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Topic of the Month: Bull Market
I don’t know much about the Stock Market, but I do know that if you get in on the ground floor of a commodity right before it takes off, and buy low, then you can make a lot of money after Amalgamated Widgets or some other hot new product takes off.
Well, I am offering you the chance to get in early with ConstructionJobs.com, which, to extend the stock market analogy a bit more, is a hot commodity in the process of taking off.
I know, you’re skeptical. I spend my days listening to Construction professionals say that job boards are ineffective. I have heard clients and candidates say that job boards are too cluttered, that they can’t match up the qualified professionals with the hiring authority who is interested in that person’s talents and desire.
But remember, just because one stock fails doesn’t mean the market is poor or that there isn’t a much better commodity to invest in. When I press those clients or candidates I speak to about the failures they’ve witnessed on job boards, invariably they confess that the money or time they wasted and the dead ends they encountered were attributable to the giant job-boards that try to be all things to all people.
If you enter the monstrous world of these mega-job boards and list your title as, for example, “project manager,” you are, indeed, one grain of wheat being thrown in with tons of chaff. You are likely to get thrown in with any resume that features the words “project” and “manager”; a restaurant manager and a guy who was a serviceman for a housing project might come up before your name does when a potential new employer is searching for someone to build a hospital or hotel.
In other words, now’s the time to sell on those giant job boards that discriminate so poorly between what you do and the thousands of job seekers whose talents and experience are unrelated to your endeavors. An October 2007 Wall Street Journal article (PDF, 142k) highlighted the stagnation that has struck the biggest job boards; 360i Chief Executive Bryan Weiner speaks for many who are frustrated at the results the big boards give them: “You get a fair amount of response, but not the quality.”
You know your work is of the highest quality, but you don’t know how to make sure it gets recognized by a potential employer.
Emily Steel goes on to write, in her Wall Street Journal article, that as the giant, generic job boards struggle, “the hottest names in online recruitment are increasingly specialized job sites. That poses a threat to the growth prospects of the broad-based online job boards and their newspaper partners.”
We are exactly such a specialized job site.
We are not all things to all people.
We are ConstructionJobs.com.
We specialize in your business, in Construction. That’s all we do. We work to get your name in front of the best companies in the industry.
As I said, I don’t know much about the Stock Market. But I know one rule is that you must diversify your portfolio. Well, to finish with one more analogy, we at ConstructionJobs.com refuse to diversify. Your career is our only stock in trade. All our capital is tied up in your success.
We invest in you, so you will invest in us.
Article by:
Kristen Ripmaster
Regional Account Executive, Southeast
ConstructionJobs.com
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Kristen Ripmaster writes this month about the growing relevance and usefulness of specialty web boards such as ConstructionJobs.com. And that is not without merit: Kristen knows her stuff and works hard to advance our name and efforts to serve professionals like you and the Construction industry.
Further, she draws a legitimate series of differences between the huge web boards and our niche board that serves only your industry.
But beyond what an employee of ConstructionJobs.com has to say, here are four testimonials from industry leaders and executives, men and women who turned to ConstructionJobs.com when they had important positions to fill at their companies, positions that can advance the career of a builder like you. These four have all used the services we offer at ConstructionJobs.com and sent us these statements which declare their satisfaction with how we are were able to address significant and time sensitive needs they faced.
Read these, please, and please consider turning to ConstructionJobs.com the next time you want the right place to create a profile of yourself and register your resume.
“We at Independent have used every means available to attract management candidates.
Not only is the response to the on-line add greater,
our quality of respondents is much higher.
We have had success every time we have used this service.”
~ Mike Mulich ~ Independent Construction Co
“It has been a pleasure to work with ConstructionJobs.com. This service has been outstanding, with the rep anticipating our needs and providing true value-added support. I can honestly say that they have been easier and more worthwhile to work with than any other online recruiting site we’ve used.”
~ Kathleen Killoren ~ JFK Construction
"I am extremely pleased with ConstructionJobs.com!!! I have one person starting [work now] and two others that we are looking to interview. The website is great and easy to maneuver. I was able to search other resumes and found quite a few good ones. I am definitely happy with this site and will use it again if we have other openings. This site is definitely geared towards our industry! Thank you."
~ Karla H. Lascell ~ Crane Inspection & Certification Bureau Orlando, FL
"I wanted to let you know that we have gotten very good resumes for your data base and when the time comes I am going to recommend to management that we continue using you."
~ Corporate Recruiter ~ Cornerstone Group Coral Gables, FL
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Happy Searching,
The ConstructionJobs Team
