20-Year Prospect
No worries, you'll still have a job twenty years from now. Without you, oh matchmaker, how will potential employees and potential employers ever make a match?
They sure aren't going to do it via the Internet. In fact, this is one area where technology has completely and utterly failed to make a process more effective. The applicant tracking systems so many companies rely on to recruit employees simply aren't up to the task of looking beyond their programming. Because the software is so bad, thousands – dare we say millions? – of qualified people looking for jobs can't even get interviews with actual human beings.
You – if you're good at your job – are a better bet for employers seeking out the very best of minions. Look at Google, for example. This company is the unicorn of employers for every tech person on the planet: Around two million people apply to work at Google every year...but, in 2012, only 8,000 lucky souls got hired.
A key part of separating those 8,000 out from the two million were the Google recruiters: About 300 full-time recruiters work for the company in the United States, with an additional 500 to 600 on six-month contracts.
Employers in the know aren't going to post job descriptions on the Internet for everyone to see. Rather, they'll turn to you to search the Web for the very best in prospective employees...now and in the future.