HOW TO LOCATE AND EVALUATE THE RESOURCES

FOR EMPLOYMENT RELATED PURPOSES.

Amelia Ghibu - 21912954

Lecturer: Harpreet Kaur
 Introduction
Some days you need to be a carpenter to build a door,
some days, just an average person cutting a window of
opportunity in the middle.
Nevertheless, either you are a hard worker looking for a
job, or a leader searching for employees, the following
presentation will provide you ways about how to locate
and evaluate resources in virtual world.
Three different resources will be presented in details,
with some of their advantages and disadvantages.
 LinkedIn
• Founded in 2003, LinkedIn is the largest social
network targeting the professionals in searching for a
career or partners in their business.
• In 2020, the network has over 600 million members
globaly and is permanently increasing (Lunden,
2019).
• Their mission is simple, bring all professionals in one
place and make them productive and successful
(LinkedIn Corporation, 2020)
 LinkedIn
Advantages Disadvantages
• Having such a vast data storage, many • All information provided is free for others to see,
companies look for future employees on that means the site lacks privacy. You need to
Linkedin. With the right resume, one could take care of any detail that has to remain
find the perfect job (Doyle, 2019). personal (Dontigney, 2020).
• The platform helps people on the same area • To gain access to detailed features, you have to
of expertise to find partners and exchange pay - send mail or messages to another
information, and not necessary looking for a member, for example, and premium accounts
place to work (Doyle, 2019). are not cheap (Marko, 2019).
• It is free to log in and upload your data and • It is not ideal for young people without
free to leave (Doyle, 2019). experience. The platform addresses first to
• As an employer, you can find the exact professionals and a weak profile can be easily
person you are looking for, even if that left aside (Marko, 2019).
someone is not looking for a job at that point. • Related to the last point, as we talk about
With a good offer, you can hire the person professionals, the number of people you can
you need (Watson, 2018). find on Linkedin is limited. On other platforms
might be less experienced persons, but more
fitted for your purpose, especially when you
want persons to train yourself in the company
style.
 Escape the City
In their desire of creating a new platform for people to find the
job or business they have been dreaming of, founders Rob and
Dom came up in 2010 with Escape the City.
The online community is estimated at 300.000 members who
thought life is too short to do tasks you do not love and signed
up for this different movement.
As the owners said, their mission is to liberate people from old
corporate drudgery into a passionate, autonomous, and fulfilling
world (escapethecity, 2020).
Escape the City
Advantages Disadvantages
• The website is user friendly and provides • Although young people are more inclined
all information you need, either you are in to change jobs quickly and more
searching for a job or business receptive when it comes to novelties, the
opportunity. adult population is more reluctant, the
• The platform has a startup accelerator – site losing some of potential users.
a 3 months part time course – for those • All online platform attract bad candidates.
who want to set up a company. In this case, people might join the
• The Career Change Accelerator is community just for fun and provide false
another 3 months part time course for details. That could lead to another
people trying to change their career. disadvantage:
• Escape the City allows you to find jobs • Waste of time for employers who need to
worldwide, not only in the country you read hundreds of letters for each job they
live (escapethecity, 2020). posted.
• As a candidate, you may be forced to pay
for extra exposure in order to highlight
your resume (Phillpott, 2019).
 Indeed
According to their website, Indeed is the first job site in
the world. It has over 250 million unique visitors every
month, 150 milion CVs, 10 jobs added per second
worldwide (indeed, 2020).
Their mission is to offer jobs to as many people as
possible, and for that, Indeed became the first
aggregated search engine for any job you can find online
(Ansari, 2018).
 Indeed
Advantages Disadvantages
• As an employer, you can sign up and post your • Being just a search engine, the website
job for free. The platform is easy to navigate, lacks a good design and the human
you just have to follow the shown steps. approach. It offers you the information but
• In order for the job seekers to see details about in a dry, impersonal way (Edwards, 2016).
your company, you can upload photos, • Due to the same fact related above, users
showcase your jobs, respond to reviews and may find themselves constantly being
load as many information you want. redirected towards other search platforms
• The platform is designed to work both on to start applying and this might be
computers and smartphones. You can search, annoying.
upload/download information while you are • You can’t find career advice, examples of
outside your house, sparing time (Ansari, 2018). resume, articles that could help you as an
• It manages a large number of applications in a employee (Kerns, 2019).
consistent way and makes the responses easily • Lack of details can lead to job seekers to
to feedback (randstad, 2019). apply for the wrong position, wasting time
for both sides.
Conclusions
Ever since the internet became a constant and undeniable tool
among us, people have used it for making their life easier.
Searching for a job is no facile when you have to take into
consideration your skills, experience, time, and competition.
Websites like LinkedIn, Escape the City, and Indeed provided
advantages and disadvantages they have, letting us choose the
right one according to our needs.
In addition, I would say that no matter the platform you select,
you have to carefully go toward a job you really like to do.
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