August 4, 1997

Find An IS Job Online More job seekers- and recruiters-consult a growing number of job-search Web sites By Kate Maddox etwork and project manager Tom Mills wasn't really looking for a new job last October when he stumbled across an interesting posting on the IntelliMatch online job board. "I was surfing the Net one day, trying to get an indication of salaries for my employees to make sure I was paying them enough money, and I came across this option," says Mills, who quickly E-mailed his resumé to Star Network Technology Inc., a Union City, Calif., search firm handling recruiting for software company Clarify Inc. in San Jose, Calif. One week later, Mills landed the job as network and telecom manager at Clarify. Mills is in the same enviable position as a lot of other IS professionals: He doesn't need to look for a job. Mills averages two phone calls every night from h eadhunters trying to recruit him. But just the same, he checks out online job boards, including IntelliMatch, Monster Board, and others. What Mills likes most about IntelliMatch is its ease of use, advanced searching capabilities and quality of job leads. "You've got to find some decent positions pretty quickly," says Mills. If users don't find an interesting posting in the first minute and a half, he says, they'll probably move on to another site. Andy Stevenson, online marketing manager at educational software maker the Learning Co. in Fremont, Calif., used online job boards unsuccessfully when he was looking for a new job about a year ago while working at a Web development firm. He says he posted his name to several boards, but didn't have any luck with interviews. Then he got more targeted in his searching. In addition to posting his resumé on job boards such as Career- Mosaic, Monster Board and Online Career Center , Stevenson searched high-tech sites to identify companies with recent IPOs and promising technology. He then went to the Web sites of these companies to research their businesses and find out more about job opportunities, then sent his resumés and targeted cover letters via E-mail to the companies. Stevenson's success rate was high: He ended up with several job offers. "Doing research and tailoring my resumé to them was very effective, and I was able to do it all online," says Stevenson. Herman Wadler, who lost his job as technical sales trainer at UB Networks when it was acquired by Newbridge Networks Inc., landed eight interviews and one job offer after just two weeks in the job market. He credits much of his success to Internet job boards. "Going through an online job fair is a numbers game," says Wadler. "The more interviews I have going, the better my chances are." He's gotten most of his interviews from the Virtual Job Fair , which is operated by High Tech Careers magazine, and West ech Expo Corp., which produces job fairs nationwide. The site features more than 15,000 high-tech job listings, a resumé-posting service for job seekers, a resumé-search service for employers, and events listings. After posting his resumé on the VJF Web site and sending it to companies posting jobs, Wadler landed four more phone interviews, one of which resulted in a face-to-face interview, all with high-tech companies seeking technical sales trainers. The three other interviews came from word-of-mouth referrals. See related story " Online Recruiting ." Back to Careers Send Us Your Feedback Top of the Page

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