SEO/SEM Job advertisements - beware!
July 8th, 2007 by Shiva
Beware of job ads such as SEO Analysts, SEO Manager, Director of Search Engine Marketing Manager etc., in any of popular websites. Many start-up companies just post ads to grab attention of real SEO’s as well big employers. It is an easy advertisement for small SEO companies. I did talked with couple of companies which posted in job sites and when I called up - they mentioned there will be no recruitment or no job vacancies in near future. And they keep posting the same job ads weekly once.
Few SEO companies, write on their own blog site that there are plenty of opening, don’t fall for it.
I am talking about few companies that does this. There are lot of legitimate companies that has real SEO jobs, the best way to find them out is to follow the below.
1) Look for which employer is posting that advertisement.
2) Do you see the same job requirement in all states (posted multiple times) and company confidential? - don’t waste time.
3) Google yourself for seo/sem jobs, then visit the company’s website directly. Look for career section and then apply.
4) Sign up in Linked In
5) Search for jobs in Blog Search as well, people from organization might write about job openings in their personal blog.
Cheers,
Shiva
What is the best way to learn about seo for future employment are there real courses out there or are they all fake?
IMO, the only people whom one can rely is google, msn or yahoo. Until otherwise they provide courses or exams not anyone can really grasp it fully. It will be an everchanging efforts on their end too, and as it is their trademark - the best way to learn will be from online and then practicing them. Pagerank0 does that alone and nothing else!