The creators that invested in the Vegas dream were ahead of their time and reap the rewards long into the night.

Recruitment advertising in the newspapers had some sense of culture and reward for the active job seeker and the early general news advertiser, but the slow turning wheel that stirred the ‘rivers of gold’ (And well supported by the ad agencies hungry for their commissions), seems here in Australia not to know how to move with the times.

The internet is like Vegas to the active jobseeker, it has the razzle dazzle of job choice and the expectation that by shooting off résumés like they are going out of fashion, that their dreams will come true.

But ‘buyer beware’, you only get what you pay for!

Once the wheels are in motion you have to still perform in this dog eat dog world of
online recruitment.

Let’s hope that online recruitment is the Vegas of recruiting and that when the next big thing arrives on the scene we are still reaping the rewards long into the night!

In a previous lifetime, a manager could receive about 25 resumes for an advertised position. Most mailings would be local, and people would think about spending the postage.

Now with email and online forms making submission costs irrelevant, recruiters can receive 100’s of entries for one job posting.

This has made it far more difficult for the truly talented active job candidate who wants to make a change. It’s tough for this person to differentiate themselves from all the other wannabees who are hoping to get lucky.

This has some of the technically savvy decide that they will purposely use the Internet in their lives only up to a point. Sure, they may find out about certain openings through job sites. Yet they also know human beings still insist on hiring human beings. So until recruiting is actually delegated entirely to machine, there’s still the chance of inserting the human component somewhere in this, including the in-person visit advocated by Howard Figler who recently revised his Complete Job Search Handbook.