Important Advice About Job Sites That Providers Do Not Want You to Know - Part 6
Job sites exist online to make money, not to serve your best interests. Job sites online are no different than government entities that are set up to serve you as citizens.
Job one for any job site online or government entity is to make money or get funded. Without revenue or funding neither of them can do diddly-squat as their staff members are not going to work for nothing very long without being paid. Serving you is simply a by-product of being able to do so.
It is important to understand this because job sites online are going to create revenue whether you get hired or not. While they would like you to be hired, and for them to have some part in it, they are not going to jump off the roof of their building if you are not hired.
In the hiring process, you will be well served to be as cunning as a serpent, as clever as a fox and as quick as a rabbit. What you know about the hiring process is your greatest asset, and what you do not know is your greatest liability.
One thing you should know about posting your resume online is when to fill out the equivalent of a job application online and when to pass. When filing out job applications online that are compartmentalized, you should pass. Compartmentalized is when the online provider is having you put your first name in a separate block of space, your last name in a separate block of space, etc.
What is really going on here is information gathering with an intent to sell your personal information for profit. The online provider will deny it but the reality is that it happens and becomes a revenue source for the provider.
For years your bank routinely sold your personal information on the sly to credit card companies and other direct mail interests and made a ton of money. Eventually what the banks and associated financial companies were doing became public knowledge, leading to the privacy notices you receive today that allow you to opt out of the system.
Unfortunately, the effect of this law is zero, zip, nada because the very companies we are talking about are too often corporate conglomerates with many wholly-owned subsidiaries that can also use your information as revenue-generating sources of income. It is only their third-party partners that cannot use your information if you so request.
Filling out online job applications that are compartmentalized can also be very time consuming and annoying.
When an online provider simply asks for some basic information and then presents a block and says “cut and paste your resume here” then go ahead and do it if they are not using compartmentalized methods and you can accomplish the task in a few minutes.
Online sites are also famous for allowing you to post your resume online for free. When they have thousands of resumes posted the online providers sell advertising as another source of revenue.
Online providers try to bring you back to their site by convincing you that they are helping you by identifying job opportunities. Most of this is nonsense. I signed up for one of these accounts and put in the limitations I would accept , such as not moving out of my local area and a certain compensation level that I would accept in exchange for my time, talent and expertise. All of this was routinely ignored by the online provider.
They would send me a job alert for an engineering position in New Jersey when what I would tolerate was corporate writing projects and an unwillingness to move out of state. The job they sent required a bachelor of science degree in engineering when my bachelor’s degree was in a different academic study.
Needless to say, this was a complete waste of my time but valuable to them as they could crow to advertisers about how they were helping the potential hires who posted their resume online.
My best advice in situations like this is: Listen carefully to what someone says and then watch even more carefully what they do, because what they do is who they are.
Use online job sources by following the general outlines I have suggested here and you will avoid a lot of heartache and stay out of trouble.
Here is an additional piece of advice for believers who like to pray their way to success: Pray like it depends on God and then act like it depends on you. You must take action in your own best self-interest or you will never succeed at anything. God gives the birds food but he does not personally deliver it to their nests.
(Editor’s Note: This is Part 6 of a 6-Part series.)
Read my informative, detailed articles on interviews, getting hired and promoted, including:
“Want a Six-Figure Income Without Getting a College Degree of Any Kind? Here Is How”
“What Warren Buffett Thinks Is Important When Hiring Staff for Berkshire Hathaway”
“Career Fairs Best Serve Everyone But the Jobless”
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