CAREER EDUCATION. Confessions of an employer's job search website

Summary: you'll be shocked when you learn what I discovered when I posted a job as an employer on a job search site. Discover the tactics to get the attention of an employer like me in the middle of a sea of questions of job search Web site.
Hi, I am the one sabotaging your job search online. I posted on job search sites, a job only to hundreds of candidates in the process of waste. Each of those hundreds hoped to get the job, every application in good faith, assuming that have had the opportunity-at least one of the hundreds of them who have applied to get the job.
In fact, I ended up not selecting any of the applicants for the job, although a number of them seem fairly well qualified based on their curriculum vitae and letters of artisan. I went with someone recommended to me by a colleague.
Inner functioning Search Engine sites exposed!
Why would I ruthlessly toy with the emotions of these researchers eager to work online? Because people like me do an application process online job already impersonal even more inhuman? In fact, when you look at job search websites from the perspective of the employer, a few things become clear:
* Job search websites trigger an overwhelming tidal wave of applications.
In one day my Inbox got well over 100 applications. In fact, I had to pull the plug on job posting when it became clear that it would be drowning in applications.
* Most questions submitted on a job search site read like they've been brainwashed by a manual job search.
One after another cover letter--from applicants who bother to include a cover letter seemed to have been submitted in response to any job opening in the United States, Burger flipper to rocket scientist.
Every applicant had goals of progress and a desire to find an outlet for their talents. Very, very few bother to make the connection between these objectives and desires and a job to my company website copywriting.
* Most of the applicants on job search websites are not even remotely qualify.
I got not only storytellers and poets by applying for my copywriting position; some programmers and graphic designers applied as well.
After all, why not? All I had to do was hit the "send". Let the poor slob on the other end to understand if their qualifications match the position.
Please, before you hit "send", remember that poor slob you're doing work for just might have better things to do. At least mention that at the end of the Web site owners can take with you and throw you off the site for the behavior that is essentially spamming.
Research of on-line job drown in a sea of applications.
As you can see, I'm really compete against hundreds of other applicants for every open position. That is, if you're lucky, you will be competing against hundreds of other candidates.
If you're lucky, your application can easily get lost in a sea of faceless applications before anyone even looks long enough to be in competition for anything.
The problem is not so much that you have such a great competition, but you have such terrible competition.
If someone from the other side also look at the application, as it is likely that they will be looking at it with a fresh eye, excited at the possibility of a great rental?
Job search websites make it difficult to distinguish themselves.
You're just a series of form fields and lines of text. On most sites, you can also adjust the font of your resume.
The application of the Web site work can disappear into the ether to read-and you will never find.
With a hundred applications a day, it is very easy for an Inbox to exceed the quota and bounce a few or a few sheets of stamps of flying in the magazine recycling prematurely. Most of the job search sites make it difficult or impossible to track the status of an application as well as confirmation that has been included in the system.
In short, when it comes to job search websites, persistence and hard work pay off. You need lots of lines very well prior to cast it also gets a bite. Is often not so much the better worker who gets the job, but the person most able to navigate the application process.
The good news is that if you learn to deal with the process of job search websites from the point of view to make life easier for a potential employer, you will have a huge advantage over other candidates.
When you start to think about the person on the other side of the "send" button, you'll see potential defects in the application that never would have appeared to you otherwise: how you can make your cover letter more concise and to-the-point, or how you could remove irrelevant delaying factoids from your resume.
Ready to get a fresh start with looking at applications from the viewpoint of an employer? Start reprogramming your online job search now, before you forget.

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