General and Education Job Sites
You have probably noticed
if you have been looking for an education job that you have a
few options in the area of job boards and education job sites, but do
you really? You have most likely figured out that many education and
general job sites leave a little to be desired. Most job
sites have been created for one purpose, which you have undoubtedly
figured out on your own.
Think of an
education job search like trying to find something to eat and
job sites are restaurants. Sure, you can pick out your current
favorite education 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 education job sites, general job sites,
education niche sites, and
education employers in one place. You might
say it is a menu that includes items from all of the leading restaurants.
That is what
this education job site offers. We do offer education
employers the ability to post, market, and feature their jobs and
company career site directly on a niche education job site,
but we also offer the Internet's premier job search engine. It indexes nearly every
education and teaching job from all major job sites, niche
education sites, orgs, and education employer's job pages.
This education job site offers real value and is exactly how you
should manage an efficient education job search. Job
searching is not necessarily enjoyable, so if you are going to
invest your job search time wisely, utilize an education job
site that presents relevant industry information and allows you to sort through jobs from multiple sources.
Posting Education Jobs
Overpaying for
individual education 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 education jobs and company
career site can receive inexpensively with targeted education niche
sites and proper search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM) techniques is immense.
A
strong corporate or agency education recruiter knows that expensive
job postings on general job sites, that quickly get buried within other
jobs, is not how you successfully fill jobs. A key to
success with job postings, and a good return on your recruiting
investment, is to make sure your 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.
Job postings only attract
some of the potential education job seekers. If you have money to
invest on recruiting, find some alternative marketing avenues, such as
building a long-term brand on niche education career and job sites,
and consider utilizing pay-per-click advertising such as with
Google AdWords
and 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 and tagline.
Avoid the quick fix method to attract the top education job
seekers. Look outside of the large general job sites if you want
to develop a high quality education recruiting campaign that attracts
the top teachers, administrators, instructors, and higher education candidates year after year.
Education Resume Posting
Posting your
education resume
seems easy and harmless enough, but is posting your
resume worth the effort? Maybe, but you need to consider a few things.
When managing an education job search, do not rely on others to sort through a 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 employers and education jobs directly.
The major problem with
resume databases is that relatively few education employers pay the high cost to
belong to them.
Some large companies do, but keep in mind, there are hundreds of
thousands education employers
in the United States. It is the case
that the majority of education employers in America are considered
small companies, colleges, or school districts. They are rarely spending thousands of dollars on a resume database in order to fill a few
education or
financial jobs.
If you are going to post
your education resume, do so with more than just one or two job sites
as this will rarely produce a new education job. Everyone knows about
Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder, but there other places to post your
education resume as well, and we are not referring to the thousands of obscure
education and general job sites you should avoid.
The top 10 job sites for posting your education resume, which may actually
have education employers utilizing them, comprise nearly 100%
of all resume database paying
education employers. As a rule of
thumb, if you have not heard of a particular general or education
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 job search efforts.
Top 10 Education Job Search Advice
1. Utilize an education job search site that indexes education 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 an education, 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 an education job. Apply directly to education employers only.
4. Use a targeted niche education job site for job searching as
they provide more relevant job ads, employers, information, and resources.
5. Do not sign up for a job site, education 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 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 education 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
education recruiters
if your education related skills, experience, and work history are exceptional.
10. Do not rely on posting your resume to general job sites or
education job sites. Educations employers do use them, and you
should 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.
