This week's job tip is about broadening your searching to be more than just looking at Monster every daily. It's surprising but a lot of people they rely on Monster (or Careerbuilder) to find their next job for them. Regrettably, in today's job market that's just not enough. In order to find all of the opportunities out there, you're going to need to dig deeper and work a bit harder. Sooner or later, it seems like almost all jobs end up in the world wide web (somewhere). The trouble is where to look to find them.
The big search engines (like Monster and Careerbuilder) are great resources that provide loads of information - almost all of it at no cost. However, many jobs don't show up there. Why? Well, to begin with, employers must pay to put positions on those sites. If they have 50 openings, it may not be affordable to put all 50 on Monster.com. Rather they may pay to post just some of the critical or high-profile positions on a big search engine. The remaining positions they could post at a regional/local or less expensive search engine. This can be even more true for a smaller company without the resources to post and procure all of their openings. All the jobs will be available on the companies own website since that would be free.
Yet another issue is that there's little or no risk (or cost) for an applicant to apply for open positions. They may (or may not) have the required experience or credentials for the work. Many employers experience a literal flood of resumes which are nearly impossible to sort through to find the really qualified applicants. This also hinders employers for posting on big search engines. Again, this can be even more true for smaller employers (where a lot of the jobs are found).
Try this sometime. Pick a big and small employer where you live and find their Career or Employment webpages. Note the quantity of jobs and then try to find all these jobs on Monster or Careerbuilder. When we gave it a try we found that only a percentage were posted. If we were looking for that precise opening, we would have been out of luck.
So remember - Careerbuilder and Monster are great sites with a lot of jobs and information, but be sure you look beyond them and branch out into other areas to locate your next job. Try other search engines, check out your newspaper, and go to the employer's own website to find all the jobs. Best Wishes
The big search engines (like Monster and Careerbuilder) are great resources that provide loads of information - almost all of it at no cost. However, many jobs don't show up there. Why? Well, to begin with, employers must pay to put positions on those sites. If they have 50 openings, it may not be affordable to put all 50 on Monster.com. Rather they may pay to post just some of the critical or high-profile positions on a big search engine. The remaining positions they could post at a regional/local or less expensive search engine. This can be even more true for a smaller company without the resources to post and procure all of their openings. All the jobs will be available on the companies own website since that would be free.
Yet another issue is that there's little or no risk (or cost) for an applicant to apply for open positions. They may (or may not) have the required experience or credentials for the work. Many employers experience a literal flood of resumes which are nearly impossible to sort through to find the really qualified applicants. This also hinders employers for posting on big search engines. Again, this can be even more true for smaller employers (where a lot of the jobs are found).
Try this sometime. Pick a big and small employer where you live and find their Career or Employment webpages. Note the quantity of jobs and then try to find all these jobs on Monster or Careerbuilder. When we gave it a try we found that only a percentage were posted. If we were looking for that precise opening, we would have been out of luck.
So remember - Careerbuilder and Monster are great sites with a lot of jobs and information, but be sure you look beyond them and branch out into other areas to locate your next job. Try other search engines, check out your newspaper, and go to the employer's own website to find all the jobs. Best Wishes
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