There's no time to waste on your job search. While you might become frustrated by time-consuming tactics, the quality of those strategies are much more likely to get you somewhere. According to The Wall Street Journal and several human resource experts, today's job search has to go beyond the job boards.
Traffic on sites like Monster.com, Careerbuilder and Yahoo’s HotJobs is up 37 percent from last year, which is great for those websites, but it makes those boards much more crowded for job seekers and hiring managers scouting quality talent. Mark Stelzner, a human resources consultant, explains, "Companies are asking, 'now that we are overwhelmed with talent, how do we attract the right talent?'"
In response to the flooded job boards, more employers are relying on their own websites to find premier candidates. They're making their own career pages more attractive to prospective employees by including videos and employee profiles, and they're syncing with sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. It's not that big job boards should be ignored altogether, but it's clearer than ever that job hunters need to use all of the tools available to them.
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This kind of news makes me feel bad for some of the more old-school people that are looking for jobs out there. I mean, my dad got laid off several months ago and didn't really even know where to start. The only job-hunting resource he used was the classified ads in the paper. I remember my mom telling me that as soon as he got laid off, he started making paper copies of his resume to send to the places he saw in the paper. Luckily for him, he got rehired to the same firm that laid him off, but some people might not be so lucky. Job boards are definitely where the most traffic will be...I think a lot of people don't know what else is really out there to find a new place of employment.
1In my circle of friends, I'm the newest victim of the economy. I've never been laid off before, and I thought that Monster and HotJobs, etc would be great places to find a new job...BLAH! Not so!
Not only are there a lot of job seekers, there are also a lot of people taking advantage of us. There are more bogus jobs than real ones, and more "work from home" ploys and scams posted than actual careers.
Honestly, I'm finding more luck on CraigsList and (as the article says), individual websites.
Good luck to all of you job seekers!
2I agree with the amount of crud and scams on the big job boards...I think what is becoming more popular are the agrigator (sp?) sites where they pull postings from all sorts of small job boards and company websites and list what is available. And I also think that employers are avoiding the big postings because if a company doesn't have a gigantic HR department someone has to weed through the THOUSANDS of resumes and it's a lot of time and energy. It is easier to make the applicants "come to you"
3Check out hound.com and indeed.com, with those two you have 99% of the job market covered. And yes, beware of the scams and resume services.
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