Originally posted by Riddil:
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Online job sites are actually the worst thing you could do for the industry.
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I respectfully disagree.
You indicate that the odds are unfavorable in the online world because anyone can submit for anything so every good job has 1,000 applicants and the odds of being a top 5 applicant are 200 to 1 as opposed to the implied "good ole' days" where the odds were 20 to 1.
The problem with the good ole days is that there were only 12 jobs. With online boards there are 1 million jobs.
What you are essentially argueing is that the job market
improves when the universe of available jobs and available applicants shrinks.
Let's take that point to an extreme until there is only one job and one applicant. Odds are they don't match (the candidate is unwilling to accept the job or the employer is unwilling to accept the applicant). So, unemployment is at 100%. Now, add one more applicant and one more job. While candidate A is qualified for both jobs, he/she can only accept one leaving a job slot for candidate B. Even if job B and candidate B don't match, unemployment is now at 50%.
Continue adding jobs and applicants until every applicant can apply for every job. It is not a stretch to see that when this happens, the odds of all employers and employees matching up are
maximized when everyone applies for everything.