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Job-Board Journalism: Selling out the American Job Hunter

“The problem lies not just in the piss-poor success of these [resume posting] services at getting you hired, but in their directing you to devote inordinate amounts of precious time and resources to a job hunting method that isn’t at all likely to land you a job. The problem lies in a perceived conflict of interest; in the implied editorial integrity of newspapers you trust; and in a job board’s failure to disclose the truth about the advice and service it is providing. The problem lies in winking at the statistics about success rates. The problem lies in turning a blind editorial eye to the naked truth: the job boards are a lousy way to hire or to get hired.”

An expose of the true hiring rates of job boards like Monster.com and the inherent conflicts of interest between CareerBuilder.com and CareerJournal.com and their newspaper parent companies; these papers publish articles encouraging job hunters to post resumes at their job sites while hiding how poorly those sites are at matching job hunters with employers.

Apparently, Monster.com does best but only 3.6% of jobs posted on their service are filled through them. The best way to get a job? Referrals. From Ask The Headhunter, a good resource for employers and job hunters.

URLs:

http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/newsletter/OE20030617.htm

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