Frustrated Job Seekers

Here is an interesting article that comments on the frustration most job seekers experience in online recruiting.  Speaking of the difficult time job seekers have of actually finding their “dream job” online, Jennifer Hamm says;

Still, trolling job boards remains a very time consuming process, contends Richard H. Beatty, author of “The Ultimate Job Search.” There are over 40,000 career websites, including mega job boards, industry-specific sites and listings on company sites.

“Job seekers are faced with the daunting task of somehow screening through this bewildering array to discover those sites that will prove most productive for them,” Beatty says. “Huge amounts of precious job-search time can be completely wasted.”

I’ve written about the fragmented world of internet recruiting from the perspective of the Corporate Recruiter.  Here is proof that it is confounding to the other side of the equation as well – the job seeker.

But there is an answer.  There is a new company who has a “set it and forget it” application for job seekers.  Simply tell the system what you’ve done and what you want to do and it guarantees that your profile will be searched by 1000’s of companies each day for every position they have, including all of the AllianceQ Member companies.  No more searching, no more contacts from “work at home” opportunities, no more wasted time.  You are contacted ONLY for those opportunities you’ve said you are interested in.  Just like in Jerry McQuire, QuietAgent simply says; “help me, help you”! 

Fun stuff to think that you can have an “agent” out there looking for your ideal job every day.  What will you do with all those hours previously spent mired in the masses of useless job search sites?  Network, go back to school, volunteer etc.  You can focus on other things knowing you have that ‘agent’ out there looking for your next job.

Rescuing the job seeker from the fragmented world of job boards is as important as rescuing the corporate recruiter from it.