今天找工作(job today)需要与几年前不同的方法。公司以前叫嚣着吸引候选人的兴趣，而如今，他们使用的应用程序跟踪系统似乎泛滥成灾，简历上吹捧完全合格的求职者，其中只有少数人最终获得了面试机会。
竞争激烈，这意味着找到下一份工作可能需要比以前更多的精力和努力(energy and effort)，特别是如果它是一个利基角色或与一家受欢迎的公司合作。数字时代，任何地方的任何人都可以随时随地轻松地在线申请任何工作，但数量（申请人数）和时间（招聘人员的数量有限）对您不利。
所以，你必须更聪明地寻找工作。幸运的是，随着工作环境(job landscape)的发展，许多求职网站也可以帮助您找到您所追求的角色或职业。这里有五个求职网站，可将您的求职(job search)提升到新的水平。
领英
LinkedIn在许多方面已经从一个面向商业的社交网络平台(networking platform)发展为一个强大的求职网站，其工作功能是(Jobs function)微软(Microsoft)自收购该平台后继续建立的核心领域之一。这就是它的特别之处。
利用您的网络
任何人都可以使用职位(Jobs regardless)，无论他们是否是LinkedIn 会员(LinkedIn member)，但如果您不是，您将无法获得此功能的全部好处。
在找工作方面，LinkedIn 如此强大的原因在于，理想情况下，您已经是LinkedIn会员(LinkedIn)，(LinkedIn member)您可以使用该平台与其他专业人士建立联系，并及时了解您所在行业的趋势。如果是这样，您就有了一个人脉网络，可以在求职(job hunt)中加以利用。
LinkedIn会告诉您何时您在公司有联系，或者那里是否有人曾在某个时候为您当前的雇主工作过。您还可以进一步深入了解您是否有任何二级或三级连接。您不仅可以查看您是否与公司有任何联系，还可以查看招聘人员负责安排该职位的人员。
这扩大了您通过推荐进入大门的选择，这比发送简历并在赔率已经对您不利时希望最好的有效得多（回忆：数字，时间）。
个性化和自动化您的工作搜索
总体而言，LinkedIn将比任何其他
网站或平台(site or platform)为您提供更多有关您的职业和求职(career and job search)的个性化信息。在工作仪表板中，您可以告诉LinkedIn您的职业兴趣、您愿意通勤的距离、您正在寻找的工作类型、您喜欢的行业等等。根据此信息，
LinkedIn将向您显示符合您的求职(job search)条件的职位。
但是您可以而且应该使用 LinkedIn 的高级搜索引擎(search engine)进行自己的工作搜索。像任何求职网站一样，您可以搜索角色和位置(role and location)，然后保存这些搜索以在出现新工作时接收警报。
LinkedIn的不同之处在于，您还可以保存特定于公司的职位搜索，并接收专门针对您有兴趣了解这些组织职位的警报。这使您能够进行非常广泛或非常狭窄的搜索，然后自动接收这些搜索，这样您就不必继续检查。
去高级
如果您想获得特定类型的
角色或(role or work)为特定公司工作，竞争激烈且获胜需要更多战术方法，您可以激活每月 29.99 美元的LinkedIn Premium以获得其他申请人的竞争情报，例如您是否是顶级申请人，以及与其他申请人相比，您拥有或缺少哪些技能。
高级计划(Premium plan)的其他功能包括：
- 直接向招聘人员发送消息
- 被列为招聘人员的特色申请人
- 在线视频(Online video)课程，以提高您的技能
- 能够查看谁查看了您的
LinkedIn 个人资料(LinkedIn profile)以及他们是如何找到您的
- 在不共享您的个人数据的情况下访问工作的工资详细信息
Premium 可以让您在竞争中脱颖而出，但总的来说，LinkedIn 的工作功能(Jobs function)将帮助任何正在寻找工作或转行(job or career change)的人找到它。
玻璃门
Glassdoor是求职者多年来一直使用的主要求职网站。虽然它提供了与LinkedIn(LinkedIn)和其他求职网站相媲美的出色求职功能，但其平台的一些核心方面使其与众不同。
查看公司的本色
Glassdoor最重要的方面以及创建它的原因是，它使求职者能够通过Glassdoor 的个人资料(Glassdoor profile)了解公司的真正文化。
首先，您可以从他们的角度了解公司的概况，包括有关规模和行业(size and sector)的一般细节、他们认为人们应该为他们工作的原因，甚至是展示他们声称要推广的文化的图片或视频。
然而，真正重要的是其他人——从现任和前任员工到现任或前任求职者——对公司的评价。
这些评论，有时是数千条，根据人们对公司经验的评价，包括他们是否推荐该公司、是否有良好前景的评级量表(rating scale)，让您真正了解该公司是否值得申请关于公司，以及他们是否认可CEO。
准备面试
在公司的Glassdoor 页面上(Glassdoor page)，您还可以访问Interviews ，它可以让您从在您的职位上的其他人那里对公司的面试过程进行评论。(interview process)
面试功能(Interviews feature)提供了一些前期图表，概述了面试经验(interview experience)，申请人通过哪些方法成功获得面试，以及公司面试的一般难度。
再深入一点，您可以按
工作类型(job type)过滤面试。这一点很重要，因为除了与招聘人员进行的第一次或两次对话之外，公司内的不同组织可能有独特的面试方式。如果您喜欢更大的图景，您可以对所有面试评论日期、受欢迎程度和其他过滤器进行排序。
最后，Glassdoor允许面试审查员深入了解公司在面试中倾向于提出哪些类型的问题。这使得准备与公司的面试变得更容易一些，因为您在一定程度上知道会出现什么问题，并且可以提前找到答案。
了解工资和福利
Glassdoor的另外两个强大功能是
薪水和福利(Salaries and Benefits)。同样(Again)，这些功能使您能够阅读其他人对您可能有兴趣申请的公司的评价。
工资可以按角色搜索和浏览。通过深入了解特定角色，您可以根据多年的经验查看当前或过去员工的工资范围。
这一点很重要，因为当您考虑获得工作机会(job offer)或最终需要谈判获得更高薪水的情况时，它会为您提供准确的工作估算。
同样，福利(Benefits)使您能够了解公司提供的福利以及人们对这些福利的看法。您可以获得整体福利包的平均评级，还可以深入了解提供的具体福利，以了解员工如何看待公司的健康保险、401K 等。
除了出色的求职功能之外，有了所有这些信息，Glassdoor可能是那些既关心自己在哪里工作又关心他们想要找到什么工作的人的首选求职网站。
缪斯
The Muse采用非典型路线成为值得信赖的求职网站，最初是在线出版物The Daily Muse，围绕职业制作内容。考虑到它为今天的求职者提供什么作为 The Muse，这个求职网站已经从它开始的地方走了很长一段路。
个性化您的体验
与LinkedIn类似，The Muse可以个性化您的求职(job search)，但方式不同。The Muse会就您在求职(job search)中寻找的内容以及原因提出一系列简短的问题。通过连接您的LinkedIn 帐户(LinkedIn account)，The Muse拥有更多数据，可为您提供丰富的套餐：
- (Jobs)与您的输入相关并基于您的位置偏好的(location preference)工作
- 在这些地区值得调查的公司
- 相关的职业建议(career advice)可通过 The Muse的各种文章获得(Muse)
探索公司
The Muse(Muse)的一项特殊功能是
探索(Explore) 公司(Companies)。虽然Glassdoor提供了来自数百名意见不同的公司的广泛见解，但 The Muse专注于构建它认为值得强调的特定公司的高质量、深入的功能。
这些功能包括视频、照片、虚拟办公室参观、员工见解等等——当然还包括可用的工作。如果您正在寻找一种特定类型的公司工作，而不是在任何地方找到一种类型的工作，The Muse可以让您深入了解您可能想要的地方，从文化到审美再到位置角度和更多的。
获得职业建议
坚持其根源，The Muse仍然在其“(Muse)建议”部分(Advice section)非常注重制作以职业为中心的内容。在这里，您可以阅读 The Muse职业专家关于职业建议、求职(Job Search)、职业路径(Career Paths)、管理(Management)等方面的文章。无论您需要知道什么来帮助您完成求职之旅(job-search journey)，这个求职网站都可能有一些信息可以分享。
吸引许多求职者的一个部分是现在招聘的公司(Companies)。虽然 The Muse无法为每家公司制作
包含照片和视频片段的深度(video footage)功能包(feature package)，但它们在这些文章中让您深入了解其他工作场所的工作做得很好。
除了这些核心领域之外，The Muse还提供更多服务，但总的来说，它之所以成为一个独特而强大的求职网站，是因为它拥有庞大的知识库，能够为需要指导、希望清晰且仍然希望轻松自在的求职者提供服务在一天结束时找到他们感兴趣的职位的方法。
找工作
还有其他求职网站值得调查。Indeed仍被吹捧为寻找工作的最佳场所之一。Monster以其制作的内容而闻名，它可以帮助求职者更多地了解如何在求职过程中取得成功。Balance Careers(The Balance Careers)也是此内容的可信赖来源，尽管它不提供求职功能(job search function)。
尽管如此， LinkedIn(LinkedIn)、Glassdoor和 The Muse还是有一些独特之处
。无论(Regardless)您喜欢哪个网站，将它们结合使用都是一个聪明的主意。如今，求职世界发展迅速，充满了障碍。如果你想赢，你需要这些求职网站提供的智能功能、自动化和信息。(automation and information)
祝你找到新工作好运！
The Three Best Job Hunting Sites That Take ‘Job Search’ to New Heights
Finding a job today requires a different
approach than it did even a few years аgo. Where companies were previously
clamoring for interest from candidates, today it seems the аpplication tracking
systems they use are spilling over with resumes touting perfectly qualified job
seekers, only a few of which end up landing interviews.
Competition is steep, which means landing your
next job is probably going to require more energy and effort than it used to,
especially if it’s a niche role or with a popular company. The digital era,
where anyone from anywhere can easily apply to any job online anytime, has
pitted volume (of applicants) and time (the limited amount recruiters have)
against you.
So, you have to be smarter about your job
search. Fortunately, as the job landscape has evolved, so have many job hunting
sites that can help you find the role or the career you’re after. Here are five
job hunting sites that take your job search to new levels.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn has evolved from a business-oriented social networking platform to a robust job hunting site in many respects, with its Jobs function being one of the core areas Microsoft has continued to build out since acquiring the platform. Here’s what makes it special.
Leverage Your Network
Anyone can use Jobs regardless of whether they’re a LinkedIn member, but you won’t get the full benefits of this function if you aren’t.
What makes LinkedIn so powerful when it comes to finding a job is that you’re ideally already a LinkedIn member using the platform to network with other professionals and to stay abreast of trends in your industry. If so, you have a network of connections to leverage in your job hunt.
LinkedIn will tell you when you have
connections at a company or if there are people there who previously worked for
your current employer at some point.You can also drill further to see if you
have any second or third-degree connections. Not only can you see if you have
any connections at a company, you can see who the recruiter is in charge of
placing the role.
This expands your options for getting a foot
in the door through referral, which is much more effective than sending a
resume and hoping for the best when the odds are already stacked against you (recall:
numbers, time).
Personalize and Automate Your Job
Searches
Overall, LinkedIn will feed you more
personalized information regarding your career and job search than any other
site or platform. In the jobs dashboard, you can tell LinkedIn your career
interests, how far you’re willing to commute, what type of employment you’re
looking for, which industries you prefer and more. Based on this information,
LinkedIn will show you jobs that fit your job search criteria.
But you can, and should, also conduct your own job searches with LinkedIn’s advanced search engine. Like any job hunting site, you can search on role and location, then save those searches to receive alerts when new jobs appear.
What makes LinkedIn different is you can also save job searches that are specific to companies and receive alerts dedicated to positions you’re interested in knowing about at those organizations. This gives you the ability to conduct very broad or very narrow searches, then automate those to receive so you don’t have to keep checking back.
Go Premium
If you’re trying to land a specific kind of
role or work for a specific company where competition is thick and winning
requires a more tactical approach, you can activate LinkedIn Premium, which
costs $29.99/month, to get competitive intelligence on other applicants, such
as whether you’re a top applicant and which skills you have or are missing in
comparison to other applicants.
Others features of the Premium plan include:
- Direct messaging to recruiters
- Being listed as a featured
applicant to recruiters
- Online video courses to grow your
skills
- The ability to see who views your
LinkedIn profile and how they found you
- Access to salary details on jobs
without sharing your personal data
Premium could give you a leg up against the
competition, but in general, LinkedIn’s Jobs function will help anyone who’s
looking for a job or career change find it.
Glassdoor
Glassdoor is a staple job hunting site that job seekers have been using for years. While it offers a great job-search function on par with LinkedIn and other job hunting sites, there are a few core aspects of its platform that differentiate it from the rest.
See Companies’ True Colors
The most important aspect of Glassdoor, and the reason for why it was created, is that it gives job seekers the ability to understand the true culture of a company on their Glassdoor profile.
To start, you get an overview of the company from their perspective, including general details about size and sector, why they think people should work for them, and even images or videos showing the culture they claim to promote.
What’s really important, however, are the reviews others–from current and former employees to current or previous job applicants–give the company.
These reviews, sometimes in the thousands, give you a real sense of whether the company is worth applying to based on what people say about their experience with the company, including a rating scale on whether they recommend the company, whether they have a good outlook on the company, and whether they approve of the CEO.
Prep for Interviews
While on a company’s Glassdoor page, you can also access Interviews, which gives you reviews of the company’s interview process from others who have been in your position.
The Interviews feature provides some up-front graphs that give an overview of the interview experience, through which methods applicants have been successful in securing an interview, and the general difficulty of the interviews for the company.
Moving deeper, you can filter interviews by
job type. This is important, as different organizations within a company could
have unique ways of interviewing beyond the first one or two conversations you
have with a recruiter. If you prefer a bigger picture, you can sort all
interview reviews date, popularity and other filters.
Lastly, Glassdoor allows interview reviewers
to give insight into what kinds of questions the company tends to ask in
interviews. This makes preparing for an interview with the company a little
easier, as you know to an extent what questions to expect and can work on
answers to them ahead of time.
Understand Salaries and Benefits
Two more strong features of Glassdoor are
Salaries and Benefits. Again, these features give you the ability to read what
others say about them with regard to the company you’re interested in
potentially applying to.
Salaries can be searched and browsed on by role. By drilling into a specific role, you can see the salary ranges for current or past employees based on years of experience.
This is important, as it gives you an accurate estimate to work from when considering how much money you’re going to ask for if you get a job offer or if you end up in a situation where you need to negotiate for a higher salary.
Likewise, Benefits gives you the ability to
see what benefits the company offers and what people think of them. You get an
average rating of the overall benefits package and can also drill into specific
benefits offered for a sense of how employees regard the company’s health
insurance, 401K and more.
With all this information in addition to a
great job-search function, Glassdoor may be the go-to job hunting site for
those who care as much about where they work as what job they want to land.
The Muse
Taking an atypical route to becoming a trusted job hunting site, The Muse began as an online publication, The Daily Muse, producing content around careers. Considering what it offers job seekers today as The Muse, this job hunting site has come a long way from where it began.
Personalize Your Experience
Similar to LinkedIn, The Muse can personalize
your job search, but in a different way. The Muse asks a short series of
questions about what you’re looking for in your job search and why. By then
connecting your LinkedIn account, The Muse has even more data to give you a
rich package of:
- Jobs related to your input and
based on your location preference
- Companies worth investigating in
those locales
- Relevant career advice available
through an assortment of articles from The Muse
Explore Companies
One of the exceptional features of The Muse is
Explore Companies. While Glassdoor provides a breadth of insight into companies
from hundreds of people with varying opinions, The Muse focuses on building out
high-quality, in-depth features of specific companies it feels are worthy of
being highlighted.
These features include videos, photos, virtual
office tours, insights from employees, and more–including, of course,
available jobs. If you’re looking for a specific type of company to work for,
more so than finding a type of job anywhere you can, The Muse gives you the
deep understanding you may want of a place, from a cultural to aesthetic to
location perspective and more.
Get Career Advice
Sticking to its roots, The Muse still puts a
large focus on producing career-focused content in its Advice section. Here,
you can read article upon article from The Muse’s career experts on Career
Advice, Job Search, Career Paths, Management and more. Whatever you need to
know to help you along your job-search journey, this job hunting site likely
has some info to share.
One section that will appeal to many job
seekers is Companies Hiring Now. While The Muse can’t produce an in-depth
feature package equipped with photos and video footage for every company, they
do a great job giving you insight into other places of employment in these
articles.
There’s more The Muse offers on top of these
core areas, but overall, what makes it a unique and powerful job hunting site
is the vast repository of knowledge it’s able to serve job seekers who need
guidance, want clarity and still want to have an easy way to find the positions
they’re interested in at the end of the day.
Get Job Hunting
There are other job hunting sites out there worth investigating. Indeed is still touted as one of the best places to search for jobs. Monster is well-known for the content it produces to help job seekers learn more about how to be successful in the job hunting process. The Balance Careers is also a trusted source for this content, though it doesn’t offer a job search function.
Still, there’s something unique about
LinkedIn, Glassdoor and The Muse. Regardless of which sites you prefer, it’s a
smart idea to leverage them in conjunction. The job hunting world moves fast
these days and is full of obstacles. If you want to win, you’ll need the smart
functionality, automation and information these job hunting sites provide.
Best of luck on landing that new job!
