I attended a meeting of Third Party Recruiters (Headhunters) this weekend in Chicago. The topic of the meeting was, surprisingly enough, recruiting. One item that came up over and over again was that candidates are reducing their value in the job market by posting their resumes on job boards such as Monster, Careerbuilder, Hot Jobs, etc. Unfortunately, when your resume is found on one of the job boards the company recruiter or third party recruiter immediately assumes you are in a fire sale situation and your value immediately falls.
I am not saying that you should not post on a job board but I recommend that you try traditional networking or list yourself with a recruiting company that specializes in placing people in your field of expertise, e.g. Discovery Personnel, Inc. specializes in placing job seekers in the Plastics Industry. Then if you fail to get the response you believe you should be getting, list on the job boards but list on the job boards as a last not first option. Too many job seekers start their job search by listing on the job board because it is easy. Do you really believe companies want people that take the easy way out?
If you do list your resume on a job board and a Third Party Recuiter finds it and sets you up with an interview (this is much more likely than a company finding your resume and requesting that you interview), never tell the company that the recruiter found you on Monster or one of the other job boards. Just tell them that the recruiter found you through their research department. If you tell the company the recruiter found you on the job board two things are going to happen. The first is the company is going to feel cheated because they are paying recruiter fees for someone that was found on a job board (I am somewhat of a loss as to why this is the case because they are looking to hire someone to meet a need in their company). The second thing that will happen is the company is not going to look at you as warmly as they would have and will try to reduce their perceived losses by offering you a lower salary or just deciding not to hire you.
An example of a reason not to tell anyone that your resume was found on a job board follows. I once found the perfect management candidate for a company many years ago on Careerbuilder (it was called Headhunter.com at the time) and the candidate passed all of interviews and testing with flying colors. The individual was essentially hired for the management position but the last step in the hiring process was to have dinner with the president of the company and the Human Resources Director. The candidate and the company president were getting along well over dinner until the company president asked the candidate how I found him. The candidate told him Headhunter.com. The company president immediately took the human resources director aside and told him not to hire the individual and to do their own postings on the job boards to find people. In the end everyone lost and the best candidate did not get hired. Later I filled the position with another candidate who was good but not the best.
This is just food for job hunting thought.
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