Stop Wasting Your Time on Job Boards, with Susan Joyce

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

Mac's List

Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Using a job board may seem like a productive way to spend your time, but is it? According to Find Your Dream Job guest Susan Joyce, the answer is “maybe.” Susan says job boards work best when you identify your target employers and customize your resume for those employers. She also recommends using job boards to do research on the companies you’ve chosen to target. And remember, 40% of jobs are filled by employee referrals, so if you know someone at one of your targeted employers, be sure to ask them to introduce you to the hiring manager. About Our Guest: Susan Joyce (https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanjoyce/) is the publisher and editor of JobHunt.org. (https://www.job-hunt.org/) With more than one million visitors a month, it’s one of the most popular job-search advice sites in the world. Resources in This Episode: For more advice from Susan and her contributing editors, visit job-hunt.org. (https://www.job-hunt.org/) Nail every behavioral interview question in your next interview by learning how to prepare for them. Download 100 Behavioral Interview Questions You Need to Know. (http://www.macslist.org/questions) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want,
1:18.0	and make a difference in life. I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List.
1:23.7	It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.
1:28.8	Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want.
1:34.7	Many people think the best way to find a great job is to spend all day, every day, answering ads on job boards like the one we run at Max List. But if that's all you're doing,
1:46.8	you're only making your job search harder. Here to talk about how to stop wasting time and get
1:52.6	the most out of job boards is Susan Joyce. She's the publisher and editor of jobhunt.org
1:58.4	with more than one million visitors a month, it's one of the most
2:02.1	popular job search advice sites in the world. Susan joins us today from outside Boston, Massachusetts.
2:08.7	Susan, let's jump right into it. What's the biggest mistake you see people make with job boards?
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