Executive Careers

Executive Career Search

Executive Career Search - It's a jungle out there!

The ways that we go about an executive career search have changed. It used to be that you could call a few executive recruiters, send out some resumes and look for executive employment / executive career ads in your Saturday newspaper.

The telephones, voice mail, fax machines, computers, email and the Internet have given us new ways to proactively find an executive career.

All employers, employment agencies and executive recruiters are investing in new state-of-the-art computer systems to increase efficiency in storing and processing job resume information.

Today's human resources department and executive career search agencies are leaner (and often, meaner) then in the 90s. With fewer people hiring, but with an ever-increasing pile of applications something had to give up.

Pretending that it is business as usual when it comes to finding an executive career is futile. You cannot afford to ignore the following:

• Companies are relying increasingly on technology to screen job applicants. Today companies ask to fax in your resume. Many more are now requesting to email your job application. These trends accelerate as resume scanning and electronic applicants screening & tracking become widely used.
• The downsizing of human resources departments, in many corporations, has resulted in a situation whereby many resumes are never seen by human eyes once they enter the electronic systems!
• Hi-tech companies want hi-tech employees. If you plan to work in the computer, engineering or similar field, you will find most positions posted on the Internet. In fact, the technology companies only advertise for employers there. The message is:

If you cannot find us, we do not want you!

Look at the executive career ads in today's newspapers. Did you notice that many companies have included their corporate www address? They want you to look at their Web site before your job interview!

Computer literacy is a requirement! Even junior positions and low-tech companies demand basic computer skills.

There are millions of resumes posted on the Internet. You take a chance that employers or executive recruiters are going to find your resume among these millions.

You have a much better chance if you contact executive recruiters and companies directly, through a job search engine, rather then waiting for them to find you.

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