"Employment Matching" Engines Provide Useless Results
July 05, 2008 by
Ridiculous Job Search Engines!
Take heed, you employment agencies and search engines...A FRIEND IN JOB SEARCH
Times are rough on the job market, and some employers may want blood from a stone for your work. Those of us unlucky enough to still be in job search have it even worse off...
A close friend of mine has recently entered into search mode with the following
- Executive Management experience (10+ years)
- Marketing Procurement (non-agency)
- Public Relations
- Philanthropy & Community Service
(by the way, EMAIL ME if you think you may have a job she'd be interested in)
JOB SEARCH ENGINES
She recently berated her experience with some so-called "job search engines" - web-based resources that lend the promise of making the job search a task of joy instead of a drawn-out ordeal of terror and trauma.
Her own words: Good luck! Yeah, right...
After having had her updated resume reviewed by the best of peers, she loaded her resume and profile information into several of these top job search engines. At the end of the process, she took the option to establish "job agents" that automatically email prospective job matches to her in-box.
HI-TECH AGENTS = LOW-END INTELLIGENCE
While these so called "intelligent job agents" go out there to sniff out prospective jobs for my friend, what they have sent her way show a surprising lack of intelligence.
Here she is - Executive Managementstock - and she gets job results mailed back to her as follows:
- body shop foreman
- body shop technician
- medical duty truck sales
- used truck sales
- emergency equipment
- concierge
- cocktail server
- "entry level"
- restaurant asst manger - Burger King
- car Parts Retail Manager at Pep Boys
- floor technician
- lawn care applicator
- maintenance technician
RIDICULOUS JOB SEARCH ENGINES!
While some of the job openings sent her way were spot-on as prospective openings for her, about 99% of the rest were of the sort we see above. We saved the most ridiculous job title for the last:
- "Lead Marshalling Yard Inspector"
Upon seeing this, she and I turned to each other and burst out laughing.
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- Have job search agents been lowered to nothing more than legalized spam?
- What the heck is a "Lead Marshalling Yard Inspector"?
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