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Jobs filled without being advertised
Posted by
Joe Grimm
11/12/2009 7:07:20 AM
Thanks, Alex, for the comment.
I was often in the position of having candidates ready for jobs at the Free Press even before we had...
Thanks, Alex, for the comment.
I was often in the position of having candidates ready for jobs at the Free Press even before we had the openings for them. They were people I met recruiting, people who were runners up in previous searched and phenomenal people who had applied when we did have anything. We just held onto the resumes for the right time.
These days, with so many people applying for so few openings, there might be a lot of news managers with the next hire's resume already on the desk. Of course, if they are too buried to look at resumes for openings they can only wish for, that might not be the case.
Sometimes, even when I knew we had plenty of good candidates for a position, I would advertise just to see who else was out there and freshen up our pipeline.
Once, I advertised an opening for someone to cover University of Michigan football, and the ad said the job would include two trips to Hawaii (football and basketball) in its first year. We were slammed with applications. We wound up hiring a guy we had already known about -- he's very good -- but it helped us learn about some other good people -- and it reminded folks that we were hiring.
Color me phenomenal, then!
Posted by
Kentler Murphy
11/10/2009 12:38:07 PM
I did the very thing we're talking about. I applied for a position at a paper that hadn't advertised any openings. Lo and behold, the...
I did the very thing we're talking about. I applied for a position at a paper that hadn't advertised any openings. Lo and behold, the editor called me before I had a chance to make a follow-up phone call.
Just by happenstance, I was exactly what they needed at the time they needed it. So set your sights on a location and cast your line out there. I took a chance, and it paid off.
Really?
Posted by
Alex Dering
11/10/2009 8:22:39 AM
Some jobs are filled without ever being advertised, so waiting for the ads is not an effective strategy.
Really? Jobs are filled without ads?...
Some jobs are filled without ever being advertised, so waiting for the ads is not an effective strategy.
Really? Jobs are filled without ads? I don't mean that to sound snarky, it's just I think it's a wildly unlikely event, at least for the case the question is raising.
I can readily see that jobs may be filled with no external ads, as in the instances where someone already within the organization (i.e., intern) is far and away a superior person for the position because they already understand the nuances of that particular workplace.
But I've always been told -- and have frequently observed -- that unless the resume being sent is truly, truly phenomenal (meaning "not from someone who just graduated and not from someone who has very standard skills"), it's treated either as a tiresome chore for the person who has to take care of it, or simply round-filed after a glance.
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