KARLA PORTER

Some­times I feel like the National Enquirer® has cap­tured the essence of human­ity and peo­ple thrive on sen­sa­tion­al­ism because it’s excit­ing and sexy.

My per­son­al­ity type doesn’t appre­ci­ate the drama so many oth­ers seem to live for. So, when I hear melo­dra­matic state­ments like HR is Dead and Job Boards Are Dead they affect me as much as Jesus in Pizza Sauce in NEPA.

How­ever, while watch­ing the video — kind of using it as a vehi­cle for med­i­ta­tion, a job board acronym was revealed to me.

Job Oppor­tu­nity Bottle-necked Beyond Our Abil­ity to Reach it Directly

They’re not dead per se… maybe a lit­tle like stale pizza crust though, and most job boards are filled with scam bam thank you ma’am junk. You don’t know who is behind the post­ings and you don’t know if they are even real.

What is a job seeker to do? Well… net­work with com­pany representatives/vendors via LinkedIn and niche ning sites, fol­low my list of Twit­ter HR/Recruiters, let all your friends and con­tacts know you are search­ing (and attach a resume to that email), go to net­work­ing events, painfully take the time to visit com­pany web­site employ­ment pages.. those are all things to do.

Or, you could check out LINKUP.

All of our jobs come directly from com­pany web­sites. Almost any com­pany, big or small, that has a career sec­tion on their web­site can be found on LinkUp. Cur­rently, we have over 20,625 com­pa­nies in our data­base that we mon­i­tor every night. Com­pa­nies range in size from the largest to the small­est, and from all loca­tions across the United States.

LINKUP goes qui­etly in the night like Santa’s lit­tle elves out into cyber­space vis­it­ing com­pany web­site job boards and gifts the aggre­gated results to the United States of America.

Com­pany job boards are still fresh.…. If you are a Cor­po­rate Recruiter be sure to see if your company’s post­ings are on LINKUP.

P.S. If you are a non-profit check out the March 2010 pro­mo­tion for all ser­vices FREE.

Note: My per­son­al­ity type is INTP in case you weren’t going to be able to sleep tonight with­out knowing.