How to get the most from Online Job Boards
At PCR we find the best Job Boards for technology people in the Broadcast and Digital Media space are Jobsite, Jobserve, Grapevine, & Monster, along with good reports of Total Jobs.
Online job boards will be an essential tool for your search. Thousands of recruiters and employers use the boards everyday to advertise their jobs and search their online CV databases.
Each job board is a shop window to a whole range of services and tools to support your search, so you must invest time to understand how each site works. Each site has slightly different functionality for candidate services, but you must get them working well for you, so you can be confident that you're on-top of that route to market.
Below are our top tips for getting the most from Job Boards:
- Set up a good vacancy search. Take time to set up your automatic vacancy searches. Each job board allows you to create a vacancy search, specific to your skills, rates and geographic requirements. It will then automatically email you the jobs that match your criteria. It will take some fine tuning for you to be happy it's delivering you relevant vacancies and initially, you might find it's sending you no jobs at all - then you open the search a little too far and you've got 100's of irrelevant vacancies clogging your inbox. Get it right and you've a fresh pool of relevant vacancies to review each day, to consider if any of them warrant a quality application.
- Post your cv onto online databases. Take the time to post your cv and profile onto each of the job boards we've recommended.1000's of the recruiters (and employers) search these databases daily to find suitable candidates. As part of the process you'll be asked to complete a profile that summarises your ideal requirements. Be sure this profile is clear, concise and accurate, with regard to
• Your current job title and role
• Your ideal job title/s and role
• Permanent, contract or both
• Your main skills
• Minimum & ideal salary range - (Be realistic and competitive)
• Your realistic geographical requirements.
If you do this well it should mean that most of the approaches you get from recruiters and employers are relevant. - Take your cv off the job boards when you find a role. Once you've been successful in finding your new role, be sure to take your cv and profile off the site/s.First, this will mean that you're not forever interrupted by recruiters checking your availability, and second you don't want anybody from your new employer inadvertently seeing your profile and thinking you're still looking for an opportunity.