Alex Charles, Founder and Product Director of SkillsMarket, is speaking at this week's Recruitment International's conference in Manchester, where he will explore the rapid increase of online CVs. It is estimated that over a billion CVs are now stored online across a range of services from job boards to professional and social networks.

A new central pillar of the Internet is being formed around Career Management and is soon to take its place alongside the established giants of News, Shopping, Email, Social and Financial. This development will have a profound impact on the staffing sector; it will challenge conventional market models and pose new challenges in the areas of data management and security.

Unlike other domains, the Career and CV domain contains vast amounts of data contributed by the user, much of which is personal and sensitive data. This poses new challenges for integration and security.

As one of the founding directors of the European HR-XML consortium for Europe, which promotes the standard XML schema use throughout the HR community, Alex will also discuss the role of HR-XML and other standards in bringing solutions to some of these challenges.

Alex also chairs the ATSCo IT Director's Forum, where common strategic IT, product and service issues are discussed, and is becoming a well known speaker in the industry on recruitment data issues.

SkillsMarket will also be exhibiting at the show, giving recruitment companies based in the north the opportunity to see a demonstration of our award-winning resourcing tool, iPlace.

Date: Thursday 8th November
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Manchester

To find out more, contact SkillsMarket's sales team on 020 7025 0555 or click here to email us.