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Unadvertised Positions for IT Professionals

The most attractive IT job openings are in the unadvertised and created job markets. According to “Guide to Careers”, an article in Business Week magazine, more than 85% of available jobs are unadvertised. "To gain exposure to the best jobs - and the most jobs - you must thoroughly penetrate the unadvertised job market."

  • Just about everyone looking for their next position focuses their efforts on these highly competitive sources for leads: the internet, classified ads, and recruiters.

According to Dick Bolles, "If you took full advantage of all the most famous and popular sites – such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com (which now encompasses former job boards Headhunter.net and Career Mosaic) at best you would still only have access to less than one tenth of one percent of the 16 million employers in the U.S. … then at best, only 2 percent of seekers will have successful results."

  • Despite today's tremendous availability of information on the internet, online searching is most often fruitless, and always frustrating.

An in-depth New York Times study points out only slightly better odds concerning the other two common search methods and why a broad-based search campaign is an absolute necessity. The Times found if you contacted the nation's 45,500 search firms (including IT recruiters) and read every newspaper in the country each day for a year, then you would at most be exposed to only 15% of the job openings nationwide.

The key to greater access is to employ multiple simultaneous approaches. RLS provides meaningful information about unadvertised positions, current openings, decision-makers, growth and spot opportunities.  Our services result in more opportunities and better positions for a satisfying career in much less time.

The RLS method to penetrating this market:

  ü Reduces competition, thereby enhancing your market value
  ü Delivers maximum targeted exposure in the marketplace
  ü Generates quality interviews with key decision-makers
    

If you miss unadvertised opportunities, you sacrifice at least 8 out of 10 positions
that could be ideal for you. Maximize your exposure.

  ©2004 R.L.Stevens & Associates, Inc.