Chapter 20, Online Career Services
Outline
20.1
Introduction
20.2
Resources for the Job Seeker
20.3
Online Opportunities for Employers
20.3.1 Posting Jobs Online
20.3.2 Problems with Recruiting on the Web
20.3.3 Diversity in the Workplace
20.3.4 Recruiting Services
20.3.5 Testing Potential Employees Online
20.4
Online Career Sites
20.4.1 Comprehensive Career Sites
20.4.2 Technical Positions
20.4.3 Contracting Online
20.4.4 Executive Positions
20.4.5 Students and Young Professionals
20.4.6 Other Online Career Services
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20.1 Introduction
• Large, comprehensive job sites
• Interestspecific job sites
• Online recruiting services streamline the hiring
process
• Allow job seekers to concentrate their energies in
careers that are of interest to them
• Entrylevel positions
– Positions commonly sought by individuals who are entering
a specific field or the job market for the first time
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20.2 Resources for the Job Seeker
• Reduces the amount of time spent applying for a
position
• Job seekers can request a specific position in a
specific industry through a search engine
• Intelligent agents
– Designed by the job seeker to find positions that match their
requirements
• Resume submission and storage
• Employment networks
– Vault.com
– Wetfeet.com
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20.2 Resources for the Job Seeker
The Monster.com home page. (Courtesy of Monster.com.)
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20.3 Online Opportunities for
Employers
• Potentially large pool of applicants
• Cost of posting
• Maintaining humantohuman contact in addition
to online recruiting efforts
• Increasing office diversity
• Enhancing the corporate culture
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20.3 Online Opportunities for
Employers
FlipDog.com job search. (Courtesy of FlipDog.com)
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20.3.1 Posting Jobs Online
• Requires careful planning
• Feebased postings
– $100$200
– Postings typically remain on the Web site for 30–60 days
– Be careful to post to sites that are most likely to be visited by
eligible candidates
• Consider the vast number of postings already on
the Web
• Define what makes your position unique
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20.3.1 Posting Jobs Online
• Online career sites
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Monster.com
JobFind.com
HotJobs.com
CareerPath.com
America’s Job Bank
CareerWeb
Jobs.com
Career.com
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20.3.2 Problems with Recruiting on
the Web
• Resume filtering software
– Scans a pool of resumes for keywords that match the job
description
– Increases the number of resumes that receive some attention
– Might overlook someone with similar skills to those listed in
the job description
– Digital transmissions can also create problems as certain
software platforms are not always acceptable by the
recruiting software
– Confidentiality is an issue for job seekers
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20.3.3 Diversity in the Workplace
• Corporate culture
– Responsibilities, employees, schedules, deadlines and
projects that contribute to the working environment
• Enhances creativity and enthusiasm
• Demographicspecific career sites
– Blackvoices.com
– Hirediversity.com
– The Diversity Directory
– BilingualJobs.com
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20.3.3 Diversity in the Workplace
Career opportunities at BlackVoices. (Courtesy of
BlackVoices.com.)
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20.3.4 Recruiting Services
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Match individuals to positions
Time saving
Making the best match possible
Recruiting services and software
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Advantage Hiring, Inc.
Recruitsoft.com
Peoplescape.com
SkillsVillage.com
Hire.com
MorganWorks.com
Futurestep.com
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20.3.4 Recruiting Services
Advantage Hiring, Inc.’s NetInterview™ service. (Courtesy of
Advantage Hiring, Inc.)
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20.3.5 Testing Potential Employees
Online
• Decision making, problem solving and personality
• Reduce the cost of inhouse testing and to make
the interview process more effective
• eTest
– Skills assessment
– Tips for interviewing the candidate
• Career placement exercises
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20.4.1 Comprehensive Career Sites
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Monster.com
JobsOnline.com
HotJobs.com
Jobtrak.com
Headhunter.net
– CruelWorld
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20.4.1 Comprehensive Career Sites
Cruel World online career services. (Courtesy of Cruel World, Inc.)
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20.4.2 Technical Positions
• Technical positions
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Technical positions are among the most widely available
Limited job loyalty and high turnover rates
Dice.com
JustComputerJobs.com
HireAbility.com
Bid4Geeks.com
HotDispatch.com
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20.4.3 Contracting Online
• Allows businesses to post positions for which they
want to hire outside resources, and individuals can
identify projects that best suit their interests,
schedules and skills on a projectbyproject basis
• Contracting sites
– Guru.com
– Monster.com’s Talent Market
– eLance.com
– FreeAgent
– eWork Exchange
– MBAFreeAgent.com
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20.4.3 Contracting Online
eLance.com request for proposal (RFP) example. (Courtesy of eLance, Inc.)
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20.4.4 Executive Positions
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Extensive process
Must exercise a higher level of caution
Requires more specific criteria
Executive sites
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SixFigureJobs
Execunet.com
Monster.com’s ChiefMonster
Nationjob.com
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20.4.5 Students and Young
Professionals
• Individuals still in school and seeking internships,
college graduates and young professionals
• Review previous intern experiences
• Matching positions to college or university major
• Young professional Web sites
– Experience.com
– Internshipprograms.com
– The Princeton Review
– Campuscareercenter.com
– Brassringcampus.com
– Collegegrads.com
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20.4.6 Other Online Career Services
• Resume design
• Calculating relocation expenses
• Calculating expected income
– Salary.com
• Career matching services
– CareerPower.com
• Interviewing techniques and training
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