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Soon his efforts paid off and his business started to prosper.

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As this business grew, he started getting better and better equipment for it. Harrison believes that having work is a privilege and that it is the most important thing one can have. It was this belief that fuelled his success at EmploymentCrossing. He says that work deserves to be cherished and held in the highest possible esteem. According to Harrison, work is lifeblood; without work, everything stops. It was his passion for work that created EmploymentCrossing, a classic job board for every job seeker in almost any industry.

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During his career as an attorney Harrison worked for a broad range of clients including the US government and several South American governments in a number of cases involving a variety of issues including breach of contract, trademark infringement, personal injury, Internet law, intellectual property, tax, and employment matters. Harrison's career as a lawyer gave him insight into the legal career of attorneys and proved a great help later in his career when he created EmploymentCrossing.

Harrison's Dictum for Success: Increase Efficiency Continuously Every business targets at lowering costs and increasing profits in a process of continuous improvement. According to Harrison this means that an employer is always looking for ways to eliminate an employee who is stagnant and is not increasing efficiency.

All jobs are threats to the company and its profits, and companies are always looking for ways to do away with the them. Harrison says that the best way to survive is to increase your efficiency continuously. According to Harrison, "You always need to be on the side of efficiency and increasing the output of the company at the lowest cost possible.

If you are against efficiency, you will be seen as an enemy of the company and its growth. In those days computer programmers were like gods to companies. They took home hefty six-figure salaries and jumped between companies every now and then. Everyone believed that the next great frontier was software and the Internet and programmers were essential to this frontier. Thus they often felt like they could do whatever they wanted.

For Harrison's small company, he almost had to beg programmers to work. To his amazement, the programmers would stop working after four or five hours because they thought the work was boring. Searching for a solution, Harrison started building an office in India. In India Harrison's employees were enthusiastic about doing work and gave their work percent of their effort; this was working for Harrison.

Soon the dot-com bubble burst and there was simply no work for US programmers. It had all dried up. Then programmers were desperately looking for jobs and applications for any open positions flooded Harrison's office. By that time, though, Harrison had already found a large team of programmers for his company in India. Harrison says, "If your employers can do your job more cheaply elsewhere, then they will.

The more cheaply they can produce a product or service, the more they will sell the same. The more the product or service is sold, the more the company will grow and expand. He soon hit upon a billion-dollar idea. The best thing his company could do at that time was to help these people find their jobs. He did just that. The Launch of Employment Research Institute and Its Companies In the year , Harrison Barnes founded Juriscape today known as Employment Research Institute , and under its banner he started a collection of legal industry-specific job-search websites.

Being a lawyer himself Harrison knew exactly what attorneys wanted at every stage of their carrier. These sites soon became popular and revolutionized the way job seekers accessed employment postings from around the world. The move catapulted the company to the forefront of the US legal recruitment industry. This company, which was started in September , utilizes innovative and targeted direct-mailing strategies to assist attorneys and law students apply for and find jobs across the United States.

Soon Harrison realized that there was a need for comprehensive information about national and international legal job openings. In July , LawCrossing was launched. The site soon started attracting thousands of law students, lawyers, and legal staff who would visit the website every day to browse for jobs and exciting law-related career news and articles.

What Is Unique about Harrison's Companies? It was Harrison's unique idea which made more people get jobs quickly and effectively. Harrison's companies, including EmploymentCrossing, do not charge employers to post their job openings like most other job sites do ; they aggressively contact and investigate thousands of employers each day to learn of new positions. Job seekers become members of the sites and gain access to the huge number of open positions that are constantly updated at research facilities across its many offices.

Employment Research Institute Expands to Touch Even More Lives The superb response that LawCrossing garnered made Harrison want to move ahead and help those students who could not afford the hefty fees imposed by law schools get loans or other aid. Harrison wanted to assist law students with consolidating their law school debt and launched Law School Loans in January The next five months witnessed the creation of JD2B, which was launched on May This site was started by Harrison in response to the growing demand for legal information online.

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A fun-filled and interactive website, JD2B presents news, resources, blogs, and several other features for law school applicants, law students, and recent law school graduates. In November Harrison inaugurated Attorney Resume. A highly specialized company, Attorney Resume specializes on writing professional resumes and cover letters for attorneys and law students. January saw the launch of Law Firm Staff; a recruiting company tailored to meet the growing job-search needs of the staff working at law firms, from attorney associates and paralegals to law clerks and summer associates.

Harrison started two more affiliates in March An educational financing company, EdFed offers a variety of loan consolidation services to all types of students. This was one of his first ventures to cater to people outside of the legal community, and it has been a major success.

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When Judged was launched in , it became a must-see website for those who wished to venture behind the scenes of top law firms and law schools across the United States to see what is really taking place. During this time, Harrison and the management of Employment Research Institute saw how much they were able to financially help law students, and their thoughts turned towards helping all students, not just future attorneys, in other ways. Harrison Ventures outside the Legal Sector Having made a mark in the legal sector, Harrison now wanted to help those outside the legal industry.

He started exploring the market segment and launched two more services: SellingCrossing and Graduate School Loans. SellingCrossing, a sales job board, contains the most diverse collection of active sales jobs in the sales world. The website is a unique, searchable, and regularly updated platform offering great sales information to job seekers in the United States. Harrison launched Graduate School Loans with the idea to reach out to graduates and offer them loans and consolidation options featuring extremely competitive rates. Now trusted by millions, Harrison's companies saw a huge expansion in the year In the first quarter of , Harrison launched Hound.

Using technology that took two years to develop, Hound is today able to pull job listings from company sites throughout the world, giving its members the best opportunities to find and apply to jobs before they are advertised to the full market. During the same period, Medical School Loans was started; this site provides customized financial services to medical students and doctors needing student loans for medical education, consolidation, etc.

Getting a positive response from every venture he started, Harrison expanded his resume- and cover letter-writing services to all professionals in all career industries with the launch of ResumeApple. By this time Harrison was looking to consolidate his job boards under one single banner. He soon struck upon another idea. Profiles of 19 exceptional minority attorneys who have carved successful niches in a predominantly white industry.

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