General and Engineering Job Sites
You have probably noticed
if you have been looking for an engineering job that you have a
few options in the area of job boards and engineering job sites, but do
you really? You have most likely figured out that many engineering and
general job sites leave a little to be desired. Most job sites seem to have been created for
reasons other than helping you find a job, like pushing education
literature down your throat.
Think of an
engineering job search like trying to find something to eat and
job sites are restaurants. Sure, you can pick out your current
favorite job search site such as Monster, CareerBuilder,
HotJobs, and others. What if instead of always going to your favorite place you go to a gourmet job
site food court that has all of the best choices and many options,
meaning all of the top engineering job sites, general job sites,
engineering niche sites, and
engineering employers in one place. You might
say it is a menu that includes items from all of the leading restaurants.
That is what
this engineering job site offers. We do offer engineering
employers the ability to post, market, and feature their engineering jobs and
company career site directly on a niche technical job site,
but we also offer the Internet's premier job search engine. It indexes nearly every
engineering and technology job from all major job sites, niche engineering sites,
technical orgs, and engineering employer's job pages.
This engineering job site offers real value and is exactly how you
should manage an efficient engineering job search. Job
searching is not necessarily enjoyable, so if you are going to
invest your job search time wisely, utilize a job
site that presents relevant industry information and allows you to sort through
engineering jobs from multiple sources.
Posting Engineering Jobs
Overpaying for
individual engineering job postings on general job boards is
something you do if you are not well versed in all of your job posting
options. The massive exposure your company's engineering jobs and company
career site can receive inexpensively with targeted engineering niche
sites and proper search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM) techniques is immense.
A
strong corporate or agency technical recruiter knows that expensive
job postings on general job sites, that quickly get buried within other
jobs, is not how you successfully fill jobs. A key to
success with job postings, and a good return on your recruiting
investment, is to make sure your job postings will be seen on
niche recruitment sites, which often attract passive job seekers, and
make sure your jobs are distributed to multiple large and small job
sites, blogs, and social / business networking sites.
Job postings only attract
some of the potential engineering job seekers. If you have money to
invest on recruiting, find some alternative marketing avenues, such as
building a long-term brand on niche engineering job and career sites, and consider utilizing pay-per-click advertising such as with
Google AdWords
and Simply Hired. An important method
that marketing departments have been using for years is to advertise a
company logo and link on relevant sites. The only proven and
effective way to build a long-term brand is to have people consistently
see your logo and tagline.
Avoid the quick fix method to attract the top engineering job
seekers. Look outside of the large general job sites if you want
to develop a high quality engineering recruiting campaign that attracts
the top engineering and technical candidates year after year.
Engineering Resume Posting
Posting your engineering resume
seems easy and harmless enough, but is posting your resume worth the effort? Maybe, but you need to consider a few things.
When managing an engineering job search, do not rely on others to sort through a resume database to find you. It can happen, but do not rely
on it. Be proactive. As much as you can, research, approach,
and apply to employers and engineering jobs directly.
The major problem with
resume databases is that relatively few employers pay the high cost to
belong to them.
Some large companies do, but keep in mind, there are millions of engineering employers
in the United States. It is the case
that the majority of engineering employers in America are considered
small companies. They are rarely spending thousands of dollars on a resume database in order to fill a few engineering jobs.
If you are going to post
your engineering resume, do so with more than just one or two job sites
as this will rarely produce a new engineering job. Everyone knows about
Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder, but there other places to post your
engineering resume as well, and we are not referring to the thousands of obscure
engineering, technical, and general job sites you should avoid.
The top 10 job sites for posting your resume, which may actually
have engineering employers utilizing them, comprise nearly 100%
of all resume database paying employers. As a rule of
thumb, if you have not heard of a particular general or engineering
job site, do not waste your time posting your resume to it. Stick to
large job boards such as
Monster,
HotJobs,
and
CareerBuilder,
etc. if you
are going to integrate resume posting into your job search efforts.
Top 10 Engineering Job Search Advice
1. Utilize an engineering job search site that indexes engineering job
postings from employer's sites, major job sites, niche sites, orgs, and
specialty sites. Do not waste your time searching individual job sites.
2. Never pay to belong to an engineering, specialty, or general job site no matter how tempting they make it sound.
3. Do not sign up or register for a job board in order to apply for
an engineering job. Apply directly to engineering employers only.
4. Use a targeted niche engineering job site for job searching as
they provide more relevant job ads, employers, information, and resources.
5. Do not sign up for a job site, engineering job sites included, in order to see
job search results. Never give anyone your home address.
6. Get off of job boards some of the time and utilize other
methods for locating job openings. Like a good salesperson would do,
diversify your new job prospecting approach and methods. One of them
will come through.
7. Job search and apply for jobs for more than a couple
of hours per day. There is only a lack of jobs if the effort to find one
is mediocre.
8. Locate and research employers outside of job boards. There
are millions of engineering employers and jobs.
Find relevant companies to market your services to. Be creative and think outside of the job board.
9. Only invest time searching for jobs through
engineering recruiters
if your engineering skills, experience, and work history are exceptional.
10. Do not rely on posting your resume to general job sites or
engineering job sites. Employers do use them, and you
should certain ones too, but it is a relatively small number who pay for these services.
**Do not underestimate
how critical your resume presentation is when you apply to a company and
when you take it to interviews.
