You may have a fantastic cover letter drafted, a beautiful resume, and follow up strategies in place, but none of them will be any good unless you actually get them in front of a prospective employer. There is no point writing a stellar resume if you’re not going to submit it to any of the online job postings, at the end of the day. Did you know that, on average, there is a 14% staff turnover in all organizations, even if they aren’t hiring? What this means is that there are plenty of jobs out there – including your next dream job.
The big question, therefore, is where you can find all these fantastic job openings. There are lots of different opportunities out there, with online job postings perhaps being the best one, but certainly not the only one. You can also consider professional and personal networks, newspaper ads, headhunters, direct contact with a company, trade or business publications, and so on. Nevertheless, as previously stated, the online options are generally the best ones out there.
All About Online Job Postings:
The internet is one of the best tools available to us today, whether it is for shopping or for finding your next job. Thousands of different websites list all the different openings available at the moment, sometimes across the world. And all of these websites also allow you to store your resume for various employers to find it.
To get the best results, make sure you regularly visit websites to see if they have any new online job openings of interest to you. Do also set up an email alert if you can, so that you are notified whenever a new opening that suits your skills and interests is made available. Do make sure that you use your personal email address for these alerts, rather than a work email address, for obvious reasons.
Do also make sure that you upload your resume to any websites that accept such. Employers and headhunters still use these options to find applicants, sometimes even before posting their available vacancies to the general public. If you were to see these websites as fish tanks, then your uploaded resume is like a baited hook. It means that you can simply leave it there and get on with your day until someone bites. Do make sure that you know how long you can keep your resume up, as it is common for websites to remove it after 90 days if there has been no interest. Usually, you only need to quickly refresh it, to have it listed for another 90 days.
A final thing to remember is that if you respond to any online job postings, you need to make it very clear that’s where you found them. Let the prospective employer know which website you used to find the vacancy, and on what date. This is because they will be collecting data about the effectiveness of their recruitment strategies. It also shows that you are keen to make things easier for them.
