Some of the job sites that we assume are freee because they are free to us are not free to the employer or recruiter. Those proprietary sites are protected/encrypted so they can make some money.
Some Recruiters, and companies who don’t want to pay recruiters, use search engines to crawl the web. They find most of their good IT prospects in the many IT related chat rooms. But in addition, the IT techies are in those IT related chat rooms. They see your chats, profile, etc and contact you directly. It is a great way to get past HR. One of the big problems in big companies is getting past HR. The hiring managers in IT hate HR and do their best to bypass it and hire directly. HR is a slow moving bureaucracy that does not understand the jobs they are trying to fill. the result is that the hiring manager often fills the job outside HR. (HR hates that.)
How many FReepers have their resume posted at
CONSERVATIVEJOBS.COM ? Why or Why not?
I know its been mentioned often in threads about jobs.
I get about 1 email a week that came through that web site requesting I submit a “more recent resume” or an “application” or just asking if I’m “available”.
Some of the email is for jobs totally unrelated to my skills.