For those looking for telecommunications jobs, the growth of specialised jobs boards has proved invaluable. Try applying for telecoms jobs in the mainstream recruitment websites and you will be disappointed with the impersonal nature of the site. We look at how a telecoms jobs board is bucking the trend in providing a decent recruitment solution.
If you were looking for telecoms jobs in Sweden, for example, on the big recruitment sites, you will know how difficult it is get a response from the companies you applied to. This is due to the bucket load of CV companies get from candidates from everywhere. Telcojobs.eu was set up to provide a different and more personal type of service than that from the mainstream sites.
James O'Neill lost his job at Siemens in Germany four months ago due to the credit crunch. He was employed as a project manager and had unsuccessfully used all of the mainstream jobs boards in his quest for a new telecoms career.
It was only when he stumbled upon telcojobs.eu that he found a service that catered for his very needs in an upfront and proactive way.
After 2 weeks he had found his ideal job as a telecoms voip engineer in the UK. "I didn't get the feeling that the larger recruitment boards were listening to me" said Derrick.
Specialised recruitment solutions are appearing now on the net and present a real challenge to the large jobs boards. Eamonn Murray, who owns Telcojobs.eu knows that personal service is the most important part of his business.
"More and more companies are coming to us looking for targeted CVs" says Eamonn. "They have had enough of bulk CVs in their inbox. A company wants a few well targeted CVs and we provide quality telecom jobs CV to the industry".
The demand for specialised recruitment jobs boards has risen markedly in the last 18 months. Now you can find a jobs board solution for almost every niche industry.
The big job sites have recognised this but don't know how to deal with this threat to their business. Some have added live chat modules to their sites but the level of support is still inadequate.
Eamonn Murray believes that Telcojobs will never have this problem as the niche (telecoms jobs) and the market size is limited so the customer care will always be there.