RE: Two Job PostingTrends

[Allison Clements <Allison_Clements -at- advantagepayroll -dot- com>]

Bruce Byfield wrote:

>Over the last couple of months, I've noticed two new trends in 
>job-posting in the Vancouver area:

>- on-line application forms: 14 months ago, these barely existed. Now, a 
>growing number of companies are using them. I suspect that they are used 
>to weed out casual applications, since they require more effort than an 
>e-mail with an attachment. Also, answers on the form can be directly fed 
>into a database, and the possibility of a virus in the attachment is 
>eliminated.

The last serious job search I did was summer 2000.  Many of the larger 
companies had the online application (Maine, US).  One in particular - 
a well known semiconductor company would ONLY accept resumes using 
their application format.  The format was somewhat limiting, however 
they suggested putting any additional information in a cover letter 
pasted in the body of an email to HR.   

Most companies seem to have very rigid resume submission guidelines.  
The local college career center wasn't even up to date on these new 
acceptable formats.  I did most of my research on .txt cover letters 
and resumes on monster.com and others.  Monster.com wasn't the best 
site, but it's the one I remember...

Regards,

Allison

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