Here are a few tidbits of information you can tuck away and savor. In the past 10 years the internet has be used extensively to find employment, some people swear by it, I swear at it. I am a professional in the business of headhunting for companies in the U.S. and maintain a partnership with another company in Germany. When I obtain business I start by doing industry research and begin calling into companies in the states to determine if a person is interested in moving to another company, obtaining their resume and giving them a package that describes the company and the job.This is how headhunting is actually done, but let me explain the business further. There are two types of agencies that do this first there are the placing agencies, that do nothing more than was previously described.......they call companies find out what type of employee they need and then go find one. The other type of agency is the supplier agency, these people are in the business of supplying people that have a background to the placing agencies. The placing agencies, after conducting a search and coming up without a proper candidate then sends a message to the suppliers that they have needs for certain individuals, then the suppliers go through their databases and then send qualified people. So Placers work with companies, Suppliers work with people looking for a new job.

Now lets add the internet into the mix and see what the person looking for work has to face. First if you sum up and review all the job boards on the internet you will find that beneath all the promise of work, 70% of the jobs on the internet are not real. Most of them that are placed on the public job boards i.e. Monster, etc. are only there because of the EEOC requirements and other government regulations that employers have to keep statistics on, do you really think for a minute that anyone wants to go over 3000 resumes to find that special someone, not hardly. What they seek is the racial mix vs hiring mix that was involved in the determining factors. Then you have the supplier headhunting agencies that will only have an email address, no phone for you to submit your resume. Then you have the other people that sound like headhunters that are looking for resumes so they can steal your identity. Then there are the few placers that place the request on the internet, but they do have their phone numbers listed. Confused, I sure was when I was looking. Could never figure out why the same jobs kept coming around and seemingly moving from state to state. Don't even get me started with the blasting of resumes to 30,000 strangers, which is completely careless and shows nothing more than despiration and little integrity.

So if it is a company, go to their company website and apply. If there is an agency involved, do not apply unless there is a phone number to call first, or to follow up on your resume. If you get the answer that they don't have time to go over your resume or qualifications, let them know to destroy your information and move on.

Many people have hopes to land another job and think that the internet will do it for them, more likely it will do it to them. Americans are way too careless with their personal information and it can come back to bite them, actually to apply mulitiple times for the same job, through different agencies will kill your chance to land the job you seek. Because no company that is hiring will ever want to get into ownership issues with headhunters, they will say, that person applied direct and throw your resume in the trash.

You can still use the internet as a tool and I always suggest the following. Find a website that lists the companies in a specific industry that you want to find employement in. Go to the individual companies, find the source that you must apply through by email and then follow up with a phone call 3 days later. Do not use the boxes or templates in a word processing program to make your resume because the inhaler programs used by employers and headhunters will not absorb the information into their systems and will be discarded. If your information is not there, ask for another email address that is not hooked to peoplesoft or other resume inhaler programs for a hand review. If they won't do that, you don't need to work for them. Same for headhunters. Beware of those that will not talk to you on the phone, they have much to hide. Never supply birthdates,social security information on the internet, it simply is not necessary. If a form is ever sent to you to fill out, talk first. No talk, no fill out. Ask the headhunter to advise you prior to sharing your information with any third party, no cooperation, terminate your relationship.

Need anymore info, just ask. It sucks but sometimes it is best to know in advance than to be mislead forever.