HRJobVault.com: Jobs Specialization Leads to Website Creativity
Alan Guinn
September 19, 2008
Everything in the world is trending toward specialization. If it´s not food, it´s beverages, or music, or healthcare, or even jobs.
The pacesetter trend in job searches used to be to flood the potential employer´s market with resumes, collecting multiple references and recommendations. Internet job searches with their required targeted market searches by geographical area and job specialty became de rigueur and the standard of expectation. Even professionals like Doctors, Lawyers, Dentists, and Accountants found homes online to seek out new positions and opportunities.
Only one aspect of the search process remained: Where can HR Job Candidates go to find HR jobs? What happens when an employee in Human Resources at one company decides to seek out a new position? Other than the obvious recruiting of personnel by other recruiters, how can this sensitive process be accomplished successfully? Associations of Human Resource Professionals offered job boards—and some were quite successful-- but the fear of an HR Professional always seemed to focus on being discovered "looking outside."
"It´s been a problem for those in HR for some time," says Darryl Hupfer, CEO of Actuate Companies, LLC, and a worldwide Consultant. "When an HR Professional decides they want to move on, or to find a new home, whom should they trust, and how much should they ´push´ to find that new job? Many of the job boards online are reviewed by the same people, over and over, and it´s often not that difficult to determine who has "posted" and who is "looking." Nothing cries ´Red Alert´ to a C-Level incumbent more than discovering his/her Vice President or Director of Human Resources is seeking a job change."
Even less secure may be working with the generally circumspect Executive Recruiter. Linking HR Pros to other HR jobs is sensitive at best. After all, who is their contact? The Human Resources Professionals who might end up being subordinate to the search candidate.
True to the law of Yankee Ingenuity, there is always a solution to the challenge that can be found, however, and HR now has its own specialized arena for job placement with the website www.HRJobVault.com. Pioneered by former Executive Recruiter Heidi Hurt, HRJobVault.com is already receiving resumes—and more important---advertisers.
"We´re thrilled that our advertisers stepped up to the plate and believe in what we´re doing," says Hurt, "and the opportunity to access all types of HR Professionals will allow many organizations, worldwide, to find candidates who previously might have been hesitant to make their interests known. We´re getting all levels of employees—from entry level benefits specialists to Senior Management. It´s a great opportunity for many from different positions to contrast what they currently have with what they, opportunistically, seek."
The website www.HRJobVault.com is now open and available for all candidates in the HR Marketplace—both for those seeking employees and for those seeking employment.
The pacesetter trend in job searches used to be to flood the potential employer´s market with resumes, collecting multiple references and recommendations. Internet job searches with their required targeted market searches by geographical area and job specialty became de rigueur and the standard of expectation. Even professionals like Doctors, Lawyers, Dentists, and Accountants found homes online to seek out new positions and opportunities.
Only one aspect of the search process remained: Where can HR Job Candidates go to find HR jobs? What happens when an employee in Human Resources at one company decides to seek out a new position? Other than the obvious recruiting of personnel by other recruiters, how can this sensitive process be accomplished successfully? Associations of Human Resource Professionals offered job boards—and some were quite successful-- but the fear of an HR Professional always seemed to focus on being discovered "looking outside."
"It´s been a problem for those in HR for some time," says Darryl Hupfer, CEO of Actuate Companies, LLC, and a worldwide Consultant. "When an HR Professional decides they want to move on, or to find a new home, whom should they trust, and how much should they ´push´ to find that new job? Many of the job boards online are reviewed by the same people, over and over, and it´s often not that difficult to determine who has "posted" and who is "looking." Nothing cries ´Red Alert´ to a C-Level incumbent more than discovering his/her Vice President or Director of Human Resources is seeking a job change."
Even less secure may be working with the generally circumspect Executive Recruiter. Linking HR Pros to other HR jobs is sensitive at best. After all, who is their contact? The Human Resources Professionals who might end up being subordinate to the search candidate.
True to the law of Yankee Ingenuity, there is always a solution to the challenge that can be found, however, and HR now has its own specialized arena for job placement with the website www.HRJobVault.com. Pioneered by former Executive Recruiter Heidi Hurt, HRJobVault.com is already receiving resumes—and more important---advertisers.
"We´re thrilled that our advertisers stepped up to the plate and believe in what we´re doing," says Hurt, "and the opportunity to access all types of HR Professionals will allow many organizations, worldwide, to find candidates who previously might have been hesitant to make their interests known. We´re getting all levels of employees—from entry level benefits specialists to Senior Management. It´s a great opportunity for many from different positions to contrast what they currently have with what they, opportunistically, seek."
The website www.HRJobVault.com is now open and available for all candidates in the HR Marketplace—both for those seeking employees and for those seeking employment.
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