There it sits, taunting you. A disheveled pile of classifieds gathered from all the local newspapers. Somewhere in that haystack is your job or career, somewhere in that haystack is your livelihood.
To make things more complicated you get to decipher the lost language of the classifieds agent. “p.t. posn, min. qual., char. refs. nec., comm. immed.” Good luck with that. Furthermore, what is the job description? What are the benefits? Where is the information? Newspaper classifieds can be a frustration to job seekers. But there is another way, and for the last five years it has been growing in popularity, Internet recruiting.
There are two methods available to the online job seeker. Many people are familiar with the Internet recruiting portals, such as Monster.com, as their advertising has creeped into the popular media. There are many such portals and more are being created. Online recruitment is a win-win solution for both employers and future employees. Employers benefit by saving money on recruiting costs, where an online ad can cost half or a third of a print ad. Instead of a few lines to try and describe their needs, HR departments can go into details, they can provide graphics, video, or links to their own internal data. Job seekers benefit by receiving this information, they otherwise might not have. This also helps the seeker refine their search for the job of their desires. Once they find a job they are interested in, they can instantly send their resume through the site.
The other method is to use a tool that we already use everyday, the search engine. Most companies already have their own websites, so it is a simple matter for human resources to create their own page with listings and a submission form. What is not so simple is to then get noticed. Companies will use search engine optimization to help increase this notice from Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Now the seeker, being a forward thinking person and knowing what they want, can use search engines to target their career choices.
The benefits of Internet recruiting are plain to see for both the seeker and the companies; cost, speed and accuracy. More and more people are taking advantage of these services to start or promote their careers, why aren’t you?
Tags: Recruiting