General and Finance Job Sites
You have probably noticed
if you have been looking for a finance job that you have a
few options in the area of job boards and financial and banking job sites, but do
you really? You have most likely figured out that many finance and
general job sites leave a little to be desired. Most job sites seem to have been created for
reasons other than helping you find a job, like pushing education
literature down your throat.
Think of an
finance job search like trying to find something to eat and
job sites are restaurants. Sure, you can pick out your current
favorite finance job search site such as Monster, CareerBuilder,
HotJobs, and others. What if instead of always going to your favorite place you go to a gourmet job
site food court that has all of the best choices and many options,
meaning all of the top finance job sites, general job sites,
finance niche sites, and
finance employers in one place. You might
say it is a menu that includes items from all of the leading restaurants.
That is what
this finance job site offers. We do offer finance
employers the ability to post, market, and feature their finance jobs and
company career site directly on a niche finance job site,
but we also offer the Internet's premier job search engine. It indexes nearly every
finance, banking, and accounting job from all major job sites, niche finance sites, orgs,
associations and finance employer's job pages.
This finance job site offers real value and is exactly how you
should manage an efficient finance job search. Finance job
searching is not necessarily enjoyable, so if you are going to
invest your job search time wisely, utilize a finance job
site that presents relevant industry information and allows you to sort through jobs from multiple sources.
Posting Finance Jobs
Overpaying for
individual finance job postings on general job boards is
something you do if you are not well versed in all of your job posting
options. The massive exposure your company's finance jobs and company
career site can receive inexpensively with targeted finance niche
sites and proper search engine optimization and marketing techniques is immense.
A
strong corporate or agency finance recruiter knows that expensive
job postings on general job sites, that quickly get buried within other
jobs, is not how you successfully fill finance jobs. A key to
success with job postings, and a good return on your recruiting
investment, is to make sure your finance job postings will be seen on
niche recruitment sites, which often attract passive job seekers, and
make sure your jobs are distributed to multiple large and small job
sites, blogs, and social / business networking sites throughout the Internet.
Job postings only attract
some of the potential finance job seekers. If you have money to
invest on recruiting, find some alternative marketing avenues, such as
building a long-term brand on niche finance career and job sites,
and consider utilizing pay-per-click advertising such as with
Google AdWords
or
Simply Hired. An important method
that marketing departments have been using for years is to advertise a
company logo and link on relevant sites. The only proven and
effective way to build a long-term brand is to have people consistently
see your logo.
Avoid the quick fix method to attract the top finance job
seekers. Look outside of the large general job sites if you want
to develop a high quality finance recruiting campaign that attracts
the top finance and banking candidates year after year.
Finance Resume Posting
Posting your finance resume
seems easy and harmless enough, but is posting your finance
resume worth the effort? Maybe, but you need to consider a few things.
When managing an finance job search, do not relying on others to sort through a
finance resume database to find you. It can happen, but do not rely
on it. Be proactive. As much as you can, research, approach,
and apply to finance employers and jobs directly.
The major problem with
finance resume databases is that relatively few finance and banking employers
pay the high cost to search finance resume databases.
Some large companies do, but keep in mind, there are hundreds of thousands of finance employers
in the U.S. It is the case
that the majority of finance employers in America are considered
small companies. They are rarely spending thousands of dollars on a
financial resume database in order to fill a few finance jobs.
If you are going to post
your finance resume, do so with more than just one or two job sites
as this will rarely produce a new job. Everyone knows about
Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder, but there other places to post your
finance resume as well, and we are not referring to the thousands of obscure
finance and general job sites you should avoid.
The top 10 job sites for posting your finance resume, which may actually
have finance employers utilizing them, comprise nearly 100%
of all resume database paying
finance employers. As a rule of
thumb, if you have not heard of a particular general or finance
job site, do not waste your time posting your resume to it. Stick to
large job boards such as
Monster,
HotJobs,
and
CareerBuilder,
etc. if you are going to integrate resume posting into your finance job search efforts.
Top 10 Finance Job Search Advice
1. Utilize a finance job search site that indexes finance job
postings from employer's sites, major job sites, niche sites, orgs, and
specialty sites. Do not waste your time searching individual job sites.
2. Never pay to belong to a finance, specialty, or general job site no matter how tempting they make it sound.
3. Do not sign up or register for a job board in order to apply for
a finance job. Apply directly to finance and banking employers only.
4. Use a targeted niche finance job site for job searching as
they provide more relevant job ads, information, employers, and resources.
5. Do not sign up for a job site, finance job sites included, in order to see
job search results. Never give anyone your home address.
6. Get off of job boards some of the time and utilize other
methods for locating job openings. Like a good salesperson
would do, diversify your new job prospecting approach and methods. One
of them will come through.
7. Job search and apply for finance jobs for more than a couple
of hours per day. There is only a lack of jobs if the effort to find one
is mediocre.
8. Locate and research employers outside of job boards. There
are millions of finance employers and jobs. Find relevant companies to
market your services to. Be creative and think outside of the job board.
9. Only invest time searching for jobs through finance recruiters
if your finance skills, experience, and work history are exceptional.
10. Do not rely on posting your resume to general job sites or
finance job sites. Finance employers do use them, and you should
use certain ones too, but it is a relatively small number who pay for these services.
**Do not underestimate
how critical your resume presentation is when you apply to a company and
when you take it to interviews.
