How good is a computer at matching candidates to your job openings? That's what we'll find out at this first Vendor Smackdown. Part demo, part challenge and 100 percent enlightening, our company sampler will give you a feel for both the nature of job matching as well as how effective this new trend in sourcing can be. Our companies will be challenged to find matches for a typical job req as they explain how they made the match and then answer your toughest questions.

Jobfox not only matches candidates to jobs, it makes personal introductions of candidates to highly matched employers via instant messaging, mobile text messaging and e-mail alerts. In addition to precision matching, Jobfox combines job listings, resume databases, social networking and outside recruiters in a single package. Presenter Steven Toole is vice president of employer marketing at Jobfox.

Jobstick made a splash at the 2008 OnRec conference where it was named a Game Changing Recruiting Technology. Using its profile-matching technology, Jobstick Filter automatically screens out under- and over-qualified applicants making matches in real-time! Jobstick Filter powers a company's career and also integrates into a company's existing ATS to help HR staff identify top matches for each open position. The company was founded by CEO Avi Marcus, a lawyer.

Vitruva is a semantic job matching system that connects job candidates with job opportunities, notifying them of opportunities that fit their unique skills, work experience and work preferences without the need to search in the traditional sense. Employers and recruiters access qualified candidates for free and pay only for the highest-ranking job candidates. Jindrich Liska is the founder and chief executive officer.

Monster Worldwide. Trovix launched as an ATS vendor in 2002, implementing artificial intelligence to analyze reqs and candidate resumes and match them in ranked order. The matching technology was refined over the years and in 2007 Trovix introduced its own jobboard where standard job postings and resumes and jobseeker information were matched. In July 2008 Monster Worldwide, Inc., acquired the company in what CEO Sal Iannuzzi called a "a game-changing development." Jeff Benrey, now senior vice president of technology for Monster Worldwide, is a co-founder and former CEO of Trovix.