I did a survey of a bunch of engineering job sites and came up with around 12,000 engineering jobs posted every month. That includes every discipline in the USA and Canada, but not Mexico. So how do you make sense of it, and how can we help raise your profile if you are a job seeker?
On of the first business models to work on the Internet was job boards. Monster, Dice, our sponsors at CareerBuilder, and many more have built large and successful companies by connecting job seekers to a better future. Now the tables are turning, and free job boards like Craigslist and (we’d like to think) ENGINEERING.com are changing the game. The technology is now readily available and easy to implement, so the cost of providing the service has gone down to a point where free makes sense.
So what can ENGINEERING.com offer for job seekers? How about an increased profile? Would you prefer a scenario where employers look for you rather than the other way around? To make that work, engineers could post their profiles so that employers who visit our site can find them more easily. We already do a bit of job seeker promotion by publishing some excerpts in our monthly Career Communique, but that’s only whetted the employer’s appetite for more information. In fact, many have called us looking to buy access to our database of resumes, but we’ve declined.
We’re thinking that a better way to enable engineers to publish their profiles is to allow them to create an online resume [anonymous if they want]. We would then feature all jobs seekers in a public section where employers can ask for more information from certain candidates whose background fits positions that they are looking to fill.
Would you be interested in a service like that? Let me know by responding below or through an email to jhayes@engineering.com.
Thx
John
