This is a post courtesy of Mike S., a friend of the blog whom we asked to share his story of job hunting in our industry. Thanks, Mike!
When I started my job search within the Business Intelligence arena I felt overwhelmed and didn’t know where to begin. Do I search the newspaper listings? Do I put my resume on big job boards, niche job boards, or talk to a recruiter? I realized quickly that I needed help. Luckily a friend of mine, Randy, mentioned Jobfox and asked me if I had built my Jobfox profile and career page. I wasn’t familiar with Jobfox, so I did a quick Google search to find out more. To my surprise, I saw several claims that Jobfox was a scam, so I called Randy to ask more questions about the service.
Randy was heavily into social networking, blogging, tweeting, etc. so I knew he would be well-versed in the online world. His comments about Jobfox were extremely positive and he said Jobfox could help me build a professional looking website, profile, and even help me write a professional resume if I was interested. I asked Randy if he was familiar with the Jobfox scam “claims” and he said no, his experience with Jobfox was great so I began building my profile that very day.
After going through the profile process I was immediately impressed with how my Jobfox Break Through page was laid out. It not only gave me tools to help me shorten the job seeking process but it also gave me a long list of companies I matched to based on my experience and skills. I was matching to business intelligence jobs for companies like Booz Allen Hamilton and IBM and I was very pleased how it identified companies I would have never thought of that I was a good fit for, such as Serco or First Data Corporation. It would have taken me days or weeks to identify this many companies that are hiring for BI jobs, yet Jobfox identified several pages instantly. I also liked how I could see companies that recently tweeted jobs I might be interested in.
The 30 minutes it took me to fill out my Jobfox profile has saved me days of work. Not only did it save me countless hours, but I also have 4 job interviews lined up in the business intelligence arena over the next two weeks! I’ve been so impressed with the experience that I’ve also inquired about the resume writing service. If I decide to move forward with having my resume professionally written, I’ll follow up with another message about that experience.
I’m not sure why a handful of candidates have written about or claimed that Jobfox is a scam because so far my experience has been nothing short of great. Thanks Randy! I saw another very similar story to mine on the MDMblog. If you know BI, you are probably familiar with Master Data Management as well. Be sure to checkout a similar Jobfox scam experience here.
More to come…