I have a degree in business from an elite school, but I am in a geographic region where there are almost no alumni which has forced me to network in different ways and one of them is the traditional classifieds which I absolutely am repulsed by. I am looking for an entry-level accounting position and having a HELL of a time finding anything decent. I absolutely refuse to deal with recruiters or any firm who choses to use recruiters (sorry, lazy middle management indicates to me a poor workplace from the get-go, if you dont have time to invest in finding quality people, you deserve to have the 10% skimmed off of your salary too.)
This recruiting scam (which is what it is, its a scam which takes away value from both employer and employee) is not limited to IT. It's all over the place, especially in accounting where these staffing agencies and recruiters dominate 95% of all the postings on monster, craigslist, and local job sites.
Monster is the biggest offender only because it's the biggest site. They aren't going to get rid of recruiters as long as recruiters pay them to use their "premium" services.
I have a good degree, I am looking for an entry-level position and I am NOT greedy and would be willing to take a job for substantially less than my university's average first-hire salary if it seemed even remotely interesting and gave me that valuable experience. Why is there not a job site which can fulfil this desire?
My main gripes:
- Get rid of recruiters and headhunters
- Same goes for "professional training" - forget these losers
- More entry-level position
- Descriptions of jobs that are more deep and interesting than "looking for a team player who is motivated and can work independently in a group" "must have good people skills"
- The ability to look at reviews of workplaces - before I send a coverletter and resume I always look at a firm's homepage, google their recent news and look at different company indexes to give me a little gauge of where the firm is, if this was all there in some sort of set rating system that would be nice
- Job titles that aren't confusing - "Jr Accountant, Sr Accountant, Accountant I, II, III, Entry-Level Accountant, Accountant" are all job descriptions I have seen for positions requring anything from 0 - 3 years of work, this makes no sense at all.
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I have a degree in business from an elite school, but I am in a geographic region where there are almost no alumni which has forced me to network in different ways and one of them is the traditional classifieds which I absolutely am repulsed by. I am looking for an entry-level accounting position and having a HELL of a time finding anything decent. I absolutely refuse to deal with recruiters or any firm who choses to use recruiters (sorry, lazy middle management indicates to me a poor workplace from the get-go, if you dont have time to invest in finding quality people, you deserve to have the 10% skimmed off of your salary too.)
This recruiting scam (which is what it is, its a scam which takes away value from both employer and employee) is not limited to IT. It's all over the place, especially in accounting where these staffing agencies and recruiters dominate 95% of all the postings on monster, craigslist, and local job sites.
Monster is the biggest offender only because it's the biggest site. They aren't going to get rid of recruiters as long as recruiters pay them to use their "premium" services.
I have a good degree, I am looking for an entry-level position and I am NOT greedy and would be willing to take a job for substantially less than my university's average first-hire salary if it seemed even remotely interesting and gave me that valuable experience. Why is there not a job site which can fulfil this desire?
My main gripes:
- Get rid of recruiters and headhunters
- Same goes for "professional training" - forget these losers
- More entry-level position
- Descriptions of jobs that are more deep and interesting than "looking for a team player who is motivated and can work independently in a group" "must have good people skills"
- The ability to look at reviews of workplaces - before I send a coverletter and resume I always look at a firm's homepage, google their recent news and look at different company indexes to give me a little gauge of where the firm is, if this was all there in some sort of set rating system that would be nice
- Job titles that aren't confusing - "Jr Accountant, Sr Accountant, Accountant I, II, III, Entry-Level Accountant, Accountant" are all job descriptions I have seen for positions requring anything from 0 - 3 years of work, this makes no sense at all.
Thanks for reading my rant. Cheers.