Friday, 10 January 2014

Net-job-market, poor solutions for Jobseekers

Has the curtain fallen on the internet job market?
It has certainly been disappointing to see so powerful a platform for dissemination of job information become a victim of it’s own lack of imagination.  

The poverty of purpose and focus has been because of an inability to build effective commercial revenue models based on real needs rather than on the Job seeker’s insecurities.
The necessity of effective job content is apparent, but the commercial viability of maintaining such a feeder system is vastly under estimated. With the result, we get enormous duplication of vacancy information as all sites target the same clients and also copy the shortfall of content from each other. Same job content — different window dressings.
For the Job seeker, placement agencies continue to remain a better option. Not only because of the human interface, but mostly because of the simplicity of the process.
Resume Blasters and Career Fairs may be soothing, but one soon discovers that, like the promises of your travel agent, the foot-sores are not mentioned in the itinerary.
The internet job market service providers, in throes of self discovery, need to realize that one’s business plans have to be based not on the largest, but on a digestible piece of the pie.

Copyright © 2014, Lima Sehgal
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