You cannot open a paper or turn on the news without hearing about the importance of job creation. What is often overlooked and rarely discussed is the amount of actual job openings that fail to get filled.
We are buried with senior level searches, the busiest we have been in years. Others in our field are saying the same thing. I recently had my assistant spend 2 hours on the Internet to see how many job openings she could find. She looked through the top job boards, sites like TheLadders, VC sites, and the sites of many of the largest technology companies in the country (Intel, Cisco, IBM etc). How many job openings do you think she found?
A. 5000
B. 15,000
C. 35,000
D. OTHER
The answer is D.
In two hours she uncovered close to 100,000 posted job openings. They covered most every level and title you could imagine. Granted some may have been filled and the boards may not have been updated, but there are surely countless job openings that are not posted on the sites we checked. The bottom line….. There are many more job openings than most people realize. While it seems logical this would be seen as good news, why doesn’t it feel good?
In two hours she uncovered close to 100,000 posted job openings. They covered most every level and title you could imagine. Granted some may have been filled and the boards may not have been updated, but there are surely countless job openings that are not posted on the sites we checked. The bottom line….. There are many more job openings than most people realize. While it seems logical this would be seen as good news, why doesn’t it feel good?
There could be 1,000,000 high paying jobs in your backyard but unless you land these jobs, who cares. If you have been looking for work you know how difficult it is to land decent interviews, let alone secure job offers. You also know how frustrating it is to go through the interview process and only to never hear back from the hiring company. It happens all too often. With a market loaded with unemployed, very qualified technology professionals on one end and companies with openings on the other, what’s the problem? Why are these jobs remaining unfilled? There are many reasons, some caused by the hiring companies (jobs being put on hold, fear about the economy, lack of urgency, seeking a “perfect candidate” etc) and some caused by YOU. Most job seekers I work with simply do not find enough of these open positions to land a job. They tend to find the jobs that hundreds of others are also finding (job postings). Talk about competition. Just getting your resume read is a small victory. So what can you do?
My advice and the advice I have given for many years is this: TRY A NEW APPROACH.
I talk to very talented people every day. Companies would be lucky to have them on their team. And yet, they remain unemployed, struggling to secure interviews. Unless they improve their skills as it pertains to finding a job, they will most likely continue to struggle. A couple of things that can immediately help you improve your results:
I talk to very talented people every day. Companies would be lucky to have them on their team. And yet, they remain unemployed, struggling to secure interviews. Unless they improve their skills as it pertains to finding a job, they will most likely continue to struggle. A couple of things that can immediately help you improve your results:
1. Stop spending the majority of your time applying to online job posts. Your chances of landing these jobs is slim, it wastes valuable time and in the end, kills your confidence.
2. Read the following two articles and try apply these methods for 30 days. You have nothing to lose.
How to Approach Hiring Managers
http://firstroundcareeradvisoryservices.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-approach-hiring-managers.html
How to Find More Quality Job Openings
http://firstroundcareeradvisoryservices.blogspot.com/2009/09/finding-more-quality-job-openings.html
How to Approach Hiring Managers
http://firstroundcareeradvisoryservices.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-approach-hiring-managers.html
How to Find More Quality Job Openings
http://firstroundcareeradvisoryservices.blogspot.com/2009/09/finding-more-quality-job-openings.html
Need more proof that the market is filled with job openings. Read the following article from the Wall Street Journal which is well written and gives very good insight into this issue. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703927504575540491410169152.html?mod=WSJ_Careers_CareerJournal_4
Nick D'Ambrosio 
