Expert Career Advice: Finding the Best Nursing Jobs

Searching for a new nursing job can be difficult, hard because you never know for certain if you are being considered for all the nursing jobs that your qualified for. It is easy to feel that you are not finding the majority of open jobs. Many nurses will spend a lot of time bouncing from one job board to another applying to the open jobs that are posted there, but are the services available there really even worth your time and effort, when most job seekers just want to find a site where they can find all the nursing jobs.

All major job boards make it very easy to stay on their sites for long period of time applying to open nursing jobs

Most nurses will find it disappointing to find out that applying to advertised jobs is one of the lease effective way to land their next job.

Sure, the big job boards give away many services for free, but they make all their money selling advertising and resume database access to employers. Is it any wonder the major job boards give all the true advantages to the those who pay the bills?

What The Job Boards Don't Want You to Know Monster.com gathers together a massive number of aspiring employees, but each job seeker is competing for a very limited number of openings. Monster.com offers only 3% of all jobs advertised on the Internet. Most nurses and Internet surfers assume that the big job boards are just like Google and offer access to jobs throughout the Internet. But, Monster.com, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder allow access to their database of employer paid ads.

It is no wonder that employers love the big jobs boards. In competitive markets, each advertised job fetches an average of 500 resumes.

Knowing how many resumes a hiring manger receives, it should be no surprise to find that they spend an average of 7 seconds looking at a resume.

What is a great deal for employers actually puts the job seeker into the proverbial small fish in a big pond. Imagine knowing at the outset that you have less than a 1/2 percent chance to be considered for a job interview?

The big job boards make tons of money from employers, but they offer little value to the job seeker. Several State Employment center studies show only 5% of job seekers find employment through advertising.

The big job boards actually make more money by limiting the number available openings you can search for. Even if you bounced from Monster to CareerBuilder to HotJobs, you'd find less than 10% of the advertised jobs on the Internet, and you'd spend a lot of time hopping from site to site.

Savvy job seekers know there is a role the big job boards play when looking for their next nursing job, but they also know not to waste time searching a tiny pool of available jobs.

Looking for work is a full time jobs, and you don't want to put your time and effort into activities that don't pay off. Answering every open job ad is one the least effective ways to find work.

A Meta Job Search Engine Just for Nurses Don't confuse Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder with job search engines. They are job boards, publishing only the jobs that employers pay to publish. You will find a tiny percentage of the advertised jobs on those boards.

The place to look for 99% of all advertised openings is to use a meta job search engine specializing in nursing jobs at My-Nursing-Career.com. For broader searches, the two best meta job search engines are Indeed, and SimplyHired.

Now that you know where to find all the jobs, consider how much time to spend applying to opting found on the Internet. When only 5% of all jobs are found through advertising, consider turning the 80/20 rule, or the 95/5 rule backwards. Find the most effective job seeking strategies and prioritize the more productive job searching tactics.

In other parts of the series, you can find how to tap into the hidden job market, how to get more interviews, how to get introduction to hiring mangers from within almost any company, what you should really do with all of the nursing jobs (http://www.my-nursing-career.com/jobs/nursing-jobs/index.php) that you find, and more. You can also find great resouces for all nursing disiplines including travel nursing jobs (http://www.my-nursing-career.com/jobs/travel-nursing-jobs/index.php), pediatric nursing jobs (http://www.my-nursing-career.com/jobs/pediatric-nursing-jobs/index.php), and more.

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