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August 2000 Page 5 Recruiting Internet Lots of Qualified Candidates In til LL.S mil mssm I realize I made a terri- ble mistake leaving my MIDI PUB es in the newspaper and visits the College of Lake County and the Kenosha Job prices have been rising, Feen said. At headhunter.net, ads are sorted according to how employer of eight years recently and taking a new job. I did not like the work I was doing and had to find something else. The people running this new company don't know what they are doing, and co-workers only do the minimum to get by. I could stay and have a secure job but what if the company goes to pot? Is it too late to go back to my old job? Safe but Sorry i The mistake you made i was to take a new job to By David Andrews Copley News Service These days, Stuart Feen does all his recruiting over the Internet.

At 8 a.m., he places an advertisement at one of the top job Web sites monster.com, jobs.com, headhunter.net and within a half-hour, the responses start rolling in. For Feen, president of Plastic Bottle the price, efficiency and pool of customers who browse those job sites make using it a no-brainer. Dozens of Internet sites are vying to be the top choice for Web-sawy employers and job seekers. They offer a convenient place for companies to place ads and review resumes, and for job seekers to post resumes and respond to ads. Using such sites has become a staple of any employer's search for qualified candidates.

With a tight job market, more employers are finding the sites reach more potential employees and offer more bang for your buck. Unlike Feen, most employers use Internet sites as just one of many tools much moneys the company is willing to pay, encouraging bidding wars to have your company's name pop up first on a search. For job seekers, the Internet has hardly overtaken other paths in the job hunt, but it has become a prime factor. Sarah Ewald of the Illinois Employment and Training Center in Kenosha, Wis. But the Internet definitely has its advantages, Jackson said.

With a Web ad, he can be more specific about the candidate he is looking for and provide more information about the job. But all those perks don't necessarily provide an advantage if your competition -3d? nix "y-H I if "-i get away from a bad one. So first, be clear about how you ended up where you are. And don't make the same error by going back to something that wasn't right. Think about what was and wasn't a good fit in your last position.

If you liked the firm but your day-to-day work was boring, would you be happy there in a different position? It's not farfetched to approach the company about coming back. In fact, 90 percent of executives said they would gladly roll out the welcome mat for a valued former employee who left in good standing, according to a Robert Half International survey. But even with a new job, if the old place isn't where you want to be, don't go backwards. You could end up safe with the devil you know, but just as sorry. Learn your lesson and look for a situation that you want, not just one that gets you away from what you dislike.

is doing the for seeking out potential employees. At Account temps in Gurnee, which employs 30 to 40 temporary employees a month for the accounting and finance fields, recruiting includes all the traditional methods. In addition to advertising on Web sites including monster.com, on the web monster.com careerpath.com careermosaic.com jobs.com headhunter.net dice.com careerbuilder.com careerhunters.com hotjobs.com jobsourcenetwork.com same. To recruiter Tina Gallup, the Internet has simply raised the stakes because potential employees now have scores of detailed ads to browse through on the Internet on nearly as many sites. "I don't think the Internet has made it easier" said Gallup, who does hiring for VisionTek in Gurnee.

"It has actually Center said she encourages job seekers to use all methods of job seeking. She said many top jobs are never advertised and are filled by word of mouth. To get such a job, prospective employees need to network, attend job fairs and get to know people in the field. But with the Internet, job hunters can easily hone in on jobs they want, narrowing their search to any location throughout the country and specifying what type of job they are seeking. And in addition to getting a newspaper to search through classifieds, a job seeker can look up the classifieds on a newspaper's Web site.

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