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This week’s job tip concerns broadening your searching to be more than just looking at Monster each and every day. It’s surprising, but for many people they rely on Monster (or Careerbuilder) to identify their next job for them. Unluckily, in today’s job market that’s just not enough. If you want to find all of the probabilities available, you’re going to need to dig deeper and work somewhat harder. At some point, it seems like practically all jobs end up in the internet (somewhere). The difficulty is where to look to find them. The big search engines (like Monster and Careerbuilder) are solid resources that provide tons of information - almost all of it at no cost. However, many jobs don’t finish up there. Why? Well, to start with, employers must pay to put positions on these sites. If they have 50 openings, it might not be reasonable to put all 50 on Monster.com. Rather they may pay to post just some of the critical or high-profile positions on a big search engine. The remaining positions they may post at a regional/local or less expensive search engine. This is even more true for a smaller sized company without the resources to post and procure all of their openings. All the jobs will be available (of course) on the companies own website since that is free. Another issue is that there’s not risk or cost for an applicant to apply for open positions. They may or may not possess the required experience or credentials for the work. Many employers experience a literal flood of resumes which are nearly impossible to sift through to find the truly qualified applicants. This also deters employers for posting on big search engines. Again, this can be probably more true for smaller employers (where lots of the jobs are found). Try this sometime. Pick a big and small employer in your town and find their Career web pages. Note the number of jobs and then try to find all these jobs on Monster or Careerbuilder. When we gave it a try we found that simply a percentage were posted. If we were looking for that specific opening, we would have been out of luck. So remember - Monster.com is a superb site with a lot of jobs and data, but make sure you look beyond it and branch out into other areas to uncover your next job. Try other search engines, check out your newspaper, and go to the employer’s own web site to find all the jobs. Best of luck! To find work in Minnesota use the Minnesota Job Bank HQ, the one source MN Job Bank.
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