Of all the job sites I used in my last job search, careerbuilder takes the cake as the most annoying and spam-ridden. From the moment I signed up, I started getting irrelevant and fraudulent emails from purpored employers who liked my resume and then proceeded to offer jobs that bore no relationship to my job experience.
Even after I pulled my resume, I continued to get spam email from jobspammers. I wrote to their customer service and they told me it wasn't their fault. Well, who's fault is it that I get emails from spammers who use some variation of careerbuilder's name in their emails?
There are much better sites like hot jobs, dice, monster, simply hired etc. that don't result in a lifetime subscription to junk emails. Stay away from careerbuilder and your career will be better off!
Got any favorite job search sites? Got some others to warn people about? Here's the chance to help your fellow grownups!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Job hunting for grown ups
Job hunting is no fun. For Anyone. But I've had to do it many times since turning 40 and I've picked up a few tips along the way for other grownups.
Get the interview first. Your career history may spanover 20 years and you probably want to share every minute of it. Don't! Sharing your work history before the Internet and the PC age just dates you. Update your resume by dropping anything you did more than 15 years ago unless it is absolutely relevant to the job you want now. You want to pique a recruiters interest not drag them through the dung heap of your life history.
Use the web...and no you don't need a Facebook page! There are some great job hunting websites today for grownups like linkedin, hotjobs, craigslist, specialized sites by career (like marketingsherpa.com & mediabistro.com for marketeers) etc. Cruise them daily. But there's also lots of scams out there and I'll be talking about some of those as we go along. Looking for a job is your job right now but the web makes it easy-- you can make some of these jobs come to you by starting a personal search and having emails drop in your box.
Hang in there and please share your own grown up tips. Let's leverage our wealth of wisdom
Get the interview first. Your career history may spanover 20 years and you probably want to share every minute of it. Don't! Sharing your work history before the Internet and the PC age just dates you. Update your resume by dropping anything you did more than 15 years ago unless it is absolutely relevant to the job you want now. You want to pique a recruiters interest not drag them through the dung heap of your life history.
Use the web...and no you don't need a Facebook page! There are some great job hunting websites today for grownups like linkedin, hotjobs, craigslist, specialized sites by career (like marketingsherpa.com & mediabistro.com for marketeers) etc. Cruise them daily. But there's also lots of scams out there and I'll be talking about some of those as we go along. Looking for a job is your job right now but the web makes it easy-- you can make some of these jobs come to you by starting a personal search and having emails drop in your box.
Hang in there and please share your own grown up tips. Let's leverage our wealth of wisdom
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