I have long wanted to do a "registry" of welders and inspectors myself. I just haven't worked out the logistics yet. There are so MANY resume databases that I had put resumes into in the past when I get contacted people tell me they found my resume on the website.
A search for "Welding Inspection" and Resume brings one of my old sites up usually on the 1st page on google. So I have sites that are well indexed. Its just a matter of making the data secure from the bums that don't have anything better to do with their time than flood web forms with spam data.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22welding+INspection%22+resume&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1With welding there are some key terms that could take a long time to be indexed on searc engines and ass the web fills up with garbage pages that are just a random collection of text from pages everywhere the search engines become more and more useless.
An online database can provide search capabilities unmatched by regular search engines including geographical searches by Zip, processes, past project types, time of year to travel, wage at home, wage on the road etc.
It can be done and is in the works in my head and at home.
Gerald