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]]> By: Jim R http://www.gadblog.com/2009/10/two-more-job-search-frustrations/comment-page-1/#comment-5225 Jim R Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:17:26 +0000 http://www.gadblog.com/?p=76#comment-5225 I am soooo tired of this "blame the job seeker" approach. I know literally hundreds of executives in my city that network like crazy and a dozen or so have found jobs in the last year. I have searched far and wide and found NO definitive source that proves that 80% (1 in 5) jobs are not advertised. Or whatever percentage the writer quotes from some other unattributed source. In fact, it's just wrong. Even the best the BOLS can say is "Many jobs are never advertised." There ARE hidden jobs. 1) MBAs from top schools keep in touch their entire lives. They quietly help each other throughout their careers. That "unadvertised" executive job was never open to anyone but their MBA network; 2) the "internal" position was filled with someone internal; 3) the job was a natural progression in the promotion path of someone already working there. See the point? These "hidden" jobs were never open for filling anyway! Even better are the suggestions that people "identify a need" so the hiring manager can create a job. Right. Does anyone know what headcount budgets are? Or that it is incredibly hard to know more about the hiring managers issues and options than the hiring manager? That's just a dumb idea. Let's stop blaming the victim. It's like fake Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live saying she didn't get the nomination "because she didn't want it bad enough." This is bull. There aren't jobs out there to be filled. Stop trying to tell the job seeker they're not getting the job because they don't want it bad enough. I am soooo tired of this “blame the job seeker” approach. I know literally hundreds of executives in my city that network like crazy and a dozen or so have found jobs in the last year. I have searched far and wide and found NO definitive source that proves that 80% (1 in 5) jobs are not advertised. Or whatever percentage the writer quotes from some other unattributed source. In fact, it’s just wrong. Even the best the BOLS can say is “Many jobs are never advertised.” There ARE hidden jobs. 1) MBAs from top schools keep in touch their entire lives. They quietly help each other throughout their careers. That “unadvertised” executive job was never open to anyone but their MBA network; 2) the “internal” position was filled with someone internal; 3) the job was a natural progression in the promotion path of someone already working there. See the point? These “hidden” jobs were never open for filling anyway!

Even better are the suggestions that people “identify a need” so the hiring manager can create a job. Right. Does anyone know what headcount budgets are? Or that it is incredibly hard to know more about the hiring managers issues and options than the hiring manager? That’s just a dumb idea.

Let’s stop blaming the victim. It’s like fake Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live saying she didn’t get the nomination “because she didn’t want it bad enough.” This is bull. There aren’t jobs out there to be filled. Stop trying to tell the job seeker they’re not getting the job because they don’t want it bad enough.

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