Job Board / Job Posting Complainers

Just because you do not see a job listing on a company's website that you are currently seeing on a job board, does not mean that it is not an open job with the company. Let that sink in for a moment.... So please, stay focused on the task at hand and stop complaining to job sites, aggregators, and anyone else that will listen when this circumstance arises because your present level awareness on the topic is not accurate.

I have worked in HR staffing departments at companies with over 15,000 employees and start-ups with 20 employees. I have witnessed firsthand an endless number of open jobs that never made it on to the company website. It happens ALL of the time. Not just some of the time, all of the time. Also, as an external recruiter, I alone have recruited on hundreds, probably more in the thousands, of positions that never were posted in a company's career section, but that I had posted to job sites. Times me by millions of companies and tens of thousands of recruiters, and you will see the point. This is also a great reason to engage recruiters when the situation is appropriate because they have knowledge of thousands of job openings not currently posted on company career sites, or job sites.

The next you feel the urge to complain to someone regarding your disdain for a job posting or job site, stop, take a deep breath, and move on to something productive. Go do something else for a moment to find a job. Job boards should only be one of several methods you use to find a new job. Again, there are endless circumstances in which a job will be posted to a job site but will never be posted to a company's website. You do not need to display to others what you think you know on the topic by sending emails and calling job sites and aggregators to complain about jobs you do not see on both sites, or that you believe are not real.

Job aggregators, career sites, recruiters, and job boards certainly should not be wasting valuable time responding to complaints of this nature, and obviously job seekers should not be wasting valuable research time on such fruitless activities. No employment site or person owes any explanation to anyone as to how the world works in the employment industry. It is that person's job to figure it out on their own. If you do not like a job posting, or do not get a reply from a company, move on. There are literally tens of millions employers in the U.S. and millions of job openings, many which will never appear on job sites.

For all entry level job seekers who apply to headhunter/recruiter's job postings and then complain when they don't get a reply, internalize the following information. Hiring companies will never pay a fee to a headhunter for an entry level or junior job seeker. That is exactly why you did not get a reply to the job you applied for 10 times. Keep in mind too that nobody owes a reply or acknowledgement to every one of the millions of people who apply for jobs. That is not a reasonable request. If you do not like a job posting or job board, or get a reply from a company, move on. I hope this information saves you time and aggravation.