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Job Search Advice: Are You Applying Online, But Getting No Interviews?
Here's a common scenario (and complaint) for job seekers: "I spend all day long applying to jobs online through Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, or niche job boards—and I never get a response. Have I lost the understanding of how this job search works?"
If this is happening to you, you've got to understand that the job search has totally changed from what it was 15 years ago, or even 5 years ago. Today's job search is different. It's flooded with job seekers in this terrible economy, and jobs are posted online, so that everyone and their dogs can apply, with just a click of the mouse. So some of these jobs you're seeing on Monster or Career Builder or some of the bigger niche sites are getting a thousand or more applicants—and I don't care how good you are, it's hard to shine in a room of 1000 people.
What should you do? Step away from sites like those, other than looking at the job to find out who it's with. Once you find out which company is hiring, find out who the hiring manager for that job is.
This is where social networks come into play. You can use LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to identify the hiring manager for that job and then go directly to him because—guess what? It takes a lot of effort to do that. So not all of those 1000 folks who sent in that application will contact the hiring manager. In fact, my guess would be that out of the 1000 people who would apply online, less than 10 will seek out the hiring manager. Out of those 10, at least 5 will fail with a typo, a misspelled word, bad email syntax, or they just do an overall crummy job with their note, so really, it's 5 out of 1000—and you could be one of those 5.
Why is it so important to get to the hiring manager? He's the one who's carrying the budget, and who has the problem he's got to solve, so he's super-interested in someone like you. You have to help him find you.
So, stop applying online. It just won't work in our current climate. There are too many applicants, and not enough jobs. Find the job, find the hiring manager, and go directly to him for the job.
About the Author
Peggy McKee has over 15 years of experience in sales, sales management, sales recruiting, and career coaching. Her website, Career Confidential (http://www.career-confidential.com) is packed with job-landing tips and advice as well as the practical, powerful, innovative tools every job seeker needs to be successful.
Find out what interview coaching can do for you—job-search strategies, social media help, role-playing interview questions, resumes that get the interview, 30/60/90-day plans that get the job, and much more at => http://www.phcconsulting.com/interview-coaching/.
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Do you have to pay to use Monster job search?
Be specific, not just a yes or no. Do you have to pay to post your resume, etc...?
you pay if you are looking for workers, you dont pay if youre looking for employers, and tiff you better pick me as your best answer lol
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Online Job Search Engine - The Top 10 Online Job Search Engines
What more can you ask for when you have already been provided a list of job opportunities from which you can pick and choose adjusting to your necessities. An online job search engine helps you get your choice of work with respect to your criteria in a very short time, and is considered quick and effective.
There are some points that you have to take a note of which mainly consists of ranking of job sites in Google after you have entered the right keyword to induce your search in an online job search engine.
You should be careful about spam sites before feeding in your personal info, you sure don't want to increase harassments later. A job search engine otherwise is an effective method.
The top ten engines
Online jobs are very much used worldwide but also accounts to certain criteria for ranking and order of preference. What you have to put up is your resume in those portals that an employment search engine would provide and generate a good amount of response from featured companies.
Jobs are provided on the basis of part and full axioms of time and also incur the subsequent pay. You must type such keywords that suit your requirement. Here are the top ten internet job search engines based on the number of users and array of options.
1- Monster Jobs- They are one site which has placed plenty of ads in Google and very much trusted and used by net workers. Their working agenda and job satisfaction has been commendable enough to have Google rank it number one.
2- Indeed.com- This is a huge job search engine which helps you explore a world of jobs through which you can get in touch with a lot of companies, in a much easier way.
3- USA.Gov- This is a government job which can be located in the jobs portal of USA.Gov. It happens to be one of the most used search engines but has certain specific criteria for recruitment, so go through the information at the portal carefully.
4- Career Builder- This is where you can get alerts on new work, remain updated and find your job.
5- Dice- If you are looking for work in the field of technology then this search engine is for you.
6- Link Up- You can get access to various websites of different companies so it would be easier for you to post your resume in your liked site.
7- Yahoo Hot Jobs- This one is pretty famous and as the name suggests, the organization is huge and trustworthy.
8- Simply Hired- It is another online job search engine which provides an explicit detailing of company job profiles etc.
9- Linked In- Two purposes mainly served by this search engine, that is to give a good networking scope to users and also serve for job listings.
10- Craigslist- This is where you can fit in your category, be it writing, entry jobs or government, your search is narrowed down.
About the Author
To learn about more job and career tips and to gain access to an online job search engine with thousands of job listings, please visit http://www.hound.com/gjbrowsejobs.php. Silas Reed, Writer for Hound, writes articles that inform and teach about different job profiles and career advice.
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