My learnings from global job search in the telco industry

First I was googeling my situation with different search strings like: "telecom job boards" and "telecom recruiting". This way a number of job databases were identified. Some were specialized in a line of business others in a geographical area.
The next much more time consuming thing was to find out which ones were the most efficient ones. To find out about that I needed to use the job sites for some time. This included setting up a profile, moitoring the number and relevance of the job postings...

I used search agents focusing on jobs and the telecom industry to keep up to date.
To keep up to date on the job market I set up search agents at the relevant job sites. Monster has a very good agent function, and here I defined that I was interested in these types of jobs:...

The 5 search agents that I had set up resulted in daily e-mails with job postings.
Having gone through them I sent applications to the most relevant ones. Most of the jobs that I was applying for had a recruiting firm in between. So normally the company would not be known, and the first challenge was to get noticed by the recruiter...

Most recruiting firms have candidate databases with profiles of people in the job market. Recruiting firms will normally check their profile databases first when they work on a recruiting project. In order to be a part of this first round I was registered...