Job Boards Don't Work...period
Career Builder, Monster, etc...my opinion is they don't work and I recommend avoiding them at all cost.
Considering the time you spend inputting your demographic information for free so they can resell it, your better suited to try and determine the potential employer yourself, circumventing the whole job board route and contacting someone directly at the business either via mail or phone.
What was initially a good idea back in the day has become nothing more than a way to harvest personal information about people from the web for free for resale.
If I have to skip one more forced pop up ad for Phoenix University I will go totally ape shit.
Take for example the two choice opportunities I received today. ( see above picture predicting my dismal future)
Pizza Delivery OR the US Air Force !!!
WTF?
Moreover what the frig to they mean by for pizza delivery driver I am and I quote a...
"Good Match"
WITH 3 stars no less....ugh
Keep in mind I have program management level experience in IT with over 17 years of employment in IT. Which they know, or their equivalent of Hal 9000 knows.
"I am sorry Dave, your a pizza delivery driver"
My experience with hours of manually inputting my employment information OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER as to job experience, skills, certifications, etc communicates my lifetime of achievements, accolades and awards in to their massive databases and by the exacting parse and search criteria the job boards utilize after decades of fine tuning their ability to match potential employees with employers to ...
...me being either a pizza delivery person or enlisting in the military.
Now the job boards could and would of course say "Well it's how you set up your search criteria...blah blah blah"
No it isn't, but whatever. What other choice do I have other than personal networking?
Obviously from having the skill set of a pizza delivery driver I can only network personally with the guy at 7-Eleven and my Dungeons and Dragons group of the fellow unemployed.
The Detroit News' Sunday edition has about 6 IT positions, so by that logically extrapolation of the jobless rate here in Michigan I can assume about 243,522 people applied to each one.
Pizza delivery doesn't look all that bad under these circumstances.
Welcome To Detroit
The best part is Michigan Unemployment can't keep up with the claims and to my knowledge have not offered employment to any of us registered at Michigan Works.
ReplyDeleteI agree whole heartily Anon. I too had to of course register with Michigan Works..my resume has been viewed by one employer in 1 year.
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