General and Biotech Job Sites
You have probably
noticed if you have been looking for a biotechnology job that you have a
few options in the area of job boards and biotech job sites, but do you
really? You have most likely figured out that many biotech,
pharmaceutical, and general job sites leave a little to be desired. Most
job sites seem to have been created for reasons other than helping you
find a job, like pushing education literature down your throat.
Think of a biotech job search like trying to find something to eat and
job sites are restaurants. Sure, you can pick out your current
favorite 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 biotech job sites, general job sites,
science niche sites, and
biotech employers in one place. You might
say it is a menu that includes items from all of the leading restaurants.
That is what
this biotech job site offers. We do offer biotechnology and
pharmaceutical
employers the ability to post, market, and feature their jobs and
company career site directly on a niche biotech job site,
but we also offer the Internet's premier job search engine. It indexes nearly every
biology, chemistry, and science job from all major job sites, niche
biotech sites, biotech orgs, and biotech employer's job pages.
This biotechnology job site offers real value and is exactly how you
should manage an efficient job search. Job
searching is not necessarily enjoyable, so if you are going to
invest your job search time wisely, utilize a biotech job
site that presents relevant industry information and allows you to sort through jobs from multiple sources.
Posting Biotech Jobs
Overpaying for
individual biotech 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 biotechnology jobs and company
career site can receive inexpensively with targeted biotech niche
sites and proper search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM) techniques is immense.
A
strong corporate or agency biotech recruiter knows that expensive
job postings on general job sites, that quickly get buried within other
jobs, is not how you successfully fill jobs. A key to
success with job postings, and a good return on your recruiting
investment, is to make sure your job postings will be seen on
niche recruitment sites, which often attract passive job seekers, and
make sure your jobs are distributed to multiple large and small job
sites, blogs, and social / business networking sites.
Job postings only attract
some of the potential biotech job seekers. If you have money to
invest on recruiting, find some alternative marketing avenues, such as
building a long-term brand on niche biotech and pharma career and job
sites,
and consider utilizing pay-per-click advertising such as with
Google AdWords. An important method
that marketing departments have been using for years is to advertise a
company logo and link on relevant sites. The only proven and
effective way to build a long-term brand is to have people consistently
see your logo and tagline.
Avoid the quick fix method to attract the top biotech job
seekers. Look outside of the large general job sites if you want
to develop a high quality biotech recruiting campaign that attracts
the top life science, chemistry, and biology candidates year after year.
Biotech Resume Posting
Posting your
biotech resume
seems easy and harmless enough, but is posting your resume worth the effort? Maybe, but you need to consider a few things.
When managing a biotech job search, do not rely on others to sort through an
resume databases to find you. It can happen, but do not rely
on it. Be proactive. As much as you can, research, approach,
and apply to biotechnology employers and jobs directly.
The major problem with
resume databases is that relatively few biotech and pharmaceutical employers pay the high cost to
belong to them.
Some large companies do, but keep in mind, there are thousands of
biotech employers
in the U.S. It is the case
that the majority of biotech employers in America are considered
small companies. They are rarely spending thousands of dollars on a resume database in order to fill a few
biotechnology or science related jobs.
If you are going to post
your biotech resume, do so with more than just one or two job sites
as this will rarely produce a new biotech job. Everyone knows about
Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder, but there other places to post your
resume as well, and we are not referring to the thousands of obscure
biotechnology and general job sites you should avoid.
The top 10 job sites for posting your biotech resume, which may actually
have employers utilizing them, comprise nearly 100%
of all resume database paying
biotech employers. As a rule of
thumb, if you have not heard of a particular general or biotech
job site, do not waste your time posting your resume to it. Stick to
large job boards such as
Monster,
HotJobs,
and
CareerBuilder,
etc. if you
are going to integrate resume posting into your biotech job search efforts.
Top 10 Biotech Job Search Advice
1. Utilize an biotech job search site that indexes biotech job
postings from employer's sites, major job sites, niche sites, orgs, and
specialty sites. Do not waste your time searching individual job sites.
2. Never pay to belong to a biotech, pharmaceutical, or general job site no matter how tempting they make it sound.
3. Do not sign up or register for a job board in order to apply for
a biotech job. Apply directly to biotech and pharmaceutical employers only.
4. Use a targeted niche biotech job site for job searching as
they provide more relevant job related ads, employers, information, and resources.
5. Do not sign up for a job site, biotech job sites included, in order to see
job search results. Never give anyone your home address.
6. Get off of job boards some of the time and utilize other
methods for locating job openings. Like a good salesperson would do,
diversify your new job prospecting approach and methods. One of them
will come through.
7. Job search and apply for jobs for more than a couple
of hours per day. There is only a lack of jobs if the effort to find one
is mediocre.
8. Locate and research employers outside of job boards. There
are thousands of biotechnology employers and jobs.
Find relevant companies to market your services to. Be creative and think outside of the job board.
9. Only invest time searching for jobs through biotech recruiters
if your biotech skills, experience, and work history are exceptional.
10. Do not rely on posting your resume to general job sites or
biotech job sites. Biotechnology employers do use them, and you
should certain ones too, but it is a relatively small number who pay for these services.
**Do not underestimate
how critical your resume presentation is when you apply to a company and
when you take it to interviews.
