Job Searches on the Internet = Big Black Hole
Is this your first time on the job market in years? Has the Internet made it easier or more difficult to find your next position?
Candidates tell us of spending countless hours trolling through cyberspace searching through job boards, posting résumés online, and sending résumés to corporate job portals. And they never hear a word.
Is there a better way?
Companies favor recruiting agencies that can identify qualified candidates. Hiring managers and internal recruiters would like to avoid job boards and spending hours searching through the Internet too.
For those at income levels of $50,000 (or more) it’s not a good idea to send résumés scattershot through the job boards. You may not be aware, but often, corporate contracts preclude a recruiting agency from representing you if you’re already in a company’s database. The hiring company may not have enough internal resources to find you in their database; however, you will still be registered as an applicant.
For the entire article go to TechExecPartners.com
This is great advice from Diane Gubin of Tech Exec Partners. Corra has heard from more than one source that you can waste a lot of time looking for work on the Internet.
Corra realizes that when you are out of work or in an untenable situation where you need to look for another job, you want to explore every opportunity available. But the fact remains, as Diane notes in her article, most companies prefer to hire an employment staffing service that will filter candidates and arrange, if necessary, to conduct background checks on all job candidates.
Of course, some companies already have a pre-employment screening program in place, so it would be up to them to run any background checks on their finalist candidates.
If you are looking for work, many are, and with this economy many more will soon be joining in that exhausting search, it pays to heed Diane’s advices. Sometimes it just pays to be sensible.
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