First of all, calculate the amount of time your district spends on every applicant receiving inquiries about jobs, receiving and checking applications, handling references, license information, transcripts and other university credentials. Also there is time spent on following up on incomplete applications, filing and storing applications, and sorting applications in preparation for possible interviews.

Now multiply the amount of time you spend, per applicant, times the number of applications you receive per year. Next, consider that the NSAN system relieves your school district of all of these responsibilities, so you can invest your valuable resources in other, more important ways.

You can provide a profile of your school district so applicants will learn more about you. Also, you can post all vacant positions to the NSAN system so prospective applicants across the United States will see your job openings.

A very important benefit is that you can conduct online, custom searches on the applicant pool. Therefore you can narrow applicant searches to produce only those select individuals meeting specific requirements, such as grade point average, teaching experience and sponsorship of certain co-curricular activities.

Sure, some applicants will be reluctant at first. However, the NSAN system simply requires that applicants be able to type their applications as they typically would do and click the mouse to send the application on file with your school district. Plus, help is always as close as the step-by-step guide and a toll-free phone number.

NSAN has its own "server," so you dial directly into the NSAN system and avoid the potential problems other people encounter in using commercial servers. In addition, all applications are verified by the applicant and saved on a backup system.

The NSAN system provides easy-to-follow instructions in the "Guide to Successfully Using the Online Human Resources Center." Then school district staff follow the simple, on-screen directions to sort applications according to criteria specified by the district. In short, virtually no computer skills are required to successfully us the NSAN system.

Once the system instantly sorts the applications according to your instructions, you can view and immediately print the applications you select.

No! The NSAN system makes no decisions for you. You remain fully in charge of the decisions of whom to interview and whom to hire.

Absolutely! There is a one-time, modest start-up cost and the annual investment for the comprehensive NSAN system is less than $80 a month. For this investment, you receive:

• reduced time, energy and frustration spent on paperwork
• human resource energy redirected toward more important priorities
• fast, accurate sorting of applications based on criteria you specify
• posting all vacant positions on the Internet for world-wide exposure