Finding a job

After reading Hansen's article it gave me a perspective of a recruiter. It had confirmed my suspiction that online recuitring has not gain the momentum that many people expect it to be. Being a Kogod student obtaining a job has always been a great emphasis in the school of business. I have attended many job search workshops. One of the fact that suprises me is that 75% of the jobs are not listed. The article mentioned linkin which I only found out through class last week. I didn't expect to find my collegues from my work on the network. Being that I have never searched for a full time position (I plan on going to graduate school) I really don't know what the networking scene for recruters is like. I have found may part time and summer jobs though. My most sucessful tool is through the temp agency.

Hopefully one day finding a job online wouldn't be too difficult. It takes about an average of 6 months to find a position. I even tried to one find work at P&G and they require a 40 mintues evaluation. It seems like the new trend is to screen people out with behavoral questions prior to even looking at the resume. This I find to be a very bad idea because the all the answer to the questions are multiple choice. Therefore, after 20 mintues or so it gets a little boring. A company can lose some very key talent if they do this. I know they lost me, because applying took forever. Hence my advice is to find someone who works there first and see if there is a better way to apply. Through social networking if possible.