Why you'll never get 'that' flexible job on a job board

From the title you may suspect that I've shot myself in the foot here. Yes hmp has a job board but not the type I'm talking about.

I was reading Seth Godin's blog post  Career fairs... and how they are the last resort for companies and job-seekers alike, and I realised that the giant job boards on the internet are just the same. A company needs to fill some drone position so they get HR to just throw up a description and chuck $400 at monster.com or careerbuilder.com. They don't have to put any effort in, as long as you can string a sentence together you'll do. Hell, all these big job boards even share the same database - stick the job on one it goes to the many.

If a company has a real 'career' opportunity it goes specific. It goes to job boards that specialize in certain skills or industries - that's where you get 'that' job. Better still companies are now finding employees on social sites such as facebook and LinkedIn, where they can find the person they need through relationships and referrals.

If you want to be truly happy in a job you're going to have to find it where they put the jobs you want - not where they put the jobs they want you to fill. (I made a tongue-twister)

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