Call me cynical but, I saw this tweet …
Join this great jobs site… They have thousands of pre-screened 100K jobs – check em out
… and just had to shake my head. Job boards are to job seekers what the lottery is to the millions who play every week. The odds are just not in your favor. Sure there’s a lottery winner every week – with emphasis on the “a.”
It’s no secret that I am NOT a fan of job boards. Particularly for finance executives or other C-Suite executives. Oh, they have their place and certainly can, and perhaps even should, be a search strategy. Again with emphasis on the “a.” However, job boards should never be the sum total of a search strategy.
One of my issues is that most people quickly fall into the deception that job boards make it so easy to get a job that they don’t do the hard work required to actually find a job. If anything, scanning posted positions a a sole search strategy turns into a complete waste of time and exercise in futility. The rejection is fierce and the ego is crushed.
And Linked In groups that are targeted solely to job seekers are really not that much different. This is a great list, but my recommendation would be to NOT use 25 of your allotted 50 group memberships on “job search” groups. All you’ll really be doing is hanging out with other unemployed people and folks like me. Select 5 or so job search groups and then join groups that allow you to show off your expertise and will win the attention of recruiters who are looking for top talent.
The jobs CFOs and senior finance executives want are rarely going to be found on a public job board.
And I won’t even discuss job fairs, other than to see this is a pretty funny article!
Amen!
Cindy, thanks for helping to spread the word! The overwhelming majority of executive search firms and corporate recruiters tell us in surveys year after year that they don’t post $200k positions on public websites or job boards.
Those sites have value for research, learning hiring trends, and about the language and cultures of individual companies but not to scour and spend countless hours of the day.