When trying a to pick a topic about what to blog about, while I was job hunting online and talking about job hunting with so many of my friends, it hit me like a ton of bricks...I have become addicted to job hunting online. It's not because I want to be, but it's what career seekers have to do when they wan to make a move. It's not fun. It seems as though you are sending out your resume to the abyss, never to be heard from again. It's like a one way street. All of my emails and efforts go out and nothing ever comes back in. Do employers really look at the resumes that come in? Everyone knows that you shouldn't leave a job until you have a new one, so when else would you look for jobs online?
Read one blogger's tale of job hunting addiction.
An article from USA Today from 2003 (written 5 years ago, but still very relevant) shows that people are wasting hours looking online for jobs. It also explains, "the Internet is prolonging the hiring process for the employer. In a survey of 5,000 recruiters and hiring managers by an online resume site, 92% said they were inundated with irrelevant responses. Seventy-one percent said that a majority of the resumes they received in response to an online job posting did not match the position's description."
So much for technology making the job hunting process easier. What is a person to do. My mom said that about 80% of career focused jobs are gotten through a connection of some sort. That's a really scary statistic. This form of technology addiction will hopefully subside once I or whoever is looking gets a job. OK, I need to get back to job hunting...
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