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Topic of the Month: "Tools of the Trade"
Hot Searches
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Topic of the Month: Tools of the Trade
The construction industry is constantly evolving as it embraces new, forward-thinking building materials, tools, and techniques. To keep pace, estimators need to revise their time, resource, and cost equations to ensure your company remains competitive and profitable. Similarly, those responsible for keeping your company adequately staffed need to revise their practices as better recruiting tools become available.
One of the biggest staffing challenges occurs as current projects are completed and future projects are starting, especially if your company is growing. It’s important to minimize the downtime of existing project teams and have additional qualified staff available to handle growth projects. ConstructionJobs.com offers you industry-specific state-of-the-art tools to address these challenges.
ConstructionJobs.com’s job board is more effective than its general, mainstream counterparts because of its focus. When they post their jobs on generalized and bigger boards, hiring authorities at companies like yours cede control of who it is that applies for their jobs. Unqualified job seekers may apply because it’s a quick and simple process to do so.
However, if a job seeker applies to your Project Manager posting on ConstructionJobs.com, there’s a high probability they have construction industry experience. And even if you don’t hire them as a PM or for the immediate need that prompted your posting in the first place, they may be a good candidate for other opportunities with your company.
So when do you post your jobs? If you post them before the projects have been awarded, you have to “stall” the applicants. If you wait until you win the projects, it may be too late. What about seasonal fluctuations in your company’s staffing requirements (for example, don’t you always hear yourself say, “we always need Project Managers and Superintendents in the Spring”)?
ConstructionJobs.com’s most powerful and unique offering is our resume database of over 40,000 qualified candidates. It allows you to control your recruiting process and timing. You decide who’s qualified for your opportunities and when to start your outreach. It addresses the dilemma of when to post your job. You can search resumes and fill your pipeline with qualified prospects while you’re pursuing your projects and in anticipation of your hiring season. Then, when you’re ready, start your outreach and post your jobs.
The effectiveness of a resume database greatly depends on the ability to efficiently search its content. ConstructionJobs.com offers a search engine designed specifically for the construction, design/build, and engineering industries. In addition to geographic preference, keywords, and phrases, we offer many fields (e.g. Position, Category, Subcontractor Type, Industry, Project Experience, Skills, Education, Certifications) so you can easily find candidates with the experience and qualifications for which you’re looking.
Ironically, one of ConstructionJobs.com’s biggest assets creates one of our biggest challenges. Since most companies base their recruiting practices on traditional tools and their perception that the Internet is just a place to post jobs, our customers don’t always optimize their use of our resume database. How do we convince them to revise their recruiting practices to take advantage of such a powerful and effective tool? A reminder like this article is, we hope, a good start.
Ed Hazarabedian
Regional Account Executive, Pacific Northwest
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Hot Searches
This weekend I had a few minutes to scan the Internet, looking for some news about my beloved and still unbeaten Kansas Jayhawks basketball team and other random things. One website proclaimed that its hot searches were for “American Idol,” “Sub-Prime Mortgage Crunch,” “John McCain,” “Cloverfield,” and something called “Brangelina.” A pleasant hour passed as I read speculation as to how the Giants could knock off the Patriots and which movies and actors might take home the big Oscars.
I even took a minute to visit a website that’s dear to my heart, ConstructionJobs.com., a company where I am the Sales Manager.
We here at ConstructionJobs.com know that a construction company doesn’t use our website for the same reason you visit other sites. You don’t expect ConstructionJobs.com to tell you how to win hands of Texas Hold ‘Em or who’s gonna come out ahead on Super Tuesday.
But what we do is place your most urgent needs before an ever-growing roster of strong and experienced construction professionals from across the country who rely on ConstructionJobs.com as the source of great career opportunities.
Sure, the internet has “hot searches” and millions of fun diversions to look at. But we know that when you use ConstructionJobs.com, you are expecting results. Looking for the best Project Managers and Estimators and Superintendents in the construction industry that will strengthen your company and help you make more money and meet your deadlines is serious work, and we take our role in that seriously, too.
We will continue to expand the job listings that we offer you and remain your best, most accessible source for the searches that matter most.
Since 2000, ConstructionJobs.com has been the most recognized employment resource for construction and engineering professionals online. No matter what size of company, we are committed to serving our customers so they receive the most out of their subscription. For assistance with your account
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Happy Recruiting,
The ConstructionJobs Team
