A New Breed of Job Profiles
Have you ever wondered how employers achieve the job profile they post on the many job-hunting sites out there? Of course it is the product of condensing the duties of the job into about 100 words or less, but this has been an ongoing project since newspapers began offering the “classifieds” over 100 years ago. Job profiles at that time had to be even further condensed to fit within the tiny margin of space the newspaper left open for the company. Since this point, we have evolved so that most employers will offer a satisfactory description of the job, but we have additionally evolved so that descriptions have become increasingly vague in order to entrap job seekers to apply for a job that prides itself on the “spectacle” of the advertisement.
Job profiles on job hunting sites should be taken with a grain of salt due to the mass influx of recent graduates that hound over these sites daily. It is no fun being unemployed, but the advantage of unemployment is the mounds of free time you have to spend browsing over multiple job profile sites, craigslist, and online newspapers. The internet has presented a new challenge to job seekers that did not exist in the days of simply ads in newspapers: companies now prey on the inexperience of recent college graduates and try to attract them into a position with words like “fun atmosphere”, “work with fortune 500 companies”, etc. Many of these jobs may in fact work well with your type of personality, but are rarely ever a long-term position. They are mostly pyramid-schemes that need tons of entry-level graduates to sell a certain product, with promises of quickly moving up into the program. The only problem with this job profile is that it does not mention this simple fact of the job, but only says the job involves marketing and working in a “fun environment!”
Job profiles should therefore be scrutinized before you even make a commitment to attend an interview. Google the company name, and if you cannot get a feel for what they market, produce, or anything about the company, you may want to pass on the interview. These types of companies do not scam new graduates by any means, but simply serve to waste their time through the extensive interview process. They continue to attract new interviewees due to the job profiles they advertise and their vague websites. While these companies do hire many people who enjoy this type of “marketing” venture before they settle into a regular job, many others walk away disgruntled with the entire process and the sneaky way the company roped them in. Not all job profiles for entry level workers involve such conniving techniques, but just be on the lookout for these advertisements when looking for an entry-level position.
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