When Job Hunting Online, Ignore the Date Posted

I've written about this before but it bears repeating every few months.

What is with job seeker's hesitancy to apply to jobs more than a week or two old? If a job is not "fresh" to them they tend to stop applying. Last month I posted a job on one of my job boards looking for a part-time assistant. I got several resumes the first few days and then it trailed off to nothing. When I "refreshed" the date yesterday I got 6 new resumes.

What job seekers don't realize however is that a company's hiring process is typically a long drawn out process. It may take them weeks before they even start interviewing. Just because a job listing is two weeks old DOES NOT mean the employer received all the resumes they needed. In fact, just the opposite may have occurred. Sometimes a job just doesn't pull in enough resumes at the start. Then as it gets pushed down in the job board listings it gets less and less applicants.

The moral of this story is this --- ALWAYS APPLY! No matter how old the job may seem, you just don't know if the ad attracted enough quality resumes.