Go Google your company. I’ll wait.
How many hits did you get? My company had about 38,000. Now I love my company, but there is no way that there are 38,000 cool or even uncool things to say about it. I Google’d some of our competitors and they had similar results and there definitely aren’t that many things to say about them.
So what is going on here? It is job postings that have been multiplying like rabbits out there in the rat’s nest of job boards. I am not sure how it actually happens, but I found job postings for my company on boards I didn’t even know existed. Good news is we didn’t pay for them. Bad news is that they were old. Really old. We got a call last week for a job order that we had closed two years ago! The poor woman who called was so excited about the opportunity that when I told her the opening had closed, she yelled at me. I informed her that we don’t actually control all the content on the web, Bill Gates does. She felt much better because everyone already has their opinion and hates Microsoft for some reason.
The job boards certainly serve a purpose. The main ones (Monster, Yahoo/HotJobs, CareerBuilder) are so entwined with most company’s recruiting processes that you would be silly not to look there, but man you have to plow through a bunch of trash to get to jobs you are really interested in. Not to mention the ads everywhere.
Perhaps worse is that recruiters are a little sick of plowing through resumes like you are sick of plowing through job postings.
Imagine if you will, job openings coming to you. Imagine recruiters giving you some feedback. Imagine your friends happy about your new job and not envious. It ain’t Utopia, but you can see it from there. Standby. We are getting closer.
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