haha, very amusing.

Indeed & SimplyHired destroy LinkUp. Sorry but it’s true. They do what LinkUp can, plus a whole lot more.

To add to “To take care of the looking-in-the-wrong-place issue, search the “job aggregator” Websites, like Indeed, SimplyHired, and JustJobs which pull job postings from job boards as well as employers and associations.” I’d like to share another aggregator site, http://jobs.trovit.com

Thanks!

I agree with many of the other posts. This is an excellent article and my colleauges and I at the WorkSource centers in King County, WA are using it with our customers.

Thank you and all at job-hunt.org for your quality and timely information. You are a great resource!

Maureen

This post is so meaningful and content-rich, I am bookmarking it for my clients!

Heeding your drumbeat that job board-centric searches often will fall short of a job seeker’s needs and expectations is necessary. Your post provides many pragmatic and do-able methods to refine one’s search, research target companies and contacts (employees, hiring decision-makers, influencers, etc.) within those companies, build relationships … and more.

Another great point: MANY smaller and mid-size companies do NOT advertise on job boards; and MANY of the current opportunities for jobs are, in fact, created by those size companies. Recently, a client of mine submitted his highly targeted and compelling resume message to a ‘green’ company he noticed was expanding in the area (NO advertisements for openings were published). Soon, he not only got an interview, but landed a job in sales management. Not only was this new job he landed in a company that was not advertising openings, but it was within an industry in which my client had never worked.

It works to think outside of the job-board box! And it’s imperative to take the action steps that you have described to create a tractionable job search!

Excellent post, Susan!

Thank you!

Jacqui