How would the Internet Applicant rule work in practice?
Here is an example of how the Internet Applicant rule would work: • A contractor initially searches an external job database with 50,000 job seekers for 3 basic qualifications for a bi-lingual emergency room nursing supervisor job—a 4-year nursing degree, state certification as an RN, and fluency in English and Spanish. • The initial screen for the first 3 basic qualifications narrows the pool to 10,000. The contractor then adds a fourth, pre-established, basic qualification—3 years of emergency room nursing experience—and narrows the pool to 1,000. • Finally, the contractor adds a fifth, pre-established, basic qualification—2 years of supervisory experience—which results in a pool of 75 job seekers. Under the Internet Applicant rule, only the 75 job seekers meeting all five basic qualifications would be Internet Applicants, assuming the other three prongs of the “Internet Applicant” definition were met.
