Why job boards are a waste of your time
Posting a resume and replying to ads posted on job boards is a typical job-search strategy. Unfortunately, if you’re looking to start a new career in the pharmaceutical industry, it’s also a tremendous waste of time. Worse, it can put your privacy at risk and make you vulnerable to unscrupulous people who take advantage of the unemployed and desperate. To understand why your efforts aren’t worthwhile, you need to put yourself into the mindset of the employer — and then learn what the boards can do to help move your search forward.
Using sites like Monster, Workopolis, Biospace or Medzilla is free for job-seekers, but employers and recruiters pay a lot for access. When a hiring manager or a recruiter posts an advertisement, or searches for resumes on these sites to fill an open position, they are doing so in a particular frame of mind. In this perspective, the resumes of under-qualified people are simply chaff to be sorted through; an annoyance that delays their effort. When they’ve invested a lot of money in their search, they aren’t looking for someone with the potential to do the job, they’re looking for someone who has already done it, and your resume, no matter how well-written, attractively formatted and indicative of your enthusiasm, simply won’t make the cut if you don’t closely meet the posted qualifications. Read more…
