Stalled out on your job search? Here are a few links that discuss issues and advice you can use to get the ball rolling.
Do you smoke? Do you know how it affects your career?
Why do companies post executive jobs on job boards?
Are you really overqualified or do you just not know how to work the system?
Can you learn to interview better?
Do you know a proper metric for a good Job Search Engine (NOT job board).
Here’s where you can find links to research tools.
Fed up with recruiters who misbehave?
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Seems the job search engine world is exploding with new job search tools. And along with them, companies who provide SEO and other services to HR departments. For example: Optijob offers a solution for Internet recruiting and job marketing to companies. They advertise: “OptiJob applies cutting-edge search engine optimization – (SEO) technology to showcase your jobs individually, distinctly and uniquely, as separate listings on Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Candidates see your job listing as a four-line block of type including your company name on the search results they are shown. From your office to their computer, job marketing made easy. Internet recruiting just got personal.”
As long as companies are making it easier for you to find their jobs, why not use the search engines created to find them? In my previous blog about seven search engines I mention there is quite a bit of duplication on results. But the engines listed here specialize and may render different results. Let me know how they work for you.
Joes Jobs is all about software development openings. And lots of them from around the world.
37 signals has listings for web developers and designers, for the most part.
Creative has a site for about any creative type you can imagine and even allows users to post their portfolio. This is a sophisticated site with a variety of services.
Suresh was skeptical. As my most recent coaching client, he had not yet learned that my advice works. He downloaded “Blog to a Job” from the “Free” page on my web site, but didn’t create a blog saying, “I don’t believe people are going to do an Internet search to find people at my level.” I badgered him into compliance knowing the blog would work to attract employers with real jobs looking for his exact qualifications.
Imagine Suresh’s surprise when after three days, his blog had over 60 hits and he was contacted directly by a CEO who had a job that mapped to Suresh’s resume. The CEO said he has an ongoing search (feed) for key individuals and Suresh’s credentials were spot on for the opening he had. Unfortunately, the job required relocation which Suresh wasn’t interested in, but he did ask for and received referrals from the CEO.
Suresh created a Boolean string for Google and his own resume came up first. And that is how employers and recruiters use search engines to discover both active and passive candidates (prospects). To learn more, go to web site for your own download to learn how to Blog for a Job to let employers find you.
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