General and Sales Job Sites
You have probably noticed
if you have been looking for a sales job that you have a few options in the area of job boards and sales job sites, but do
you really? You have most likely figured out that many sales and
general job sites leave a little to be desired. Most sales job
sites have been created for one purpose, which you have undoubtedly
figured out on your own.
Think of a
sales job search like trying to find something to eat and
job sites are restaurants. Sure, you can pick out your current
favorite sales job search site such as Monster, CareerBuilder,
HotJobs, and others. What if
instead of always going to your favorite place you go to a gourmet job
site food court that has all of the best choices and many options,
meaning all of the top sales job sites, general job sites,
and actual sales employers in one place. You might
say it is a menu that includes items from all of the top sales
and business development restaurants.
That is what
this sales job and career site offers. We do offer sales employers the ability to post, market, and feature their
sales jobs and career pages directly on a niche sales job site,
but we also offer the Internet's premier job search engine, that indexes nearly every
sales job from all major job sites, niche sales sites,
sales associations, and
sales employer's job pages.
This sales job site offers real value and is exactly how you should manage an efficient sales job
search. Sales job searching is not necessarily enjoyable, so if you are going to
invest your job search time wisely, utilize a sales job site that
indexes jobs from multiple sites throughout the Internet.
Posting Sales Jobs
Overpaying for
individual sales job postings on general job boards is something you
do if you are not well versed in all of your job posting options. The
massive exposure your company's sales jobs and company career site can
receive inexpensively with targeted sales niche sites and proper search
engine optimization and marketing techniques is immense.
A
strong corporate or agency sales recruiter knows that expensive job
postings on general job sites, that quickly get buried within other
jobs, is not how you successfully fill sales jobs. A key to success with
job postings, and a good return on your recruiting investment, is to
make sure your sales job postings will be seen on niche recruitment
sites, which often attract passive job seekers, and to make sure your
jobs are distributed to multiple large and small career sites and blogs
throughout the Internet.
Job
postings only attract some of the potential sales job seekers. If
you have money to invest on recruiting, find some alternative marketing avenues, such as building a long-term brand on sales niche job sites,
sales orgs, and consider utilizing pay-per-click advertising. An
important method that marketing departments have been using for years is
to advertise a company logo on relevant sites. The only proven and
effective way to build a long-term brand is to have people consistently
see your company's logo and tagline.
Avoid the quick fix method to attract the top sales job seekers.
Look outside of the large general job sites if you want to develop a
high quality sales recruiting campaign that attracts the top sales
candidates year after year.
Sales Resume Posting
Posting your sales
resume seems easy and harmless enough, but is posting your sales
resume worth the effort? Maybe, but probably not. If I am managing a
sales job search, I am not relying on others to sort through a
sales resume database to find my sales resume. I prefer to be proactive and research, approach,
and apply to sales jobs and
sales employers directly.
The major problem
with sales resume databases is that relatively few sales employers and
companies pay the exorbitant charges to search sales resumes. Remember,
there are millions of sales employers. Every company must sell their
product or service. It is the case that the majority of sales employers in America, are considered
small or medium size companies. They are rarely spending thousands of dollars on a
sales resume database in order to fill a few sales jobs.
If you are going to post
your sales resume,
do so with more than just one or two job sites as this will rarely
produce a new sales job. Everyone knows about Monster, HotJobs, and
CareerBuilder, but there other places to post your sales resume as well,
and we are not referring to the thousands of obscure job sites you should avoid.
The top 10 job sites for posting your sales resume, which may actually
have sales employers utilizing them, comprise nearly 100% of all resume database paying
sales employers.
As a rule of thumb, if you have not heard of a particular general or
sales job site, do not waste your time posting your
sales resume to it. It is imperative that you stick to
large job boards such as
Monster,
HotJobs, and
CareerBuilder if
you are impelled to post your sales resume.
Top 10 Sales Job Search Advice
1. Utilize a sales job search site that indexes sales job
postings from all major job sites and sales employer's sites. Do not waste your time searching
individual job sites. You will not miss a sales job
posting by not searching multiple job and career sites.
2. Never pay to belong to a sales, specialty, or general job site no matter how tempting they make it sound.
3. Do not sign up for a job board in order to apply for a sales job. Apply directly to sales employers only.
4. Use targeted niche sales sites for sales job searching as
they provide more relevant sales job ads and sales employers.
3. Do not sign up for a job site, sales job sites included, in order to see
job search results. Never give anyone your address.
5. Get off of job boards some of the time and utilize other methods for
locating sales job openings. Like a good salesperson would
do, diversify your new sales job prospecting approach and methods. One of them will
come through, but you must diversify.
6. Job search and apply for sales jobs for more than a couple of hours per day.
Keep digging for sales and selling jobs.
7. Locate and research sales employers outside of job boards. There
are millions of sales employers and sales jobs.
Find relevant sales employers to market your services to.
8. Only utilize and invest time searching for jobs through sales recruiters if your situation
is conducive to a successful outcome.
9. Do not rely on posting your
sales resume to general
job sites or sales job sites. Sales employers do use them, but it is
a relatively small number who pay for these recruiting services.
10. Prepare and improve in all areas of the sales job search
life cycle. Prospect, Approach, Present, Close, and Follow-up.
