Internet recruitment companies are preparing their own code of conduct this week after reports of cowboy operators abusing the system. Unscrupulous agencies are reported to have started creating false vacancies and begun exaggerating pay and package claims. This is illegal in newsprint, but has yet to be challenged in relation to the internet. Legitimate e-cruitment companies will eventually have to sign up to the new code.

Now, a Canadian company has taken a large step forward in making "E-cruitment" work, through sophisticated software that sorts through and ranks the candidates for a job and a data base that is so far drawing some big names in the computer industry.

'Are you going to the virtual fair, 'cause all the e-cruiters are there?'

Chad Morissette tosses off that ditty as one of the people actively working to make the terms 'e-cruitment' and 'e-cruiter' part of the lingo of business.