会社は応募者全員を面接できないので、人数を書類選考である程度絞り込まなければなりません。

そして書類選考を通った人だけが入社試験を受験できます。だから履歴書をおろそ…

As for the e-signatures, EchoSign may be fine for some, but there are many others doing this (most long before them), including Silanis, Yozons, Alamode, eOriginal, Sertifi, AlphaTrust, Entrust, RSA, iLumin….

Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future…

Better words than my own to describe some of what we’re doing:

http://www.simpleandloveable.c.....-made-easy

“so while we were midway through a skype call, they fired me the NDA through the online echosign service. I reviewed it, was happy, so gave my electronic agreement in echosign, and its done! No faxing (although it will fax or allow you to fax in if required), just a super simple way of confirming agreement between companies online.

Seconds later I had their business scope and strategy document in front of me and they were happily pouring their great ideas down the line, and after an hour we were close to coming to a deal. No time lags, no faxes, complete trust, everybody happy.”

Are they considering moving to a full service electronic signature model like Docusign, Adobe, Silanis or PrivaSign.com? Keeping the file in its electronic format is so much more effecient for both the sender and the recipient that I hope they will progress that way sooner rather than later, but as I said I do see some use for the service.

I also notice that Jason Lemkin mentions something about being the only free e-signature option. I am really not sure what that means? I see free signature options from everyone out there, and especially for the recipient which is what I believe he is referring to.

Lance

A few comments on items 11 & 12: (1) there is a clear audit trail in EchoSign now. Click on “History” on the Agreement page and you can see exact when a document was sent; signed by either party; and when copies were sent out. (2) We do make fax much much easier. But it can still be a pain. We also offer the web’s easiest (and only free) e-signature option - then you can sign in seconds. It’s turned out to be much more popular (vs. fax signatures) than we anticipated.

Jason Lemkin, CEO

Has this system ever been tested in a court of law?

Just like eFax, there is a fair use policy in the T&Cs which require the user to upgrade to a paid account if the usage exceeds the number of pages considered fair use. Anyone who is doing a reasonable amount of business and is using this service will most likely exceed the fair use amount and will need to get a paid account.

Here are some of our thoughts on some of the points identified above…

Confidentiality - It’s critical to the success of EchoSign that our customers are confident that their documents are not view able by anybody other than the parties exchange the document for signature . We have intentionally designed a n automatic, secure system in which no human is involved in document exchange, and in which the documents are only accessible to the user with their passwords.

From a messaging perspective, we recognize that for certain of our users, ASP security is going to be an ongoing challenge - but we also see the parallels with email. Everyone is used to emailing their “sensitive docs” to each other - and each of the email providers, especially the webmail guys (gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc.) have even more access to these docs than we do. But this issue is still very valid. We’re hoping that efax, salesforce and gmail have blazed the trail for us.

E-signatures - We agree with “Z” that esignatures are still waiting to take off. That’s why our primary product uses the same workflow that everyone is comfortable with today - email as an attachment, print sign and fax back. If and when you want to use esignatures, you can e-sign through EchoSign as well (we enable this feature once you first send 3 docs out for regular fax signature). We think e-signatures are more useful in the short-term for signing agreements between parties that have ongoing relationships - such as standard PO’s between a supplier and a vendor, approvals of expense reports and general sign-offs of change orders.

And on multiple recipients - The feature is there, just not promoted yet. You can send a document to a dozen people to sign if, like other webmail services, you just list all the potential recipients in the “To” line separated by a comma or semicolon. It’s turned out to be a great way to get form compliance documents signed by multiple employees, for example (e.g., a new HR policy).

Please do keep the comments coming and we’ll use them to prioritize features in our coming releases.

1 - because of confidentiality issues I’d need to ask every other party whether they consented to the use of a third-party service for this purpose.

2 - the email interface doesn’t seem to work with multiple recipients.

3 - I assume that the end product is an emailed pdf (perhaps I’m wrong), but the file size of an image pdf is much larger than one produced from the text file. At most, I want the sig pages scanned. This results in a smaller file size and a searchable, editable pdf.