How to Find Out Who's Hiring Right Now

Want to know who's hiring right now? Job boards and newspapers are not very reliable the are kind of hit and miss. Going to employment services or recruiters is putting your search in someone else's hands and that means you lose control. So what's the answer? The answer is to have good reliable information that is not hit or miss and being in control of what is going on. With that type of plan you can easily determine who's actually hiring vs. who's just advertising or putting out feelers. The question is How?

Problems with Job Boards

Job boards are a good source of leads for who may be hiring. The operative word is 'may'. At some point someone thought enough to pay for an ad at a job board and place that ad on line. The problem is you don't know the urgency or the timing or the ad. If the company is just 'shopping' for sales people or collecting resumes then there is no urgency to hire.

The second problem is that there are lots of job board that aggregate postings and re-post jobs. Once those jobs are posted at the source they can often be taken down. This sometimes is not the case for the replicated posts. These live out in cyberspace for longer periods of time. Sadly the original person who posted may have filled the position already by the time you find the ad. In this case there is no urgency whatsoever to post fill the position. This means that looking at job boards should only be a small part of your search.

Problems with Recruiters and Employment Agencies

In this case you have outsourced you job search. There are a number of benefits to using these services but they are not paid to find you a job. They are paid by companies to find people. If you are not a perfect fit in terms of both skill, work history and sometimes just being familiar with your personality and knowing the culture of the company, you may not even get considered. Sure that recruiter have some sense of who's hiring right now but it is limited to their specialty.

While this does not sound fair, it is probably best for all parties. If you get past a recruiter who has a good relationship with the hiring manager, they are giving their endorsement of you and your fit for the company. When that recruiter has the right relationship, it is a big help to you, it is kind of a halo effect. The problem for you is that that recruiter won't probably submit you to something you don't fit into even if you think you do. While they may be right, the problem is you have lost control over the opportunity. This means recruiters should also only be a small part of your search.

The solution?

The way to solve both of these problems of reliable information and control over your search is to network for yourself. If you are the one talking to companies and people in companies, they will tell you if they are really hiring or not. You know right then if you should spend time and effort on trying to get yourself in front of the right person to make a hiring decision.

The obvious question is how to do this. The answers are on the Internet in the form of professional networking sites like LinkedIn. There is training available on how to use these sites. If you want a bigger picture on the job search networking concept, you can go to free job search websites where they have training on how to network for a job along with tons of career resources. You can find books at the library and local meetings where speakers talk on the subject of networking. The information is out there to be found so whichever route you take, if you want have the most reliable information and to be in total control of your search, use job search networking to find out who's hiring right now!


Trained as an electrical engineer, Tom now applies the process and analysis skills to attracting and hiring top employees for his clients. During these tough times, many of the candidates who have worked with us in the past and been successfully placed are looking again. We have no way to place them but as a way of saying thanks and giving back we have put up the career center portal linked above as well as published a series of articles for job seekers to help them during these tough times.
By Tom Tassinari :ezinearticles.com