Mr. Jamie Erickson

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Jamie Erickson, vice-president of human resources, says the company pays about $15,000 a year for résumé-sorting software called TalentFlow, developed by Toronto firm Brainhunter.com.TalentFlow takes all the résumés in the company's database and plucks out an A-candidate list.

Mr. Erickson says the software was used with 40 per cent of all hires last year.

And he estimates it saved tens of thousands of dollars, not only in headhunter costs but also in hours poring over hundreds of actual résumés.

"The people hours attached to that are absolutely huge.The cost goes through the roof and slows down productivity.This eliminates a huge step," he says.

But all the technology in the world can't take the place of a live interview.And companies such as Upward Motion and the McQuaig Institute don't even try to say it can.

On-line assessments should be used in addition to the face-to-face meetings rather than replacing them, they say.

Jamie Erickson, VP of Human Resources and Organization Development at Lavalife (formerly Interactive Media Group) with 450 employees says "cross-functional teams are an art" in his organization.
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According to Jamie Erickson, "if the project doesn't have alignment with organization goals, then functional silos do become a challenge".
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For example, Jamie Erickson says that his HR team is comfortable saying, for example, "excuse me but for the non-IT speaking population, could you put that in terms that I can understand?"And his own group responds positively to requests of "please don't speak in OD language, speak in real people speak".