Finding the perfect job can be a daunting task, especially when some employers don’t list all their vacancies on job boards, says recruitment expert Lee Harding.
With nearly two decades of experience in recruitment and talent acquisition, he explains that platforms like LinkedIn, Monster, and Total Jobs are “crazy expensive” to advertise with.
“Most companies will advertise those jobs on their own careers websites, however,” he clarified in an instructional video on TikTok. He then shared a handy trick using Google to locate all the jobs on these sites based on your location.
Demonstrating how it works, Lee showed his screen as he entered a “search string” to find opportunities listed by recruiting software platform iCIMS. To do this, he typed the following into Google: site:icims.com “marketing manager” “London”.
This brought up all the roles in London listed on the iCIMS website. “This technique works for most ATSs (Applicant Tracking Systems) and careers websites,” Lee added, before listing the most common ones.
He advised replacing ‘London’ with your preferred location, and ‘marketing manager’ with the job role you’re seeking. Lee closed with a tip: “That way you will find jobs that are advertised on careers websites, but not necessarily advertised on the popular job boards.”
His advice was met with gratitude from his followers, with one responding: “This is so helpful! Some of the best jobs are not posted on the more expensive job boards!” Another commented, stating they were on the lookout for work: “I am currently on the hunt for Data Entry work, will definitely give this search string a try. Cheers.”
A third praised Lee for the assistance: “This is extremely useful. Thank you very much.” Meanwhile, a fourth simply hailed: “What a great person. This is brilliant. Thank you.”
On his own website, Lee shares some insights into his career journey in recruitment “I’d finished university, didn’t know what I wanted to do and found myself starting in the world of recruitment,” he explains. “I started agency side, was pretty good at it, but I hated it. So I left.”
“After pottering around doing a few recruitment marketing and tech roles, I co-founded a recruitment tech business, where we raised over £1m in funding and scaled the business. Six years later and feeling burned out, I made the move inhouse. Since then I’ve built and lead talent acquisition teams and helped companies solve hiring challenges all over the world.”