in a standardised format. The UK company of the same name recently annnounced a AUD$2.1 million deal with four Australian ICT recruiters who will adopt the system.

The system, which is almost universally used by ICT recruiters in the UK, has been introduced to Australia largely through contact between ITCRA and iProfile.

"We've been working on this for 18 months now," says Norman Lacy, executive director of ITCRA.

"iProfile is a software system that significantly enhances the efficiency of our members. It's a centralised resume database into which our members dump their existing databases into one centralised common XML format.

"From the moment our members dump their resumes in it, the resumes get formatted and duplicates get removed. For an embargoed period, only the agency that dumped that resume into the database has access to it.

"But after that period, whenever the IT professional goes in to update his resume, he gets the option of choosing which of the range of agencies that are partners in the system will have access to that resume.

"All the work in maintaining and keeping the resume up to date is done by the candidate. So it removes from our members the requirement to maintain these huge databases of resumes because it's all done automatically by the candidates."

So why is ITCRA involved and an advocate for the iProfile system?

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