Job Postings Inducing Dismay
Feb. 10th, 2009 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenMuch to many people's surprise, mornings often find me clicking on job postings on Monster and CareerBuilder, and even sometimes going to other job posting sites, LinkedIn, Craig's List, and others. The thing that irritates me the most about job postings is that companies posting the jobs don't realize the outside impact of their verbiage and title choices.
"Project Manager" should not be used as a catch-all phrase to describe what you want for a candidate. If you are looking for a Civil Engineer, Construction Design Specialist, Senior Engineering Architect all of whom have project management experience, THEN SAY THAT.
"Account Manager - non-commissioned" should not include things like Accountants, Sales Manager, Audit Specialist, etc.
One of the biggest issues I have with job posting sites, which allow you to save your searches and turn the saved searches into email alerts is that the search agents don't allow you to save the advanced searches. The advanced searches always allow you to exclude certain words, such as "accountant," "audit," "sales," and "specialist." So, each time I get the email alerts from searches that I have saved, I have to go into the site and "re-search" each time. That wastes my time and might actually cause me to miss an opportunity that would be perfect for me and the interested company. But we'll never know.
"Project Manager" should not be used as a catch-all phrase to describe what you want for a candidate. If you are looking for a Civil Engineer, Construction Design Specialist, Senior Engineering Architect all of whom have project management experience, THEN SAY THAT.
"Account Manager - non-commissioned" should not include things like Accountants, Sales Manager, Audit Specialist, etc.
One of the biggest issues I have with job posting sites, which allow you to save your searches and turn the saved searches into email alerts is that the search agents don't allow you to save the advanced searches. The advanced searches always allow you to exclude certain words, such as "accountant," "audit," "sales," and "specialist." So, each time I get the email alerts from searches that I have saved, I have to go into the site and "re-search" each time. That wastes my time and might actually cause me to miss an opportunity that would be perfect for me and the interested company. But we'll never know.
