In this Issue:
Topic of the Month: "In with the Good, Out with the Bad"
For Example: Successful Job Postings
ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship: Deadline Approaching!
Article: WEDDLE'S Annual Source of Employment Survey
This Issue's Cartoon!
Topic of the Month: In with the Good, Out with the Bad
We are pleased that our website has become a heavily trafficked intersection where clients post jobs and candidates search for the position that will advance their careers. And while we certainly help our client companies find those top-notch professionals who can complete projects or lead the way forward, we do see postings, on occasion, that fail to attract the right candidates and reward the companies for the time and money they invested on our site.
After surveying some of the account executives around the office, we offer these guidelines that ought to help clients shape their future job postings to raise the odds that candidates will notice and be drawn to them. We will update these lists and add specificity to them as time and future results lead us.
Successful Job Orders …
- Start by enticing the candidate with reasons why they should work for the company
- Attach a generic title to the job posting since positions and titles are not always uniform
- Talk about challenges of the job, career path, opportunities and list details expected of the candidate
- Sell the opportunity
- Are a marketing piece
- Create a good first impression
- Make it easy for professionals to apply, if possible, allow them to just click the apply button at the bottom of your post.
Poor Job Orders …
- Make the company confidential – the good candidates won’t apply
- Go on and on
- Merely copy your company’s HR job description for the post.
Candidates will go to the next one - fast
- Don’t allow candidates to apply on your company’s website. Candidates won’t spend time following a difficult trail: they don’t have the time. Make it easy for them - do not send them to another site where they have to refind the job, re-register, and submit their resume again.
Finally, in the article below entitled "For Example" are reprinted two Job Postings that
garnered a series of strong applicants for the companies which posted them. The postings are specific and complete, offer some sense of the culture of the firm, and one even advises that they prefer applicants who have a sense of humor. These posting might be something of a guide to you the next time you want to attract the right professionals to your company.
For Example: Successful Job Postings
See our examples of successful job postings below:
Example #1
Position Title: Project Manager
Description: At CONSTRUCTION COMPANY XYZ, we strive to make a positive difference in the built environment. Our mission is to provide innovative, responsive design - coupled with cutting-edge technological expertise and exceptional service - to our clients. As an award-winning firm, we strive to maintain the high standard of excellence our clients have come to expect of us and we rely heavily upon - and invest significantly in - the success of our employees. Across our five locations, we promote a collaborative, diverse environment that is at once challenging, stimulating, supportive and fun.
Top Construction provides our employees with ongoing learning opportunities, great benefits and a team-centered environment. We encourage our employees to discover and develop their own particular talents, skills, and interests in order to reach their own full potential. We believe that the key to our success as a company is the personal and professional growth of the men and women who serve our clients every day.
Are you looking to contribute on both strategic and tactical level in an organization and an industry that are both poised for continuous growth? Are you interested in working on cutting edge projects that are making a difference in construction, and you meet the requirements and personality traits outlined below? If so, we’d like to hear from you!
Our Ohio office is currently looking for a highly collaborative Project Manager with extensive experience in institutional and/or university projects. The successful candidate will possess outstanding organizational skills in order to successfully manage project budgets, schedules, staff, consultants and clients. The individual will report to one of the Firm’s Principals. Participation in business development activities is desirable.
Minimum Requirements:
- Degree in construction Management with 10+ years of building experience after gaining professional degree
- Able to build new and maintain existing client relationships
- Proficient with scheduling programs and PM software experience highly desirable Project management skills are key to the position
Personality Traits:
- Detail-oriented, methodical, meticulous, process-oriented; however, open to change and motivated by innovation
- Great collaborator and communicator – excellent verbal and written skills are important.
- Ambitious self-starter with get-it-done attitude who strives for results and performs well under pressure
- Good sense of humor
Example #2
Position Title: Construction Scheduler
Description: We are a progressive, management-owned company offering outstanding benefits and growth opportunities for field craft personnel and supervisors as well as interns, new graduates and seasoned upper management. The company consistently ranks among the leading United States contractors, including inclusion in the Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) TOP 400 Contractors rankings. ABC Construction Co. employees are rewarded for their efforts with competitive pay, excellent benefits, clear opportunities for career growth, and an inclusive and empowering work environment.
ABC Construction Co. is seeking senior level scheduling and cost control engineers, preferably with industrial construction experience.
Scheduling includes work at the estimate level, short-interval and project master scheduling. An excellent working knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM) using available scheduling tools such as Primavera and other computer-based systems is required.
Candidates also should be able to manually produce schedules, if required. Duties of this position also may involve project cost control work, requiring the ability to work with and understand budgets, coding, man-hour performance systems and reports, and other elements of overall project monitoring. Depending upon project size, the individual also may have the opportunity to be involved in various project engineering/coordinating activities.
The successful candidates will be able to relocate on a project-by-project basis. ABC Construction Co. offers an excellent benefits program and competitive salary package. Ongoing training opportunities are available for ABC Construction Co. employees.
ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship: Application Deadline Approaching!
The ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship for Students in Construction is a $1,000 scholarship offered to students from across the country who are attending school (community colleges or 4-year universities) and are simultaneously involved in the construction industry, with a particular emphasis on professionals working in trades. We are excited about this opportunity to encourage young men and women to pursue a career in a proud and important industry.
Students eligible for the scholarship will be enrolled in school for the semester in which they apply for the ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship for Students in Construction. They will be majoring in a course of studies related to construction - construction management or civil engineering, for example - or a course specific to their trade – electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and so forth. If you feel you would be a worthy applicant for this scholarship, or if you know of someone who would benefit from learning about this opportunity, please visit ConstructionJobs.com and find our online application.
ConstructionJobs.com is now accepting applications for the Fall 2008 semester. The application period ends on June 15, 2008, so if you are interested be sure to get your application in right away! Additional information concerning the ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship Program can be found on our website.
Article: WEDDLE's Annual Source of Employment Survey
Each year, WEDDLE's analyzes the data supplied by visitors to its website who answer a questionnaire that explores both their online and real world experience in finding a new or better job. We question job seekers to determine how they found their last job and expect to find their next one. The results of the questionnaire provide what we call our annual Source of Employment Survey. » Read full article
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