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Nursing Jobs: How To Find Your Next Nursing Jobs
By Sid | March 4, 2008
Finding a new nursing job can be hard because you never know if you are finding the best nursing jobs that out there at the time you are looking. Many nurses will use job boards like Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder, but are the free services available really worth time and energy?
All major job boards make it very easy to stay on their sites for long period of time applying to open nursing jobs
Most nurses will find it somewhat surprising and then most likely disappointing to learn that major job boards offer one of the least effective ways to find your next nursing job.
Sure, the big job boards give away many services for free, but they make all their money selling advertising and resume database access to employers. Is it any wonder the major job boards give all the true advantages to the those who pay the bills?
What The Job Boards Don’t Want You to Know
Monster offers up little more than 3% of the available jobs. They pull in a large numbers of Internet visitors, but each of those job seekers is competing for a relatively small number of open jobs.
Of course employers love the big job boards because every advertised job fetches an average of 500 resumes in competitive markets.
Most hiring mangers think it is great to get that many resumes, but at the same time they are overwhelmed. So it should be a surprise to know that your resume will command about 5 to 7 seconds of a hiring mangers time.
This great situation for employers is actually a huge competitive disadvantage to job seekers. You might be competing against 500 other applicants and have your resume viewed for only 7 seconds.
This system may be a great business model for the big job boards, but it certainly isn’t the most effective way to go about hiring new employees. Several state employment center studies show that only 5% of all jobs are found though advertising.
The big job boards actually make more money by limiting the number available openings you can search for. Even if you bounced from Monster to CareerBuilder to HotJobs, you’d find less than 10% of the advertised jobs on the Internet, and you’d spend a lot of time hopping from site to site.
Savvy job seekers know there is a role the big job boards play when looking for their next nursing job, but they also know not to waste time searching a tiny pool of available jobs.
Looking for work is a full time jobs, and you don’t want to put your time and effort into activities that don’t pay off. Answering every open job ad is one the least effective ways to find work.
Meta Job Search Engine
Don’t confuse Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder with job search engines. They are job boards, publishing only the jobs that employers pay to publish. You will find a tiny percentage of the advertised jobs on those boards.
My-Nursing-Career is the place to find 99% of all advertised nursing jobs by using a specialized meta search engine specializing in nursing jobs. For broader searches, the two leading meta job searching engines are SimplyHired and Indeed.
The more specific your jobs search, the better your results will be. For example searches for travel nursing jobs, nurse practitioner jobs will bring up 99% of advertised nursing jobs in your area.
To find more tips for effective job searching, and what you should really do with the open nursing jobs you find advertised on the Internet, read the second part in my effective job search strategies series.
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