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5 Ways a Job Board-Focused Search Will Ruin Your Job Hunt

Published on Feb 11, 2019

While submitting your resume to job boards, LinkedIn jobs, and recruiter/company websites is probably the most popular job search technique, it's actually one of the worst for most professions. In this deck, Job Search Expert Cheryl Lynch Simpson demonstrates why that is.

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5 Ways a Job Board-Focused Search

Will Ruin Your Job Hunt
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How many different job search strategies are you leveraging in your hunt for a new role?

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just 1 or 2?

Whoops! That's a problem. 
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Putting all of your job search eggs into one basket will reduce the interviews you can secure.

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There are 6 primary job search strategies:

  • Networking
  • Company Targeting
  • Thought Leadership
  • Spot Opportunity Pursuit
  • Recruiters
  • Job Boards
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You give yourself the best chance for success

by mixing & matching your job search strategies. 
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Applying for open positions on job boards is arguably the most popular strategy.

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But it's far & away the

least successful 
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here are 5 reasons why

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Job boards typically yield results

i.e., interviews, only 15-20% of the time. 
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that means that 80-85% of your

submissions garner zero attention. zero! 
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85% of all available jobs

are never published. 
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which means that when you apply for jobs online

you're competing with millions for just 15% of published jobs. 
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To get selected for an interview

you have to max the number of keywords in your resume. 
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and that means you better do an

exceptional job of identifying & embedding them in the first place. 
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most executive roles are not

filled via job boards.
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so, if you're seeking an executive role

it would be smart to leverage a different strategy. 
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Because job board submissions go through HR

they progress slowly, often taking weeks. 
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You have to wait for internal recruiters & hr folks

to examine your candidacy &/or resume. 
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so if you want to land a job

* faster *
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you have to master 1 of the other 4

job search strategies.
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which one(s)

will you choose? And why? 
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(C) 2019 ExecutiveResumeRescue.com

& Cheryl Lynch Simpson, CMRW, ACRW, COPNS, G3 

Cheryl Simpson

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