Yes, I know about Dice.com, Monster.com, TechieGold.com, ComputerPeople.com.
The problem I have with all these sites is that none of the companies that post jobs on them seem to take them seriously.
I’ve sent resumes and e-mails for many jobs on these sites. Most of the time the company or recruter doesn’t even reply; sometimes it’s an automated reply “your resume has been added to our database”, and often the position is filled (even if recently added to the site). I have all the skills they are asking for and more so it’s not a problem with my resume
I don’t know anybody who’s really found a job online this way - all my friends who have tried to use online sites to find a job have ended up getting one the old fashioned way (friend-of-a-friend etc.)
I wonder if the companies just post their open positions on these big sites as if casting a big net, in the hope that the ideal candidate might happen by…but then why wouldn’t they reply? It’s a bit like spam but without malicious intent. Perhaps the companies are assuming that anyone who replies online is not really serious and must be using the “shotgun” approach - pepper the Net with resumes and hope to hit something.
So, does anyone know of a reliable, serious site for IT people to find jobs? I’m in the Los Angeles area if it’s relevant. More broadly, what is the best way to find a job online?
There is a site called Brass Ring (http://www.brassring.com/) that has the usual job listings and such. However, they also sponsor career events as a way for job seekers and potential employers to get together face to face.
I hope this helps you. Good luck in your job search!
Thanks for the info. Has anyone on here actually found and obtained a job 100% online, or does anyone know someone that has?? I’m skeptical about this whole thing.
You have a right to be skeptical. Most (not all) companies use the electronic boards for resume gathering and to satisfy state and/or federal laws. As someone intimately aware of this process at a Fortune 500 company, let me tell you that the odds of your resume actually being seen by someone that will get back to you is small. My company hired 10 folks to scan in resumes. That’s all they did, full time, all day. (ugh)
We did a study to see how much overlap there was between actual hiring and resumes in our database. The answer was around 40%. What that meant was that 4 out of every 10 hires that came through a headhunter or staffing service were already in our database. The problem is that too many folks are lazy and never searched the internal database for potential candidates. It is much easier to call up a recruiter to do the work for you. They do the screening, the hiring company pays a fee. Expensive, yes… but that’s the reality.
Most jobs are found through networking. I’m sure folks have found jobs through the internet, but I don’t know of any. For any job opening that we put on Monster, we’d get an average of 300 resumes in the first 24 hours. No one is going to look through that. The best bet is to find an opening you are interested in and hope that you know someone in the company that can get your resume in front of the hiring manager.
Good luck.
Max
I posted something similar to this recently. I too am beginning to get a little dismayed with the IT job search. The fact of the matter is though that the market is simply saturated with IT and people in al lfields right now.
To answer your question, I got a job a year ago from hotjobs.com. I recently got laid off but it was a real job. Two weeks ago, I got cold called by a company and went through three stages of interviews. The final one lasted 8 hours and I got informed that I didn’t get an offer after all of that! Last Friday, I got cold-called by a headhunter and I met with him. I was told today that the target company wants to set up a face-to-face interview within the next few days. Those were both from monster.com.
Today, I got cold-called by a consulting company that wants to set up an interview too. I am not sure where they got my resume.
In short, job boards can and do work but the market is extremely tight right now and everyone in IT is finding it extremely difficult to land employement.
Darren, my last 3 jobs have come through headhunters who saw my resume on monster. Granted, these were through the headhunters and not through the companies themselves, but if I hadn’t posted my resume in these places, it wouldn’t have gotten seen by the companies which eventually hired me.
So I don’t have any better advice for you, but I can offer you hope.
Darren, my last 3 jobs have come through headhunters who saw my resume on monster. Granted, these were through the headhunters and not through the companies themselves, but if I hadn’t posted my resume in these places, it wouldn’t have gotten seen by the companies which eventually hired me.
So I don’t have any better advice for you, but I can offer you hope.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the encouragements too. I should point out that I do currently have a job, but I’m looking around for something better. I realize I’m lucky to actually have a job in these hard times so any sympathy should be saved for the poor souls that have been laid off - I don’t deserve it!
I got my current job thru flipdog.com. They send me daily email of jobs that matched a list of MY keywords. There were a lot of duplicates sent over time, but I routinely got maybe 10 new ones a day.
The job I found was half a mile from my doorstep, and paid 25% more than the job I had at the time.
I printed the app from the employer’s website and sent it in throu snailmail. I never set foot in the place til a scheduled interview, and they made me an offer within a week.
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The best site by far