Current Events > Job hunting truly is a mess, CareerBuilder / ZipRecruiter are out of control.

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I applied to one job on CareerBuilder and was directed to a new page with similar job postings, and there was a button that read "click this to quickly apply to 50 job postings!"

Are you serious? I click this one button and spam 50 mother fuckers? 80% of which have nothing to do with the job I just applied to, just share a keyword or two?

ZipRecruiter is the same, you can quickly spam your resume to hundreds of positions.

I am pretty sure these guys are actively trying to drown out meaningful applicants just to say "see? See how complicated the process is? You have 1,306 applicants for your engineering position, use our resource to cut down on this mess and streamline the hiring process," they are exacerbating the problem to make their solution appear useful.

Maybe I'm just cynical and getting tired of this job search.

Recruiting sites are just there to take your money. If you have functional job skills look for actual Headhunters.
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Nah for once I agree with you. Those sites are a dumpster fire. Are you looking for smaller companies to apply it? You may leave a little money on the table but you dont have to deal with corporate culture, youll be challenged far more, and youll actually feel like your work has meaning. I worked at a Fortune 500 after graduating. Fuck that authoritarian dog shit.
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s0nicfan posted...

Recruiting sites are just there to take your money. If you have functional job skills look for actual Headhunters.

I've found that headhunters routinely fuck up.

I've met with them in person before, they act like I'm such a great candidate and they'll present positions for me, then they just ghost my ass. It's incredibly frustrating.

HydraSlayer82 posted...

Nah for once I agree with you. Those sites are a dumpster fire. Are you looking for smaller companies to apply it? You may leave a little money on the table but you dont have to deal with corporate culture, youll be challenged far more, and youll actually feel like your work has meaning. I worked at a Fortune 500 after graduating. Fuck that authoritarian dog shit.

Funny, I've only worked at smaller companies and I'm sick of all their shit. Mostly dealing with cliques and fragile egos, and their organizational methodology and practices usually suck.

In all three jobs I've requested shit like dual monitors, better workstation cards, better software, and it's been an uphill battle because it's literally money coming out of the owner's pocket instead of some budget from a department. It's like bitch I'm an engineer, this shit will literally make me more productive and get you more money, get your head out of your ass you cheap fuck.

clearaflagrantj posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Recruiting sites are just there to take your money. If you have functional job skills look for actual Headhunters.

I've found that headhunters routinely fuck up.

I've met with them in person before, they act like I'm such a great candidate and they'll present positions for me, then they just ghost my ass. It's incredibly frustrating.

HydraSlayer82 posted...

Nah for once I agree with you. Those sites are a dumpster fire. Are you looking for smaller companies to apply it? You may leave a little money on the table but you dont have to deal with corporate culture, youll be challenged far more, and youll actually feel like your work has meaning. I worked at a Fortune 500 after graduating. Fuck that authoritarian dog shit.

Funny, I've only worked at smaller companies and I'm sick of all their shit. Mostly dealing with cliques and fragile egos, and their organizational methodology and practices usually suck.

In all three jobs I've requested shit like dual monitors, better workstation cards, better software, and it's been an uphill battle because it's literally money coming out of the owner's pocket instead of some budget from a department. It's like bitch I'm an engineer, this shit will literally make me more productive and get you more money, get your head out of your ass you cheap fuck.

Thats fucking terrible. At the small company I work at Ive pretty much got everything Ive ever requested and then some. Cheap owners are the worst. If you put quality in you get quality out.
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monster.com is worthless
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They keep spamming ZipRecruiter commercials on TV here so I finally checked it the other day and it's truly fucking terrible.
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Have you tried LinkedIn? I found my latest job there.

I almost always get called for an interview when I use indeed.com. That site seems pretty legit to me.

Ic3Bullet posted...

I almost always get called for an interview when I use indeed.com. That site seems pretty legit to me.

Indeed is fine but the number of 30+ day-old job postings floating around on it is insane.
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Behaviorism posted...

monster.com is worthless

Oh man Monster is truly the worst of them all.

Literally every time I get contacted by someone through Monster it's some outsourced headhunter from India trying to get me for some random bullshit job, or some insurance salesman trying to get me to join his crap, I don't touch that shitty website.

Cleo_II posted...

Have you tried LinkedIn? I found my latest job there.

Honestly I have not, I probably should.

Though my profile kinda sucks. I don't even have a picture.

use linked in
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Indeed is alright. Haven't used careerbuilder or ziprecruiter or monster or whatever else. I kinda lucked out with indeed getting my first real job through there. If you can sift through all the garbage, you'll find some decent jobs.

But these websites are still no substitute for going directly through the company's websight or through a direct headhunter or something like that. The above websights are okay for first-time jobs, but that's it (which is arguably the hardest job to get out of college, given the trend of "entry-level" jobs needing "2-3 years experience")
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clearaflagrantj posted...

Behaviorism posted...

monster.com is worthless

Oh man Monster is truly the worst of them all.

Literally every time I get contacted by someone through Monster it's some outsourced headhunter from India trying to get me for some random bullshit job, or some insurance salesman trying to get me to join his crap, I don't touch that shitty website.

Cleo_II posted...

Have you tried LinkedIn? I found my latest job there.

Honestly I have not, I probably should.

Though my profile kinda sucks. I don't even have a picture.

Thats fine. They have job postings and you can upload resumes to them.