{"id":19709,"date":"2011-06-02T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=19709"},"modified":"2011-06-02T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T12:49:02","slug":"linkedin-is-about-to-put-job-boards-and-resumes-out-of-business-schawbel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/06\/02\/linkedin-is-about-to-put-job-boards-and-resumes-out-of-business-schawbel\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn is about to put job boards (and resumes) out of business [Schawbel]"},"content":{"rendered":"

LinkedIn is about to put job boards (and resumes) out of business<\/strong><\/a> — from forbes.com by Dan Schawbel<\/p>\n

Excerpts (emphasis from DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Job boards are becoming more irrelevant to the corporate recruitment process every single year. They are ineffective because of the sheer amount of competition on them and how they\u2019re perceived by recruiters.<\/p>\n

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Just as I said in my book Me 2.0<\/em><\/a>, job boards are black holes. Stop submitting your resume to them <\/span><\/strong>and praying that a machine finds it and delivers it to a hiring manager.<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>You should<\/span> spend more time meeting people at companies you want to work for at networking events and through social networks.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Your traditional Microsoft Word resume is obsolete so create a LinkedIn profile and use their \u201cResume Builder<\/a>\u201d to turn your profile into your new digital resume.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn\u2019s big announcement today<\/strong>
\nLinkedIn just announced that they will be launching a button for employer career sites called \u201cApply With LinkedIn<\/a>,\u201d which will allow candidates to submit their LinkedIn profiles as resumes through their HR management systems. Companies will be able to take the LinkedIn API and integrate the button into their entire database of open jobs.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

What this means for job seekers<\/strong>
\nI see more and more companies using this button on their career sites, while divesting in job board advertising. This is yet another step in the internet becoming the new global talent pool. <\/strong><\/span>HR databases are isolated in the confines of companies and can\u2019t update fast enough to remain relevant in this fast paced world we live in. Now, more than ever before, job seekers have to create their own LinkedIn profiles and take them very seriously.<\/span><\/strong> You have to constantly managing your profile, revise it as you advance in your career, and use it to network as much as possible. Companies will expect you to be on LinkedIn and if you\u2019re not, then you can\u2019t apply for jobs! There are over one hundred million LinkedIn users and you will suffer if you keep submitting your Microsoft Word resume to job boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LinkedIn is about to put job boards (and resumes) out of business — from forbes.com by Dan Schawbel Excerpts (emphasis from DSC): Job boards are becoming more irrelevant to the corporate recruitment process every single year. They are ineffective because of the sheer amount of competition on them and how they\u2019re perceived by recruiters. … […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,269,299],"tags":[659,270,717],"class_list":["post-19709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-professional-development","category-workplace","tag-career-development","tag-professional-development","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19713,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions\/19713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}