General and Semiconductor Job Sites
You have probably noticed
if you have been looking for a semiconductor job that you have a
few options in the area of job boards and technical job sites, but do
you really? You have most likely figured out that many semiconductor and
general job sites leave a little to be desired. Most job sites seem to have been created for
reasons other than helping you find a job, like pushing education
literature down your throat.
Think of a
semiconductor job search like trying to find something to eat and
job sites are restaurants. Sure, you can pick out your current
favorite 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 semiconductor job sites, general job sites,
technical niche sites, and
semiconductor employers in one place. You might
say it is a menu that includes items from all of the leading restaurants.
That is what
this semiconductor job site offers. We do offer semiconductor employers the ability to post, market, and
feature their semiconductor Jobs and company career site directly on a niche semiconductor job site,
but we also offer the Internet's premier job search engine. It indexes nearly every
semiconductor job from all major job sites, niche semiconductor sites, orgs, and semiconductor employer's job pages.
This semiconductor job site offers real value and is exactly how you
should manage an efficient semiconductor job search. Semiconductor job
searching is not necessarily enjoyable, so if you are going to
invest your job search time wisely, utilize a job
site that presents relevant industry information and allows you to sort through jobs from multiple sources.
Posting Semiconductor Jobs
Overpaying for
individual semiconductor 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 semiconductor jobs and company
career site can receive inexpensively with targeted semiconductor niche
sites and proper search engine optimization and marketing techniques is immense.
A
strong corporate or agency technical recruiter knows that expensive
job postings on general job sites, that quickly get buried within other
jobs, is not how you successfully fill semiconductor 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 semiconductor job seekers. If you have money to
invest on recruiting, find some alternative marketing avenues, such as
building a long-term brand on niche semiconductor career and job sites,
and consider utilizing pay-per-click advertising such as with
Google AdWords. 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.
Avoid the quick fix method to attract the top semiconductor job
seekers. Look outside of the large general job sites if you want
to develop a high quality semiconductor recruiting campaign that attracts
the top technical and engineering candidates year after year.
Semiconductor Resume Posting
Posting your semiconductor resume
seems easy and harmless enough, but is posting your semiconductor
resume worth the effort? Maybe, but you need to consider a few things.
When managing an semiconductor job search, do not relying 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 semiconductor employers directly.
The major problem with
semiconductor resume databases is that relatively few semiconductor employers
and companies pay the high cost to search technical resume databases.
Some large companies do, but keep in mind, there are thousands of semiconductor employers
in the United States. It is the case that the majority of employers in America are considered
small companies. They are rarely spending thousands of dollars on a
technical resume databases in order to fill a few Jobs.
If you are going to post
your semiconductor resume, do so with more than just one or two job sites
as this will rarely produce a new semiconductor job. Everyone knows about
Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder, but there other places to post your
semiconductor resume as well, and we are not referring to the thousands of obscure
technical and general job sites you should avoid.
The top 10 job sites for posting your semiconductor resume, which may actually
have employers utilizing them, comprise nearly 100% of all resume database paying employers. As a rule of
thumb, if you have not heard of a general or technical 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.
Top 10 Semiconductor Job Search Advice
1. Utilize an semiconductor job search site that indexes
semiconductor 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 a technical, engineering, 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
a semiconductor job. Apply directly to semiconductor employers only.
4. Use a targeted niche semiconductor job site for job searching as
they provide more relevant job ads, information, employers, and resources.
5. Do not sign up for a job site, technical job sites included, in order to see
job search results. Never give anyone your address or personal details.
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 chip 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 thousands of semiconductor 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 semiconductor recruiters
if your semiconductor skills, experience, and work history are exceptional.
10. Do not rely on posting your resume to general job sites or
technical job sites. Employers do use them, and you
should use 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.
