Searching for a job can be tedious and frustrating especially when you spend countless hours
on a traditional job board only to find nothing.
Recently, around 2 - 4 % of people posting resumes
on a traditional job board found employment.
Not exact matches
After deciding
on the role to fill, they go through the
traditional route of posting ads to different
job boards, screening candidates, interviewing those who seem the most qualified and then hiring the person who is the best fit.
Facebook will now integrate with ZipRecruiter — an aggregator that allows those looking to fill
jobs to post ads to many
traditional job boards, as well as sites like LinkedIn, Google and Twitter — to boost the number of
job ads available
on its platform targeting its 2 billion monthly active users.
In
traditional resumes, word selection was far less stressed, however, in the today's modern market, the standards have changed with competition being fiercer than ever
on job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder, and TheLadders.
Other companies will use social networking sites and LinkedIn to recruit, in addition to using
traditional means of recruiting like posting help wanted ads in newspapers and listing
jobs on job boards like Monster or CareerBuilder.
Yet, when you ask these folks why it took so long, many will frankly own up to their over reliance
on traditional job search approaches; namely resumes, cover letters, and
job boards.
They will contact you and ask you to email them a
traditional resume along with some more information about yourself (e.g. portfolio examples) that they simply can't view
on the
job boards or company website.
Anyone who's tried the
traditional methods of
job searching, like posting the resume online and responding to
job posting
on job boards, company websites, and other outlets knows that the response rate is often minimal.