Job Sites - On the Other Hand

Whilst the list of job site incompetents grows ever longer, there is more positive news.

I have actually encountered a few companies that are not information/CV black holes. A few companies have emailed to say that particular applications were not successful; so in the spirit of perfect even handedness, whilst I shall continue to berate those who, it would seem, have never bothered to try using their own search engines it's time to say Very Well Done to:

• CMC Partnership
• Thomson Reuters
• BrightRed

who took the trouble to send emails once the CV had been considered against the client's requirements.

Not that I expect for a moment that anyone is employed to send such emails, rather I applaud the forward thinking that said "we're keeping a database of applications, so we know who we select and who we don't... it should be trivial to automate the 'thanks, but not this time' emails." and then proceeded to make sure the IT delivered that marginal increment of service that makes prospective candidates think these people are a cut above the rest.


And I'll actually go beyond the mere thanks for the email for Carly at CMC who rang me, once I had been emailed to say I was not appropriate for a particular role, to discuss other possibilities and then conducted a very professional and thorough but pleasant phone interview lasting forty minutes. That's what I call taking care of business.

Oh... and I had a very nice chat with Natasha of Opus Recruitment too.

But, lest you think I am becoming soft and uncritical in my dotage let me finally attempt a last hurrah by ridiculing Experteer, who will register candidates for free but insist on concealing job information (information which, I am reasonably confident, is probably mostly freely available elsewhere) from the freeloaders, requiring instead a paid subscription.

I also received an email shortly after (pointlessly) registering, which said

Become a Premium Member now. On average, Premium Members receive six times more contact requests from headhunters, in comparison to Basic Members


Why? Because you volunteer 6x more paid for CV's?

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