Diversifying Your Job Posting

By: Chris Lindholm
Director

While most Federal contractors find time to reach out to the standard websites such as Monster or Dice.com in order to post jobs and find qualified applicants, it has now become very important for those same contractors to diversify their search and use lesser known resources to find not only qualified, but valuable employment candidates. While the primary motivation for any employer should be to find the best candidate, there is additional motivation to seek out options that allow a more diverse candidate pool to apply for a job. The Department of Labor is dramatically ramping up efforts through OFCCP audits to ensure that contractors are not just posting jobs to diverse sites, but that the contractor is tracking the results of those efforts. A token effort to post jobs on the non-mainstream sites is no longer good enough. Real efforts to post and track response rates at sites for Disabled and Veterans is being scrutinized heavily, so employers need to begin utilizing sites such as the ones cited below. They are organized and easy to use.

http://www.disaboomjobs.com

http://www.gettinghired.com

http://www.ccienterprises.org

http://www.earnworks.com/

Contractors can use Google and other search engines to find a site that will fit the needs of employers nationwide.