Redesigning online job search enginesToday's online job search engines like Monster, Careerbuilder, Hot Jobs, Dice, & most others are designed extremely inefficiently & outdated. They base their search on a word or group of words (and in few cases certain demographic statistics) instead of your skill set, your experience, your career path, your education, etc. That's the worst way to search for a job or employment. When you look for a job, do you look for a word or group of words or do you look for a job based on the description, based on your skills, experience, a specific salary, location, & various other work related details? I'm guessing the latter alternative & that's how you search for any job. Matching your skills sets, background, experience, salary to the job that best fits you. Not the other way around. Online job search engines take the people factor out of the equation. Maybe that's why people have a hard time finding jobs using these online search engines today & hence the reason they need to be redesigned. I never used keywords when searching for a job because there were jobs that were essentially the same position lurking in the background with a different title. I felt vastly more comfortable with just inputting the city and state and going through the list that was generated from that minimum criteria. In that way, I could look at all jobs for the area or areas that I wanted and cull the ones that were not for me. Occasionally, I would just input my zipcode and check the radius box at 20 miles.
I'd have to agree with you on this. Some employers - namely the cold-call sales shops- have gotten clever by plugging in keywords at the bottom of the advertisements, thus ensuring their ad pops up regardless of your interest in the position. | |
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