Job Search Website Employer Confessions
ummary: You'll be shocked Job Search Engine Sites' Inner
when you learn what I found Workings Exposed!
out when I posted a job as
an employer on a job search Why would I cruelly toy with
website. Find out the tactics to these eager online job searchers'
get the attention of an employer emotions? Why do people like me
like me amid a sea of job search make an already impersonal online
website applications. job application process even more
inhuman? Actually, when you look
Hi, I'm the one sabotaging your at job search websites from the
online job search. On several job employer's point of view, a few
search websites, I've posted a things become clear:
job only to waste hundreds of
applicants' time in the process. * Job search websites trigger an
Each one of those hundreds was overwhelming tidal wave of
hoping to get the job, each applications.
applying in good faith, assuming
that they had a chance--that at In one day my email inbox got
least one of the hundreds of them well over 100 applications. In
who applied would get the job. fact, I had to pull the plug on
the job posting when it became
In fact, I ended up not selecting clear I would be drowning in
any of the applicants for the applications.
job, even though a number of them
seem quite well qualified based * Most applications submitted on
on their resumes and carefully a job search site read like
crafted letters. I went with they've been plagiarized from a
someone recommended to me by a job-hunting manual.
colleague.
One after another cover
letter--from the applicants who the position.
bothered to include a cover
letter--looked like they could Please, before you hit "send,"
have been submitted in response remember that the poor slob
to any job opening in the US, you're making work for just might
from burger flipper to rocket have better things to do. At
scientist. least remember that eventually
the owners of the website may
Every applicant had goals of catch up with you and throw you
advancement and a desire to find off the site for behavior that
an outlet for their talents. is, essentially, spamming.
Very, very few bothered to make
the link between these goals and Online Job Searches Drown in a
desires and a job at my website Sea of Applications.
copywriting firm.
As you can see, you really are
* Most applicants on job search competing against hundreds of
websites are not even remotely other applicants for every open
qualified. position. That is, if you're
lucky, you'll be competing
I not only got fiction writers against hundreds of other
and poets applying for my applicants.
copywriting position; a few
computer programmers and graphic If you're not lucky, your
designers applied as well. application can easily get lost
in a sea of faceless applications
After all, why not? All they had before anyone even looks at it
to do was hit "send." Let the long enough for you to be in
poor slob on the other end figure competition for anything.
out if their qualifications match
The problem isn't so much that job search sites make it
you have such great competition, difficult or impossible to track
but that you have such awful the status of an application
competition. beyond confirming that it was
entered into the system.
If someone on the other end even
does look at your application, In short, when it comes to job
how likely is it that they will search websites, hard work and
be looking at it with a fresh persistence pay off. You have to
eye, excited at the possibility cast a lot of lines very well
of a great hire? before you even get a bite. Often
it isn't so much the best worker
Job Search Websites Make It Hard who gets the job, but the person
to Distinguish Yourself. most skilled at navigating the
application process.
You're just a series of filled-in
form fields and rows of text. On The good news is that if you
most sites, you can't even adjust learn to approach the job search
the font of your resume. website process from the point of
Your job website application may view of making life easier for a
disappear into the ether potential employer, you'll have
unread--and you'll never find an enormous advantage over other
out. applicants.
With a hundred applications per When you start thinking about the
day, it's very easy for an email person on the other side of the
inbox to go over quota and bounce "submit" button, you'll see
a few, or for a few sheets of potential flaws in your
printouts to fly into the application that never would have
recycling bin prematurely. Most appeared to you otherwise: how
you can make your cover letter Ready to get a fresh start with
more concise and to-the-point, or your applications by looking at
how you could remove irrelevant them from an employer's
time-wasting factoids from your perspective? Start re-planning
resume. your online job search now,
before you forget.
About the Author:
Joel Walsh has written a cheat sheet with concrete tips for getting your online job site application noticed by employers. Read the cheat sheet for job search websites: http://www.job-search-adviser.net/articles/00002h-Job-Search-Website-Application-Cheat-Sheet.htm [When posting on the web, please hyperlink "Job Search Websites" as the visible text
Source: www.isnare.com
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