Are Job Search Engines a Thing of the Past?

The first thing that most people do when they do search for a job is they take the rather easy way of looking online. There are many job search engines on the internet, and from region to region, they cover an expansive amount of territory. When they first came out, many were applauding them for their ingenuity and utilisation of the power of the internet to help job seekers expand the scope of their search and even expose themselves to that much more companies and corporations looking to hire.

From small businesses to large multinational companies, they are using the online job search engine in varying degrees, and surely, this was a step up from the classifieds section in the newspaper From the few that you would get wind off in a day, this was literally exponentially increased to a possibility of thousands of jobs that you could be exposed to. However, in all these benefits that people were lauding about, there was something that they did not notice.

They did not notice the fact that while this internet job search engine was a novel idea and was beneficial to the job seeker and the business in general, it still didn't supply them with a targeted and focused way to search for the job of their dreams or the correct applicants to match the job description. Let's just work on one example, which is the business seeker, who posts a job online and wants to higher someone with a specialised set of skills. What happens is that they will be placed under a category of possible applicants - which means no matter how focused their search may be, they still have to be placed under a general umbrella category, which would mean that they would get hundreds and thousands of applicants who would apply for the job. 'MEDIA' is just one example.

If you are looking for someone who is skilled in Internet media and digital PR, you would still have to place your job posting under this category. Which would mean that people who even have no skills in this area, but perhaps have skills in media or communication would still send you their application? On your side, you would also do the same, as the job seeker, and send in your application to hope for the best, because you cannot find the exact combination of factors that would allow you to get the job that you really want.

This really slows down the entire process, and if you need to get a highway straight to the companies that offer positions that you want, or if you are a business owner and just want to handle applicants who are 75 - 80% qualified for the job, then the suggestion would be that you sign up with a head hunting and employment agency. Only they can give you these results. Its targeted, its focused and it allows you to cut through all the clutter and get where you want to be.