[QuKa04]. The first large scale prototypes have been deployed in the domains of
             biomedical and bibliographic data integration [Schr04, QuKa04].
             The technological foundations of the Semantic Web are getting mature. What is
             still unclear are the economic effects the new technology will have on markets and
             enterprises. With our research, we approach potential impacts of semantic tech-
             nologies from the business and the technological viewpoint, in order to make pre-
             dictions about the influence of the new technologies on markets, enterprises, and
             individuals. Who will benefit? Who will lose his market position or will have to
             change his business model? This analysis of the participants' roles combined with
             the analysis of technological restrictions allows us to project whether a scenario is
             The Impact of Semantic Web Technologies on Job Recruitment Processes
             In section 2 of this paper, we describe how online recruitment processes can be
             streamlined using Semantic Web technologies. We describe the prototypical
             implementation of the required technological infrastructure in section 3, focusing on
             the ontologies used, the data integration infrastructure, and on semantic matching
             services. In section 4, we analyze the potential economic impacts of the realization
             of the scenario from the perspectives of the different participants.
             Supporting Recruitment Processes with Semantic Web Technologies
             A usual recruitment process as seen from the organization's viewpoint can be
             2. Publishing the job posting,
             3. Receiving and pre-selecting applications and
             4. Final recruitment decision.
             In this section, we describe how the different phases can be supported by Semantic
             Web technologies. The central building blocks of the scenario are the use of con-
             trolled vocabularies to annotate job postings and applications, and the use of RDF
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