Job Seekers Should Complain About "Hidden Market" Access, says ITS
Thousands of job seekers visit our websites each month, many of them to take advantage of the free services they can get there, including free resume analysis and a comparison of how they stack up to their competition in more than 200 different characteristics. In the course of helping them, ITS routinely asks them what their biggest complaints are about job seeking in general.
"I don't really know what the 'hidden job market' means, and I know even less about how to tap into those jobs ," is a common complaint from job seekers, according to Drew Pollan, Vice-President of ITS in Denver. He went on to emphasize that people have every right to complain, because some unscrupulous firms use that phrase to make it sound mysterious, implying they have connections to it.
"The truth is," said Pollan, "there is nothing hidden about it. Jobs are incubating all the time in growth firms and many other employers as well. People can tap into them before those jobs get to the advertised stage in basically three ways - by getting a meaningful message to the right person in a growth firm, or one that has recently made the news in one of about a dozen categories, or one that fits a profile for needing your blend of talents.
"It's not easy, because it requires a lot of research, but it's certainly not mysterious. In fact, it was listening to that common complaint which led us to develop the information resources that make it a relatively easy task for our clients."
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