While different job search methods work for different individuals, there are some methods that present higher success than others. The unfortunate fact is that many job hunters are likely to spend an excessive amount of time/effort on the least productive ways. Below is a listing of the least productive methods to search for a job. These percentages indicate the number of people out of every 100, who find a job utilising solely that method.
1) Internet job postings: 4 to 10%
2) Mailing out resumes to companies: 7%
3) Answering adverts in professional/trade journals: 7%
4) Local newspaper ads: 5-24%
5) Head-hunters, employment agencies, search companies: 5-28%
As you can see, many of the methods people generally use, do not produce the best results. Using a combination of approaches would obviously improve the success rate; however, the increase wouldn't be very substantial, if not approached in the right way. Due to this fact, you will need to realise that your time spent searching for employment opportunities through less productive methods ought to be limited and effective.
For job boards specifically, while they will not be an ideal way to look for a job and mostly have a low success rate, they might still be useful. You never know through| what source you would possibly land a job and so it is sensible to use all the job search strategies available. Job boards are additionally helpful sources of information for clues about which companies are hiring and what they are looking for. When utilising job boards the principle thing to bear in mind is that it is a numbers game and a question of submitting sufficient targeted job applications, so that you hear back from a few. That said, you should not spend an excessive amount of time on them, since as we have seen, they are not the most productive way to search for a job.
Here are a number of the main job sites in Singapore:
JobsDB
JobsCentral
Monster
JobStreet
EFinancialCareers
JobCyclone
Best Jobs
ST701
StreetDirectory
TopFinancialJobs
You can also use job aggregators like Recruit.Net and Careerjet, which provide jobs from a couple of job boards and in addition from firm job pages. This could save you quite a lot of time, as opposed to going through numerous job boards individually.
Author Resource:
Amit Puri has more than ten years of career advisory & business management expertise. He heads Sandbox Advisors a career, job search, recruitment & HR consulting firm in Singapore.Visit their site - Career & Job Search Insights for Singapore , for research, ideas and videos, on cover letter templates, job interview answers, job opportunities, career change & more.
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