One job seeker's view of job boards
I came across this job seeker job board "rant" which may interest you.
Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs…the entire IT recruiting industry is becoming a pet peeve of mine. Ok, maybe that is a little harsh, not the entire industry, but a significant portion has begun to join the ranks of irksome things with me. Like any other self respecting technical engineering types out there I have kept an updated resume on several job boards and watched the trends in my career field. There have always been quirks to using an online job board. The usual data mining and massive inhale of everyone’s resume by some corporate entity (hey look! I posted my resume last night and I have 1,277 hits already..I must be popular and in demand!….not!) still occurs. I still receive a few automated job agents and browse the boards just to track and see the trends of skills desired as well as regions of activity, recently though I have been experiencing greater annoyance by recruiters. Here’s why…
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Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs…the entire IT recruiting industry is becoming a pet peeve of mine. Ok, maybe that is a little harsh, not the entire industry, but a significant portion has begun to join the ranks of irksome things with me. Like any other self respecting technical engineering types out there I have kept an updated resume on several job boards and watched the trends in my career field. There have always been quirks to using an online job board. The usual data mining and massive inhale of everyone’s resume by some corporate entity (hey look! I posted my resume last night and I have 1,277 hits already..I must be popular and in demand!….not!) still occurs. I still receive a few automated job agents and browse the boards just to track and see the trends of skills desired as well as regions of activity, recently though I have been experiencing greater annoyance by recruiters. Here’s why…
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I did some very similar tests earlier this year and I was flabbergasted by what I saw.
It's not surprising that average net profit in recruitment agencies is about 1%
I was shocked to find most job boards still asking for age even though it is now illegal in the UK.
I tried registering anonymous CVs and they won't accept them without address, zip and the whole lot.
I recently spoke to a police man who told me that gangs of phishers are now calling candidates for the few pieces of information they do not already have form the CV and applying for credit cards instantly online in the candidates names.
There are many problems ahead for job boards not least being the fact that recruiters long since gave up on finding candidates through advertising and are now not even bothering to try and find them via search.
I own a recruitment business and I am finding it increasingly difficult to justify the cost of job boards when my clients won't pay any extra and who can blame them?
One urgent opening advertised on five boards for a month brought in 8 applicants altogether. All 8 were living in the Asian sub continent and not was even properly qualified in any case
I recently saw research carried out by a very large recruiter and it stated that they read (not scan) just over a thousand Cvs per placement. These recruiters call practically all of them looking for not only referrals to candidates, but opportunities at the persons current and last employers, names of HR people and the whole thing.
They may as well have a general phone book in some cases.
My background is in information retrieval and I understand the size of the challenge, but a trained monkey could do better than many of the job boards in terms of IR and and in terms of usability it is obvious that many of them had little consultation with recruiters.
The big agency I mentioned has more cvs in its system than most large job boards, yet they prefer to pay for job boards than try to manage their cv database. They don't search their own database bit go straight to a job board.
I can't figure out where it is all going.
On the other side f the coin, I have been tracking highly qualified engineer for two weeks while he seeks a job.Last time I spoke with him he had made a total of 52 applications for well targeted opportunities and been contacted by three, two of whom promised to submit his CV and one of whom told him the client's name.
From the rest he has heard nothing
I will get the list from him next week and have someone chase them up, I can predict the results of that now.
What's the solution guys?