Top Seven Reasons Most Job Seekers are Best Served Applying for Jobs on Employer Career Pages and Not Through Large Commercial J

CreativePro Staff

Hound.com founder A. Harrison Barnes thinks the best way for all but the highest-paid and most-qualified job seekers to get jobs is by applying directly for jobs found on employer websites.
"The number of positions on employer websites is staggering and dwarfs every major job board out there in volume," said Barnes. "Therefore, on behalf of every job seeker in America, I am going to go to employers’ career pages and show people all the jobs out there I can find. This is going to change the way the world gets jobs."
Barnes has set out to electronically monitor every single employer website in the world through his new search engine, www.Hound.com. Hound displays no recruiter ads or jobs from other job boards.
According to Barnes, there are seven reasons most job seekers are better off searching employer career pages through Hound:

1. Employers pay nothing to post jobs on their websites; they usually post on their own websites before posting on job boards.
2. There are vastly more positions on employer websites than there are anywhere else.
3. Employers are more likely to update their job listings on their own websites than they are on a job board.
4. An employer will have to pay up to 40% of a candidate’s annual salary if it uses a recruiter, while posting on its own website costs nothing.
5. Many job boards are jungles of recruiter ads and opportunities that are usually posted for the purpose of "resume mining" rather than actual hiring.
6. When you apply directly to an employer, there is no middleman involved.
7. When you apply directly to an employer through its website, the employer feels like you have come to the site out of personal interest, investigated the company, and really want to work there.