Re: What the job boards don't want you to know

In article <1185458460.262313.166020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Beladi Nasralla <nasra11a@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Jul 26, 10:21 pm, alexy <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:In 2000, during the dot-com heyday, Forrester Research1 reported
:that only 4% of job hunters polled found jobs through the Internet,
:including the aforementioned job boards.

I found all of my jobs via the jobs websites, and got them by
addressing the selection criteria and winning. Now you can imagine how
much of efforts and time it took from me to find a next job.

I've had the opposite experience, the one reflected in the study. The
one time I tried to find a job using monster and dice, was an abysmal failure
and I eventually found one via personal contact with someone I knew. Six
months after I'd removed my resume from the job boards, I was still getting
occasional calls from "headhunters" trying to fill in their databases. I never
got a single interview from the monster or dice boards, just a few calls from
the aforementioned database headhunters - which of course never turned into a
job interview either.


- Sharon
"Gravity... is a harsh mistress!"
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