| Want to know how to instantly get more out of the | | | | This is another resume mining tactic. In this case, the |
| hours you devote to your job search? Spend less | | | | posting you see combines a few positions that |
| time clicking and more time shaking hands. | | | | actually are available into one ad. The entity on the |
| If the bulk of your efforts are focused in the | | | | other end wants to get the most bang for their |
| direction of online job boards, you're misallocating | | | | buck; they run a single ad to pull in the greatest |
| resources. You'll have much better luck if you | | | | number of resumes.o Some of the postings are |
| dedicate yourself to maintaining regular connection | | | | duplicates, though this may not be obvious to the |
| with your network - and building your circle of | | | | reader. |
| contacts by meeting new people. | | | | For example, a single job could be posted on the |
| There are a number of reasons to avoid burning a lot | | | | hiring company's site, on a job board, and on the |
| of time online, such as:o The vast majority of jobs | | | | sites of contingent recruiting firms that might be |
| are never posted. | | | | working on it non-exclusively. It's probably a blind ad |
| Statistics vary, but somewhere in the neighborhood | | | | everywhere but the company site. Because it's |
| of 70%-80% of job openings never end up on the | | | | worded differently in each case, and the employer |
| boards or in the want ads. If postings only represent | | | | isn't identified, you might think there are five |
| a quarter of the available inventory, why spend an | | | | openings when there's only one.)o Some of the |
| inordinate amount of time looking there?o Some of | | | | postings you'll see are outdated; the job was filled. |
| the postings are outright fabrications. | | | | Worse yet, the job might have been filled months |
| These fictitious listings are designed to get you to | | | | ago. A company doesn't want to have an empty |
| give up personal information - think identity theft - or | | | | "opportunities available" page, so they keep old |
| to solicit you for something if you respond.o There is | | | | information up. Or they've simply forgotten to update |
| no job. | | | | the page. |
| Similar to the bullet above, these are also postings | | | | You can burn a lot of time online. It may feel like |
| that aren't what they seem. They're not designed to | | | | you're accomplishing something, but in reality you're |
| swipe your bank account number or sell you | | | | probably not. Especially as the market becomes more |
| something - their purpose is to get your resume. | | | | competitive, it's people who are going to make the |
| These ads are designed to entice people to submit | | | | difference in your search. Spend less time clicking and |
| resumes in order to build databases.o The ad is a | | | | concentrate on interacting. |
| composite. | | | | |