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What's a career website then? By Scott Boyd Career websites are agencies which, as the name suggests, are based primarily or entirely online.
They usually offer some from of information and advice (much like this site, but please note - we are not a recruitment agency!), but focus on storing candidates (that's you, the jobseeker) CV's online so employers can search through them.
Well, that sounds like a great idea. Doesn't it mean that my CV can be viewed by any employer in the world? In theory, yes. But in practice, employers usually have to pay the career website for access to its database of CV's. So, firstly the employers are limited to those can afford to pay the fee to the career website.
Secondly, whereas before you were competing within dozens, maybe hundreds of applicants for a job in your local area, you are now competing with thousands on a national and international scale!
Thirdly, there are no interviews involved until an employer gets to see your CV and invites you to attend an interview. This means the decision to interview you is based solely on a generic CV template designed by the career website - which means that you have to convey everything that you can offer in a few paragraphs of text (a near impossible thing to do!).
So, what? We should just ignore career websites then? Not at all. Like every form of job hunting, career websites can be useful to some people. They should complement your search for a job and not be the sole method by which you hope to get work.
For example, I have been registered with a major career website for several years, and have only been offered one job in that time (and I wasn't even qualified for that!). This is the case for most people on that particular career website (and, I presume all web based recruitment sites in general!). There were, however people who had gained several jobs from the site.
On the whole, if you have unique skills and are prepared to relocate, you may see a greater benefit from web based recruitment agencies as your CV is more likely to be viewed.
If however, you are in a highly competitive market, you should look for work in every way possible to increase your chances of finding something!
So, what can we hope to get from this site? Information. Advice. The voice of experience. Ideas. We hope that you will be able to take something from this site, and if not you'll contact us and let us know what's missing.
Our discussion forum is a good place to start if you can't find what you are looking for. There will be someone in there that will be able to help you out and at the very least I'll be there fairly regularly - worst comes to the worst and I'll run off and find what you need (I'm pretty good at that!).
We are a career website in that we offer career advice to jobseekers. Unlike all the others though, we focus on the jobseeker and not the employer. That's why we can help!
Best of luck in the hunt for the ideal job!
Regards Scott Boyd - Webmaster and Founder - Jobseekers Advice
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