Method and system for filling vacancies

Abstract

This invention concerns filling vacancies. It may be applied to finding replacements during staff shortages, or to filling entire rosters. It may also be used to fill casually occurring service needs, such as the need-for a child minding placement. The invention involves entering availability details into a candidate data store, and entering vacancy details into a vacancy data store. Automatic cross-matching of each vacancy to availability details create a list of available candidates for each vacancy. Automatically ordering the list for each vacancy ranks the candidates according to predetermined criteria. The vacancies are then filled with the top ranking available candidate. This may be performed automatically or involve the transmission of invitations and acceptances. The invitations may be automatically dispatched, and the responses may automatically update the data. It may be layered to integrate the filling of a vacancy with the provision of a service for a related period of time. For instance, integrating the filling of a teaching or nursing staff vacancy with the provision of child minding services for the same period.

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] This invention concerns filling vacancies. It may, for example, be applied to finding replacements during staff shortages, or to filling entire rosters. It may also be used to fill casually occurring service needs, such as the need for a child minding placement. It may be layered to integrate the filling of a vacancy with the provision of a service for a related period of time. For instance, integrating the filling of a teaching or nursing staff vacancy with the provision of child minding services for the same day. BACKGROUND ART [0002] Currently throughout education, medical, commercial, hospitality and retail industries, one of the most onerous and time-consuming tasks is finding replacement employees at short notice. This activity frequently takes place under time constraints and may not result in the best available person or best qualified person being found. [0003] Also, a large pool of potentially available personnel, namely parents of young children, ca...

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Benefits of technology

[0019] The first ranked candidate may be automatically preliminarily booked and considered unavailable for the dates and hours included in an invitation during the time that the invitation remains open to that candidate, or until they transmit a response. This avoids the problems associated with a candidate receiving multiple conflicting offers from different vacancy data stores. Alternatively, multiple offers may be allowed, especially where those offers are to commence some considerable time in the future, and once the candidate accepts one of them, a rejection is automatically recorded for the others.

Problems solved by technology

Currently throughout education, medical, commercial, hospitality and retail industries, one of the most onerous and time-consuming tasks is finding replacement employees at short notice.

This activity frequently takes place under time constraints and may not result in the best available person or best qualified person being found.

Also, a large pool of potentially available personnel, namely parents of young children, cannot be utilized because they are unable to find child-minding services at short notice.

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