Saturday, March 20, 2010

Honolulu Jobs

When you apply to jobs on most job sites, you are typically going to be applying for "honolulu hawaii jobs" posted by recruiters more often than not. This means you are applying to work with the recruiter who will then decide if they are going to help you to apply to the employers. Recruiters make their money by acting as middlemen. It is in a recruiter's best interest for you to apply to jobs through them because if you do an employer will pay them between 25% and 50% of your annual salary if you take the job through them.

Hound eliminates the role of the middleman (i.e., the recruiter) completely. When you reply to a job posting on the average job board, not only are you in competition with multitudes of applicants, but often times you are not even applying to the position that is advertised and you are, instead, applying to potentially work with a recruiting firm.
Most companies post their job openings on their own company websites and often wait months before ever experimenting with posting these openings on large job boards or hiring recruiters to help fill these "honolulu star bulletin" jobs. Because most job boards charge upwards of $300 (and in some cases more than $500) to advertise a single job on their site and recruiters may charge up to 50% of your annual salary if an employer hires you through them, most companies prefer to fill their jobs by posting them on their own website before taking other actions. Further, with upwards of 1,000 applicants per job listed on the Big Boards it allows hiring managers to avoid being inundated by "resume smog."1

Hound finds jobs on the employer websites and aggregates them in one convenient location. In order to find the best job out there for you, you need to have access to all of the "honolulu newspaper" jobs.

While in theory you could do all the research yourself and locate jobs listed on individual company sites, it would require an incredible amount of man-hours. So incredible that it would be humanly impossible for one individual to do so on her own. To maintain current information on all the "honolulu advertiser" jobs out there, in other words, to maintain a database rivaling ours at Hound, you would need millions of dollars and the strength of 40 + people, working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I'm sure most people don't have those resources, and if you do, you probably don't need a job.

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