[Full disclosure: I work for Indeed.com, a job search engine.] On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Group, > > Good morning everybody. I currently have a position for a Jr. Systems > Administrator available in the Northern Virginia area (I've already sent out > an email to the group about it last week) and have been having difficulty > locating qualified and motivated candidates. > > The position will pay 50-65k depending on experience and is fairly entry > level so I don't feel the wages are a hindrance to finding candidates. > However, I've only managed to receive a limited number of resumes so far, > almost entirely from people who would not be a good fit the position. > > Would some of you with hiring experience share what has worked for you? I've > posted the position on reddit.com/r/sysadmin jobs a couple times in addition > to using mailing lists, all without any success. > > I realize using a recruiter may be what becomes necessary but I'd rather use > that money in my budget to pay for a better qualified candidate rather than > having that money go to a recruiter if at all possible.
Have you considered that maybe you're just marketing your job in the wrong locations or to the wrong people? Reddit may be great, but you may not necessarily be advertising your job to all the right people in Herndon (or even advertising it in that area at all). Consider that potential junior system administrators in Herndon (and surrounding areas) may not be looking at reddit for a new job; they're more likely using a job board, job search engine, or services like LinkedIn. Just as an aside: I did a search on our site to see if your job listing had popped up on any public website or through any other search engine and job board. I could not pick it out (even using some of the specific phrasing in the posting you recently made to the mailing list). So it's hard to say whether you're hitting your target demographic or not. Travis -- Travis Campbell [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
