You’ll see our tag line ‘we do the work so you can do the job’ on our site and in our articles a lot but what exactly do we mean by that? In a nutshell it means we’ve created a highly-effective job search so you can spend your time reviewing, applying to and accepting the jobs you want instead of figuring out ways to simply find them.
But what makes a jobs search 'highly effective’?
Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative:
It turns out an effective job search is comprised of two key components; returning as many of the matches in a single search and eliminating as many of the jobs that are not a match at the same time. As pedantic as that may sound, ask yourself how often job searches actually deliver on either. Let's take a look at why both are required:
- Find all the right jobs: A search for ‘ER Nurse’ should return most or all of the same jobs as ‘Emergency RN’ or you are missing out on jobs whichever term you use. Jobs that might be perfect for you should show up even if you choose a different job title than your prospective employer did. We're pretty sure you don't know off the top of your head the twenty different ways to search for 'ER Nurse' or the hundred-plus ways to search for 'Echo Technician' but we are very sure you shouldn't have to. That's our job.
- Eliminate the wrong jobs: The problem with wrong jobs showing up isn't just that they are wrong for you; it is that they take the space of jobs that are right for you. So if your dream job doesn't even show up until page 10, it is likely a dream job someone else is going to be hired for. The Physician who wastes their time reviewing pages of 'Physician Assistant' jobs they don't want does so while another Physician is applying to the jobs he or she does want.
So an effective job search is one that puts matching jobs in front of you even if they don't match your exact search terms and doesn't bury those jobs behind ones that aren’t even close to being a match. If you are a recruiter it means you aren't wasting your budget on clicks from users who were shown the wrong jobs or missing out on candidates who didn't happen to use the exact same terminology while searching that you used when posting.
Finding the right occupation is only half the battle when you're trying to find a job so we applied the same philosophy to the rest of the job-search puzzle:
Finding the right occupation is only half the battle when you're trying to find a job so we applied the same philosophy to the rest of the job-search puzzle:
- Location, Location, Location: The same truth that applies to occupations applies to locations as well; an effective job search finds jobs in the all the right locations and not in any of the wrong locations. Please see our articles on CommuteTime, Radius Searching and RealLocal Job Search but suffice it to say that speciallist understands that the right job in the wrong place is the wrong job and the right job in the right place is neither if you never get to see it.
- The Devil is in the Details: Lastly we believe that every minute you spend reviewing jobs for the specific criteria you require to apply to them is a minute someone else is applying to them. So we took the time to create hundreds of filters you can use to reduce your already-effective job search to just the ones you really want with a few clicks of your mouse. If you are a recruiter you will really appreciate this because a single mouse click on a speciallist filter that costs you nothing can eliminate dozens of mouse clicks that would otherwise have wasted your pay-per-click budget. And we don't want recruiters wasting their money any more than we want candidates wasting their time.
speciallist understands that every job you want that is not put in front of you is a job you want being put in front of someone else. And that every moment you waste reviewing a job listing you don't want is a moment someone else is applying to a job you do want. So we did something about it. Because at specialList, we do the work so you can do the job.
