Is Your Job Search In Trouble

By Randall Scasny

Have you been looking for a long time and don't feel you’re any closer to a job offer than when you began months or years ago? And you don’t recall it ever being this hard to land a new job? Well, nearly all job seekers today experience difficult job searches and don’t always understand why. Of course, there is a number of causes for this phenomenon. The most visible one is the outsourcing of job overseas and the adoption of technology (automation, robots, computers) in the workplace. The widespread use of online job searching also causes job search difficulties. This book overcomes these problems and more. The goal of this book is get you hired quickly, even if you've been out of work for years. It will teach you a simple, divide-and-conquer method that will help you speed up your job search. This book was written for you, the unemployed persons of the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329039230

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Is Your Job Search In Trouble

Is Your Job Search In Trouble?

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 by Randall C. Scasny

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The Universal Job Search Life Cycle

Dedication

As always, this book is dedicated to my father,

Frank C. Scasny.

You want to get to the other shore at any cost and you are swimming frantically, not knowing where the other shore is. The other shore may be this shore, and so you are swimming away from it. If I may suggest it: stop swimming. – J. Krishnamurti

Essential Terms

This book contains terms that are likely to be unfamiliar to some readers yet are essential to understanding the information and concepts discussed. I have listed the definitions of essential terms here.

Online Recruitment: any electronic intermediary between an individual job seeker and an employer. It can include: email; job boards; recruiting agency websites; staffing firm websites; newspaper classified websites; governmental career (workforce development) websites; corporate career sites; social media recruiting sites; professional association websites; message board lists; industry newsletters; and Internet blogs.

Job Board: the informal name applied to a website that contains databases of résumés and job ads. Job seekers search the job ad database for current openings, while employers or recruiters search the résumé database for job candidates to interview.

Social Recruiting Sites: the name applied to websites that use social media for career transitions. Like job boards, they contain candidate profiles and résumés, as well as job ads. Recruiters primarily use social recruiting sites to search for candidates by keywords; however, the connections that candidates develop can also be a sourcing pool for recruiters. In addition, recruiters also use social recruiting sites to learn more about a candidate, basically, as an informal background check. The important difference between a job board and a social recruiting site is that members of social recruiting sites can connect with other members. This networking may generate referrals and job leads.

Recruiter: a sales person or representative, who is usually compensated by employers, and acts as a gate keeper in the hiring process. There are different types of recruiters. Executive recruiters or headhunters are the most well known. They work with high-wage job seekers and obtain large commissions when they place an executive with an employer. Technical recruiters work with technical professionals and perform a role similar to that of an executive recruiter. Some recruiters work for staffing agencies; these people are on salary and generally do not earn large commissions. Instead, they work on behalf of their client, the employer, to find appropriate job candidates. Offshore recruiters are the newest type of recruiter. They work for companies based outside of the U.S. who are seeking U.S. workers to fill their U.S. positions primarily due to the limitations the U.S. government places on guest worker visas, such as H1-bs.

Sourcing: all actions taken by both recruiters and hiring managers to find people for open positions. Sourcing is synonymous with selecting or finding. In the past, recruiters and hiring managers used mainly contacts they had developed through networked human relationships to source candidates. Nowadays, recruiters usually source candidates by using keyword searches of résumé databases from job boards and connections from social recruiting sites.

Résumé Database: a database warehouse of career information of both active and passive job candidates. They contain as few as a couple of thousand résumés to as many as 300 Million or more.

Online Résumé: a résumé written specifically for a résumé database. It emphasizes information and keywords over visual format. These résumés are much longer than the traditional one-page résumé. In theory, they are limitless since the length of a résumé does not really matter for a database; however, most online résumés are two to four pages long.

Résumé Visibility: when a résumé obtains high ranking in résumé database searches. High ranking equals high visibility, which usually translates into frequent callbacks by recruiters who view the résumé in an online recruitment database.

Online Recruitment Tools

It can be confusing for job seekers new to online recruitment to understand what online tools, websites, and social recruiting sites to use since there are different types of online recruitment tools and websites. To clarify matters, let me begin with some definitions of the different types of sites, which will give you a context to understand all online recruitment sites. Online recruitment tools and websites are divided into the following categories:

General-Purpose Job Boards

Market Niche Job Boards

Social Recruiting Sites

Job Ad Aggregator Sites

Online Contract Bidding Networks

Employer-Hosted Career Sites

General-purpose job boards are multi-industry, job listing websites that contain two types of databases: a résumé database and a job ad database. Employers search the résumé database for job candidates while job seekers search the job ad database to find job openings. Monster.com is a typical example of a job board in this category.

Market niche job boards are identical to general-purpose boards with one important difference: they focus on only one type of industry or occupation. Hcareers.com, which covers the hospitality industry, and Dice.com, which covers the information technology industry, are typical examples.

Social recruiting sites are a hybrid of social media and general-purpose job boards. But instead of a résumé database, these sites have a member-profile database that contains not only a résumé but also a lot of personal information about the members. Recruiters are transitioning from relying on job boards to using social recruiting sites because these sites provide more information about job seekers. Finally, social recruiting sites enable relationship-building between members and recruiters, which to a degree can impact a job seeker’s ability to get hired quickly. LinkedIn.com is a typical example.

Job ad aggregator sites look like general-purpose job boards but are really job ad search engines that index job ads from job boards, company career sites, staffing agencies, etc. and place them onto one website for convenience. When a job seeker clicks on a job, she is sent to the source of the ad. Job ad aggregators can speed up the process of finding job openings, but they can also be very competitive. The larger ones get a lot of traffic and can generate lots of job applicants. Indeed.com is a typical example.

Online contract bidding networks are a relatively new concept for obtaining employment. One could call these sites task-based job boards. Their structure is similar to a job board. The big difference is the type of jobs posted. Most of the jobs are either single-task jobs, or jobs that will last for a few days to a few weeks. The employer may be a large company, small business or an individual who needs a specific task done such as, write a business plan, update a page on a website, write a piece of software code, proofread a document, or design a website logo. On these networks, job seekers can get employed in a few hours from the time of application – a definite advantage! However, the pay structure is very different than other types of employment. These networks use bidding to determine compensation; the bidding process is intended to mimic contract