General and IT Job Sites
You have probably noticed
if you have been looking for an IT job that you have a
few options in the area of job boards and technical job sites, but do
you really? You have most likely figured out that many IT and
general job sites leave a little to be desired. Most job sites seem to have been created for
reasons other than helping you find a job, like pushing education
literature down your throat.
Think of an IT Job like trying to find something to eat and
job sites are restaurants. Sure, you can pick out your current
favorite technology job search site such as Monster, CareerBuilder,
HotJobs, and others. What if instead of always going to your favorite place you go to a gourmet job
site food court that has all of the best choices and many options,
meaning all of the top technology job sites, general job sites,
IT niche sites, and
technical employers in one place. You might
say it is a menu that includes items from all of the leading IT restaurants.
That is what
this technical job site offers. We do offer information
technology
employers the ability to post, market, and feature their IT jobs and
company career site directly on a niche IT job site,
but we also offer the Internet's premier job search engine. It indexes nearly every
technical job from all major job sites, niche IT sites, IT orgs, and
technology employer's job pages.
This technical job site offers real value and is exactly how you
should manage an efficient IT job search. IT job
searching is not necessarily enjoyable, so if you are going to
invest your job search time wisely, utilize a technical job
portal that presents relevant industry information and allows you to sort through jobs from multiple sources.
Posting IT Jobs
Overpaying for
individual IT job postings on general job boards is
something you do if you are not well versed in all of your job posting
options. The massive exposure your company's technical jobs and company
career site can receive inexpensively with targeted IT niche
sites and proper search engine optimization and marketing techniques is immense.
A
strong corporate or agency technical recruiter knows that expensive
job postings on general job sites, that quickly get buried within other
jobs, is not how you successfully fill technical jobs. A key to
success with job postings, and a good return on your recruiting
investment, is to make sure your information technology job postings will be seen on
niche recruitment sites, which often attract passive IT job seekers, and
make sure your jobs are distributed to multiple large and small job
sites, blogs, and social / business networking sites throughout the Internet.
Job postings only attract
some of the potential IT job seekers. If you have money to
invest on recruiting, find some alternative marketing avenues, such as
building a long-term brand on niche technology career and job sites,
and consider utilizing pay-per-click advertising such as with
Google AdWords
and Simply Hired. An important method
that marketing departments have been using for years is to advertise a
company logo and link on relevant sites. The only proven and
effective way to build a long-term brand is to have people consistently
see your logo and tagline.
Avoid the quick fix method to attract the top information technology job
seekers. Look outside of the large general job sites if you want
to develop a high quality technical recruiting campaign that attracts
the top technical and engineering candidates year after year.
IT Resume Posting
Posting your
technical resume
seems easy and harmless enough, but is posting your IT resume worth the
effort? Maybe, but you need to consider a few things. When managing a
technical job search, do not relying on others to sort through an
IT resume database to find you. It can happen, but do not rely
on it. Be proactive. As much as you can, research, approach,
and apply to information technology employers and jobs directly.
The major problem with
technical resume databases is that relatively few employers
pay the high cost to search technology resume databases.
Some large companies do, but keep in mind, there are hundreds of thousands of
IT employers
in the United States. It is the case
that the majority of IT employers in America are considered
small companies. They are rarely spending thousands of dollars on a
technical resume database in order to fill a few information technology jobs.
If you are going to post
your technical resume, do so with more than just one or two job sites
as this will rarely produce a new job. Everyone knows about
Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder, but there other places to post your
technology resume as well, and we are not referring to the thousands of obscure
IT and general job sites you should avoid.
The top 10 job sites for posting your IT resume, which may actually
have technical employers utilizing them, comprise nearly 100% of all resume database paying
technology employers. As a rule of
thumb, if you have not heard of a particular general or technical
job site, do not waste your time posting your resume to it. Stick to
large job boards such as
Monster,
HotJobs,
and
CareerBuilder,
etc. if you
are going to integrate resume posting into your job search efforts.
Top 10 IT Job Search Advice
1. Utilize an IT job search site that indexes technical job
postings from employer's sites, major job sites, niche sites, orgs, and
specialty sites. Do not waste your time searching individual job sites.
2. Never pay to belong to a technology, specialty, or general job site no matter how tempting they make it sound.
3. Do not sign up or register for a job board in order to apply for
an IT job. Apply directly to information technology employers only.
4. Use a targeted niche technical job site for job searching as
they provide more relevant job ads, employers, and key resources.
5. Do not sign up for a job site, technical job sites included, in order to see
IT job search results. Never give anyone your personal address.
6. Get off of job boards some of the time and utilize other
methods for locating IT job openings. Like a good salesperson
would do, diversify your new job prospecting approach and methods. One
of them will come through.
7. Job search and apply for IT jobs for more than a couple
of hours per day. There is only a lack of jobs if the effort to find one
is mediocre.
8. Locate and research IT employers outside of job boards. There
are millions of technical employers and jobs. Research relevant
companies to market your services to. Be creative and think outside of
the job board.
9. Only invest time searching for IT jobs through technical recruiters
if your skills, experience, and work history are exceptional.
10. Do not rely on posting your resume to general job sites or
technical job sites. IT employers do use them, and you should use
certain ones too, but it is a relatively small number who pay for these services.
**Do not underestimate
how critical your resume presentation is when you apply to a company and
when you take it to interviews.
