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Summary of What's included in this Step:
8: Mastering The Monster
Last Update: 2-21-03
"Internet recruiting has forever changed the job-search process."
"The digital job search is hopeless. Outside of college recruiting and job fairs career changing is still a one by one exercise: locate, attract interviews and negotiate for the best job offers. Don't give up the basic approaches."
Which is true? Both are. To fully exploit the maximum benefit in your career or job search now as you leave college and into the future, you will need to know what services are available to you on the Internet that can expand your reach and multiply the number of prospective employers and employment situations you can reach.
Unfortunately, as many things on the Web, there are an astounding number of commercial and non-commercial services happily willing to help you- all with high-powered-mostly inaccurate-claims of success. This includes the over 100 "across the board" job and resume listing sites such as Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, Flipdog and- perhaps ultimately the most important of all, America's Job Bank www.ajb.dni.us/ the on-line job listing services of the United States Department of Labor. However, as you find out from The Resume Kit you need to look at the scorecards before you get too excited. The total placement from all of the Internet job search services in the country came to just 7% in 2002. Sites like Monster have millions of resumes and perhaps thousands of jobs. And as you will know from having read the digital section of The Resume Kit be VERY careful about controlling your identity.
In addition to the high profile public services that are extensively advertised and competing aggressively for market share, there are hundreds of industry specific job boards that represent trade groups, professions, and journals; college alumni sites, community sites, headhunter sites, newspaper sites and, of course, 10,000 company job sites that tell you all about the company, its products, and what opportunities are available right now. For a list of many different job search sites go to your favorite search engine and search for the words: job sites - or perhaps job listing services. You will have hundreds to choose from. But be very careful about the hype. If you have a connection with some employers in the field you are searching in, ask them what services they use.
Your success rate will probably not be with the mega sites; it will be by starting with the localities and fields you most want to work in and working with the smaller local industry and association listings.
The material in this section of The Resume Kit includes a plan for using job listing sites as a
major support system to build your job search in a more customized way.
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