This may come as a surprise to most job seekers, but the traditional job sites are not working in their interest. These sites charge employers hundreds of dollars to post want ads, but not all organizations can afford them. Their aim is get massive traffic, which means increased competition for the job seeker. Recruiter presence on these sites again harms the job seeker's interests. What job seekers need to know is that there are 40,000 job sites on the web. EmploymentCrossing researches every single job from every single source possible -including other job sites-and compiles them all in one place. Read more about how your career is being harmed if you are depending on the usual job boards and what you can do to fix it.

1. The Five “Big Dirty Secrets” of Job Sites

2. BIG DIRTY SECRET #1: “We Will Only Show You Jobs that Employers Pay Us Hundreds of Dollars to Post” Just about every job site out there will show you jobs that employers pay hundreds of dollars to post on their site: Unless an employer is willing to pay, you are not going to see a job on the website. www.employmentcrossing.com 1

3. How This “Big Dirty Secret” Hurts You: Some job sites charge more than $500 for a single job posting. Think about this for a minute: If a job board is only posting positions for companies that are paying to post their jobs there, how many positions do you think the job board is going to have? This places you at the whim of the job board’s marketing plan and employers’ willingness to pay to post ads on a particular site. www.employmentcrossing.com 2

4. How We Fight This Threat to Your Career: EmploymentCrossing does not charge employers to post jobs. In fact, we are a research company and not a "job advertisement sales company." We have hundreds of full-time employees researching jobs from every source we can find (other job sites, employer career pages, newspapers, association and government websites-and more) and putting the jobs on our site at no cost. Each week we aggressively contact every employer in the nation we can find, asking them to post their jobs (at no cost) on our site. www.employmentcrossing.com 4

5. BIG DIRTY SECRET #2: “We Have Less than 1% of the Available Jobs in the Market On Our Site” Most job sites offer less than 1% of the jobs available in the market. Virtually every career site is only showing you an extremely small slice of the available jobs. www.employmentcrossing.com 5

7. On 40,000+ different job boards

8. On 100,000+ employer career pages

9. On city, county, state, and federal government websites

10. On nonprofit organization websites

11. On the websites of small and large newspapersThis is where all the jobs are-not on most of the career sites you have heard of but in hundreds of thousands of different places waiting to be found. If you are currently looking for a job you are probably missing and will never be aware of 95% to 99% of the jobs you are qualified for. Not only will you not apply to them ... you will never even know they are there. You may never become aware of them because they can only be found in places you may not even know exist. www.employmentcrossing.com 3 5

13. getting the best job

14. getting more interviews

15. getting a job close to homewww.employmentcrossing.com 6

17. getting a job with a higher salary

18. getting a job with better benefits

19. getting a job with a more stable organization

20. getting a job where you have a future

21. getting a job where you like the people you will be working with

22. getting a job that makes the best use of your skills

23. getting a job that allows you to positively influence the world

24. getting a job where you will receive positive praise from others

25. getting a job where you will get to spend more time with your family

26. getting a job where you will have more time to take vacations

27. getting a job where you can be youThe list goes on and on. The name of the game is finding the best opportunities and having access to the most opportunities. The more information you know the better off you are going to be. www.employmentcrossing.com 7

28. BIG DIRTY SECRET #3: “We Don’t Care if You Get a Job; Our Objective Is to Get as Many Applicants as Possible to the Jobs on Our Site” Most job sites work for employers, not you. Because they work for employers, their loyalty is to employers, not you. Most job boards are motivated to drive as many applicants as possible to each job. A job on Monster.com, for example, may receive more than 1,000 applicants. www.employmentcrossing.com 8

30. They advertise on the Super Bowl

31. They advertise on bus

32. They advertise on airplane banners

33. The advertise on subways

34. They advertise on the radiowww.employmentcrossing.com 9

36. They advertise in magazines

37. They follow you around the Internet with banner ads

38. They advertise in sports stadiumswww.employmentcrossing.com 10

39. How This “Big Dirty Secret” Hurts You: Anyone with an Internet connection can apply for a job on most job sites. Accordingly, employers are often overwhelmed with applications when they post jobs on public job sites-and this makes it much more difficult for you to stand out. In fact, once a job makes it to a public job site you are going to face massive competition and slim odds of getting the job. How We Fight This Threat to Your Career: We are a research company. We spend our time and effort researching jobs-and we find jobs from a myriad of sources you would likely not find independently. For example, we find jobs in small local publications, on association websites that do not receive a lot of traffic-and many similar sources. Our expertise is researching jobs-and a great deal of our research is into sources that few people know about. That means, when you apply to many of our jobs, you will not have a lot of competition. Most important, to apply for positions on EmploymentCrossing, we require that people be subscribers to our website. Only paying members can see our job-opening research. www.employmentcrossing.com 11

41. By limiting the number of people looking at our jobs, we are able to keep the number of people applying to jobs on our site down.

42. By keeping the number of applications down, we make it much easier for you to find a job. Sometimes what seems to be the downside to a particular method turns out, in reality, to be the upside. While a subscription to EmploymentCrossing does require a job seeker to pay a small monthly fee, it is that very drawback that makes EmploymentCrossing an effective and worthwhile investment. The research work we do for job seekers is not cheap. Imagine investing thousands of hours a day researching jobs yourself. Needless to say, that would be impossible. We take our membership fees and apply them to doing research on the market in order to find jobs. People who have never experienced EmploymentCrossing often say, "I do not believe in paying to find a job." However, what these people fail to realize is what they are indirectly implying: www.employmentcrossing.com 12

44. "I want to only see a few jobs at a time and not every job in the market…"

45. "I do not believe in research…"

46. "My time is not valuable, and I want to take my chances with public job boards…"Your time is valuable, and likewise, the amount of work and money that we put into researching jobs for you is staggering. EmploymentCrossing lists tens of thousands of opportunities that you will not see elsewhere. And here's the key to the success of EmploymentCrossing: we work for the job seeker, not employers. We get the maximum number of job listings possible for our subscribers, including jobs not advertised elsewhere. And then, we limit who can search for jobs on EmploymentCrossing. At EmploymentCrossing, it is easier to find a job because, simply put, there is often less competition for our listings than those posted elsewhere. Not only do our researchers find jobs not posted anywhere else, but about 95% of job seekers are weeded out because they do not wish to pay a fee for membership. www.employmentcrossing.com 13

47. BIG DIRTY SECRET #4: “Most of Our Jobs Are Recruiter Jobs” Most jobs on employment websites are recruiter jobs. Recruiters and job sites typically have very "tight" relationships because recruiters are generally always looking for talent for multiple employers at one time. Consequently, most job sites contain mainly advertisements from recruiters. www.employmentcrossing.com 14

49. Most recruiting firms also charge fees to employers if they hire you (which may be as much as 40% of your annual salary). If you are an outstanding candidate, this will not hurt you-but if you are not, it could.

50. If the recruiter has a bad reputation, he or she might even make it more difficult for you to get a job with the employer because the employer may view resumes from the recruiter in a negative light.

51. You also have no way of knowing if the recruiter job is for real. Many recruiters have the reputation of placing advertisements on job sites to just "fish" for resumes. That means you are wasting your time on a job that doesn't exist.www.employmentcrossing.com 15

52. So when you use sites that are comprised primarily of recruiter jobs, you don't have access to most job opportunities, and, in effect, limit your options significantly. Yes, this is crazy, but this is how it is most often done. How We Fight This Threat to Your Career: The vast majority of our positions come directly from employer websites (more than 40,000 employer job sites). In fact, we have more than 1 million jobs direct from employer websites. This is more jobs than on virtually every other job site out there-and more direct-from-employer jobs than you will find anywhere. Most of the employers listed on our site will believe you were interested in their companies enough to go to their websites (without EmploymentCrossing) and find advertised openings in human resources. They will be flattered. This will assist you massively and makes a huge difference. www.employmentcrossing.com 16

53. BIG DIRTY SECRET #5: “There Are More Than 40,000 Job Sites Out There Just Like Us” You can find more than 40,000 job boards on the Internet. That means that employers are posting their jobs on more than 40,000 separate job boards. www.employmentcrossing.com 17

54. How This “Big Dirty Secret” Hurts You: Finding the job you are looking for is like searching for a needle in a haystack-it could be on any one of 40,000 different job boards. In order to be aware of all the jobs, you would need to go out and look at all 40,000+ job boards out there. How We Fight This Threat to Your Career: We research every single job we can find from every single source we can-including other job sites-and compile them all in one place. This gives you access to jobs that people who do not use our site simply do not know are there and you don't have to search more than 40,000 job boards to find them. www.employmentcrossing.com 18