How often do we find ourselves tired and frustrated with our careers, telling our families and friends that “this time it’s final – I’m going to start looking for a new job this coming Monday…”? Still, we don’t do much about it.
Over the years, I found myself and people close to me in this position far too many times, so I decided to do some “soul searching” a couple of years ago and find out once and for all what it would actually take for us to translate words into actions.
The immediate words that come to mind when thinking about finding a new job are “pain” and “frustration” – Let’s admit this, finding a new job is one of the most painful experiences in our professional lives – Spending countless hours in putting our resumes together, searching for potential jobs online, talking to recruiters that either have no clue what it is we do and want to do or just don’t care. We also go on a myriad of interviews, answering the same old questions just to find out that (a) we are not really interested in the job being offered, or (b) employers have no comprehension of the type of the person they are looking for. On top of this, we fear that our employer would find out and react negatively to us looking for other career opportunities.
These are quite weighty reasons to avoid looking for new positions, and there’s nothing we can do to change it, or is there....
Well, having the mentality that anything is possible, I began brainstorming with a colleague of mine as to what it would take to entice people like us who are not satisfied with their careers, to pursue different career opportunities. After several months of researching this issue and discussing it with various business and HR professionals, we finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel: “An online recruiting service that will allow us to apply for jobs anonymously and without a resume, and will learn about and process our qualifications and interests on an ongoing basis so that we would only get invitations to apply for the positions that we may be interested in and qualified to pursue. Also, this service will enable candidates and hiring managers to directly and discretely connect with each other so that candidates can find out more about any given position, and hiring managers can fill in any missing blanks about candidates, all before having to go for any interviews, and without revealing candidates’ identities”.
Have no Fear-Scopings is Here
Excited about our findings, and having the right technological background, we sat down and began planning the answer to our prayers, an online recruiting service that will help us painlessly find our next career opportunity, which we ultimately called Scopings. A description of Scopings is beyond the scope of this article, so I will leave it for another article to be written in the weeks to come.
I’m sure that many of you have your own perspectives on the challenges and issues with the job market today, so I would love to hear your thoughts…
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Gil Shabat is the co-founder of Scopings, a new online recruiting service that puts heavy weight on the needs of employed professionals looking to advance their careers. You can visit the Scopings website under www.scopings.com
