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By Meg Guiseppi

Executive Job Search – Networking Works Best, But Try Niche Job Boards Too

 

I think we all know that networking is by far the best way to land your next job. Jason Alba made a critical point on his Jibber Jobber Blog a few days ago:

“If only 3% of jobs are found from job boards, why do you spend more than 3% of your time on job boards”?

In his own job search, Jason spent 90% of the time, 60 hours a week, on job boards – what he calls “a very unbalanced job search strategy”.

Although most of your time should be spent on networking, he suggests concentrating limited efforts in posting to job boards, focusing on niche boards, instead of the “monsters”.

Check out his list of the top 30 niche job boards, contributed by Eric Shannon and based on data from Google, covering a wide range of industries.

Filed Under: Executive Job Search, Networking Tagged With: Entrepreneurial Blogging Scene, executive job search, Networking

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  1. MGuiseppi says

    July 11, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Rachel,

    Thanks for adding these important sites.

    Meg

  2. Rachel Myers says

    July 10, 2008 at 9:53 am

    I have found lots of high paying jobs on employment sites –

    http://www.realmatch.com
    http://www.indeed.com
    http://www.simplyhired.com

    There are $100 and $200K jobs here

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