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My_Job_Search · Newbie Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

Yes, it does! And here's why it works: You're 8.5 x 11 resume can do amazing things if you give it a chance. It can work for you 24 hours a day 7 days a week getting in front of employers, making introductions, setting up interviews, and more.

Certainly you can hunt for and apply to jobs one at a time, but you will only be getting your resume in front of one employer at a time. If you are smart, you will use the Internet for what it does best, creating a one-to-many relationship. You are the one, and employers and their recruiters are the many. Don't use the Internet like it was an old-fashioned newspaper.

Here's how YOU benefit from this job hunting tactic:

You will break into the hidden job market. Only 30% of jobs are advertised. The quickest and easiest way to be considered for the other 70% is to put your resume where employers and their recruiters will be looking for you.
You will be pre-qualified for open jobs that are not advertised and then contacted by employers, recruiters or hring managers themselves.
You get long-term results. You will get good activity for about 3 months, and then the calls and emails taper off. However, many job seekers have reported getting contacted up to a year after posting their resumes.

This job hunting tactic, though, works best for mid-level and above individual contributors and managers.

Find free, updated list of the best career sites to post your resume to here:

How many sites should you post to? The ones in the short list and any speciality sites that pertain to you. But each additional site you post to will increase your exposure to empoyers by 1% to 4% to about 4,000,000 employers and their recruiters searching the resume databanks each month.

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ank06 · Expert Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 247 Career Advice: +1/-0

Yes...it can be effective to place your cv on some job sites. But the truth is the maximum efficiency is obtained if you place your cv directly to the company you want to work in. Be it by handing it personally or sending it via email or post. Because it is more probable for the company to get this cv than when the company is recruiting from various sites.

http://www.cvtips.com/job_sites.html

stevekerp · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: Does it work?

Maybe. You will get your share of fake job offers.

You won't be able to increase the impact with a powerful cover letter.

You won't be able to 'tweak' your resume to fit the job; you may not even have a clear idea of the job requirements.

You will position yourself as 'just another job-seeker.' Unless you have incredible credentials, in which case you may be positioning yourself as vastly over-qualified.

I personally think it's an obsolete tactic.

Steve
www.rogershermansociety.com/wowhired.htm

julian · Expert Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 255 Career Advice: +2/-0

shank

Replies of both My_Job_Search and Steve above are right in two different cases.

Case A: If you are looking for a generic (ie commodity job just to get you some work and you have expertise, then the job sites can work in your favour (think of them as horizontal moves).

Case B: But if you are looking to move up your career or take a bigger challenge or a new role (vertical moves), then job sites can't position well.

As part of guidance to professionals seeking support from CageBreak.com, the above cases have been tested out and results were as mentioned above.

My_Job_Search · Newbie Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

Posting your resume to career sites is not the most effective way to get work, but it is far more effective than answering jobs ads.

When it comes to creating an effective job search, I'd rather post my resume than answer job ads. Job ads account for 5% of the way job actually get filled.

Answering advertised jobs create resume churn. Monster.com loves this because it is how they make their money. While answering job ads seems like low hanging fruit, it is not.

I submit that it actually hurts your career. You only have so much time in the day, to undertake tasks that are only 5% effective is really a waste of time.

For instance, jobs advertised on Monster fetch an average of 600 resumes. If you want to bang your head against the wall competing against 600 other candidates, be my guest. But most hiring managers rather use other means to find candidates, and one of those is to search through the resume data bases.

Because 70% of all jobs are never advertised, the easiest way to break into this 'hidden job market' is to post your resume.

Employers and recruiters refine their searches and find candidates that they then contact.

Resume Posting advice that works, researched, updated listings of the best career sites to post your resume to.

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