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Topic of the Month: "But I've Always Used the Newspaper"
The Big Three
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Topic of the Month: But I've Always Used the Newspaper
So let’s say that you’re a hiring authority at a dynamic and ambitious construction company, and you desperately need to secure some new talent as you tackle three or four projects in the coming months. You need an estimator, two project managers, a general superintendent, and … well, fill in the blank of whatever actual needs you face. The market is rushing forward and you are struggling to find the best professionals to keep pace.
On your drive home, you listen to music to try to relax after a draining day spent trying to find those candidates to help move your company forward. Do you listen to a CD, or do you push an old 8-track cassette into an 8-track cassette player and hope for the best?
Settling down to watch the big game after dinner, do you find the remote control and turn on the widescreen and watch the Cowboys-Redskins game in high definition … or do you pull out the old black-and-white tv and fiddle with the rabbit ears until you can make out vague images of players?
Remembering you need a clean shirt for work tomorrow, you discover you need to do some laundry. Are you going to run the washer and then the dryer … or do you think it might be a hoot to walk to the back of your property, scrub your shirt in the creek on a washboard, and then hang the garment to dry overnight in the breeze?
Okay … those are three silly scenarios and three pretty easy questions to answer.
So, here’s another one.
In other words, do you want to post your jobs in the newspaper and take your chances that your competitors are also using only the newspaper to advertise their crucial jobs?
Do you really believe that the smartest, brightest candidates are, in hopes of advancing their careers, using the oldest, slowest-moving method of searching for a job?
Aren’t the types of people you want to attract also the types of people who are technologically savvy and aware of the best and most efficient means of getting important things done?
Don’t you think that the people you want are looking at internet-based, specialized web boards to see what forward-looking companies are hoping to find?
Do you really think that the Super or P.M. or Estimator you need is poring over the tiny print in the want ads of his local paper every night and believing that that’s where the prime opportunities are waiting to be found?
The benefits of posting your pressing needs on ConstructionJobs.com are countless. You can write the ad you want with unlimited words, change them at a moment’s notice, and monitor the responses that are coming in to your advertisement.
Further, your posting is available to be viewed nationwide – we’re not limited like a local paper – and respondents can send their resume and contact you minutes after seeing your advertisement. There are no delays such as waiting overnight for a newspaper to land on a doorstep (and no rain and no neighbor’s dogs stealing your paper).
The Internet becomes more vital and omnipresent as the years pass, while papers dwindle in circulation and verge on obsolescence.
As our name grows in the market, we continue to attract more and more top quality candidates. ConstructionJobs.com offers you the tools to make your recruiting efforts fast and effective and to compete with the companies who are using our site to find those same candidates. We know your market, and we move fast to keep up with its changes.
Use ConstructionJobs.com for your next need, and you won’t go back to the newspaper again … unless you want to read about that ’Skins-Cowboys game.
Che Powell
Sales Associate, Northeast
Client Testimonial
"Thanks for promptly posting my job ad on your website. The response I received was almost immediate. A couple of hours later, I was reviewing resumes of applicants for our position.
I feel this is a great recruiting source
because it is so industry-specific and service-oriented."
Thank YOU! ~ Westwood Contractors, Inc.
The Big Three
Hiring authorities read hundreds and maybe thousands of resumes as part of their efforts to attract the finest professionals to their companies. These hiring authorities all search for one defining trait when evaluating these resumes and trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.
What is it that successful construction companies always remember to look for on a builder’s resume? A phrase we’ve heard before, and from more than one source, is that they are all looking for evidence that a candidate can accomplish these big three things: Make Money, Save Time, and Solve Problems.
When you have a sea of resumes before you and have to wade through it, hoping to find a handful of candidates that emerge from the pack due to their quality of experience and talent, we suggest that you use those three criteria to weigh the candidate’s merit.
If the resume of the candidate does not reveal – clearly and quickly – how he can make you money, save you time, or solve problems for you, he may not be as strong as the candidate who can demonstrate those abilities.
The Sales Associates at ConstructionJobs.com always encourage candidates who post their resumes on our website to reconfigure their profiles to highlight those projects and decisions in their careers that caused them to make money, save time, and solve problems for past and current employers. It is another effort on our part to serve our clients (you!) and, in effect, save you time and solve a problem and, we hope, make you some money.
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Happy Recruiting,
The ConstructionJobs Team
