Moving Towards Efficiency in the Online Job Search Process - CareerAlley

Moving Towards Efficiency in the Online Job Search Process - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. With the unemployment rate still lingering above eight percent and business owners complaining about a lack of qualified workers, its no secret that somethings gone wrong with the evolution of the online job search process. Theres been a lot of change over the past decade as we moved from newspaper Want Ads to job boards, professional networking sites, and social media recruiting tools. While these developments revolutionized the way we find jobs and good employees, theyve also created a whole new set of challenges and inefficiencies. Recruiters are tasked with becoming social media experts while whittling down a much larger stack of resumes than ever before. Job seekers are competing against larger pools of applicants and spending too much time searching as new channels become available and the job board market becomes increasingly flooded and fragmented. New technologies like aggregated job boards, tailored job search alerts, and applicant tracking systems that weed out unfit applicants are cropping up every day to manage these challenges. But even these lead to trouble as candidates outsmart the system by writing resumes meant to be read by search engines instead of humans, loaded with keywords that may or may not accurately represent their qualifications. This leaves recruiters spending more time looking for needles in haystacks, and high-fit candidates wondering why their resume isnt getting noticed. Companies are starting to take a more creative approach by leveraging comprehensive recruiting technologies. Theyre looking for services that can: Harness social media platforms to reach targeted populations Find passive candidates who arent even looking until the right opportunity comes along See past inflated resumes and screen out the truly unqualified applicants Provide access to a database of candidates Consider all angles of a candidates fit with the job and the company including personality and company culture Leave hiring managers and recruiters with a much more manageable list of high-fit candidates Job seekers who want to be on that list should pay close attention to what services recruiters are using, and determine how adapt their job search habits accordingly. Many of these resources even offer free job matching services for candidates. While the rest of the competition is busy stuffing keywords into their resume, those who are more interested in finding the right fit should look for job matching partners who are after the same goal. Danny Simon is the Founder and CEO of JobSync, which recruits for many Fortune 500 companies, matching high-fit candidates to open positions based on experience and personality. This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search. Visit me on Facebook