Most economists believe the economy will begin generating jobs within the next few months. Revised figures showed that the economy added 4,000 jobs in November — the first month of job gains since the recession began.
The economy has been growing since the middle of 2009, and the fact that job losses have continued for so long points to a tepid recovery in the labor market according to many analysts. Economists augur the unemployment rate to fall to between 9.3% and 9.7% from November’s rate of 10%.
If you are one of the millions of unemployed workers, finding a job in the current tough economic times is no easy task. The good news is that many new job search engines now offer advanced features to make your job search easier. All of these job search engines offer unique features and can streamline your job search efforts.
Job Search Engines:
Unlike many of the popular job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, etc, these search engines spider companies job sites, career boards, social networking sites and the web on a regular basis and provide you with a list of results. Most job search engines provide advanced search features such as job alert, advanced filters, employment trends, etc.
- Indeed:
The search engine is a privately held company founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, with investors including The New York Times. To search for jobs, simply type keywords into the ‘What’ box describing the kind of job you want, and enter a city, state/province or zip/postal code in the ‘Where’ box. Then click the ‘Find Jobs’ button or hit the Enter key on your keyboard.
After you run a search, you will be presented with a list of jobs sorted by relevance. When you click on a job title, you will be taken to the original job posting and you can apply to the job directly from there.
With each listing, Indeed allows you to save the job in your Indeed account for future reference. By clicking on the “more” link, a menu will expand with link to additional jobs by the company, link to additional company information, a link to Google or Bing to conduct additional research on the job and a link to their profile page on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Indeed offers a discussion forum where you can find a lot of interesting information about companies such as benefits, salaries, culture, etc. The company profile page will provide you with a lot of other information that can help you with your job search. For example, if you look at Procter & Gamble information page, you will find that in addition to Cincinnati, the company has jobs open in Boston, New York, Cayey in Portland.
Indeed advanced salary research tool is based on an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. Unlike many other salary research tools which are based on job title only, Indeed Salary Search lets you search using any mix of skills, keywords or job titles to give you the median salary of all jobs matching your query. Also, the tool shows you what current job openings are paying – which is what matters if you are in the job market and good at predicting new kind of jobs.
Indeed salary trend for social networking job in Seattle vs San Francisco
Indeed allows you to setup multiple alerts to notify you of job postings via email. You can also use one of their plugins or tools to help your with your job search.
Indeed is a very robust and useful search engine and can save you a lot of time when looking for your next job.
- Simply Hired:
Simply Hired is simple yet effective in finding your next job. Describe the kind of job you want and the location, and Simply Hired will search its large database of jobs collected from career boards and companies job site and present you with a listing in your location sorted by relevance. Simply Hired allows you to refine your search by company, location, distance, job type (full time, part time, contract, etc), company size, source, date posted and many more.
When you click on a listing, you will be taken to the original job post and you can apply to the job directly from there.
Simply Hired provides a salary research tool. The tool uses salary data collected from the millions of jobs indexed in their database. Unlike Indeed salary tool, Simply Hired salary tool seem to be based on title and historical data.
Simply Hired also provides detailed local and national employment trends. With employment trends you can compare the frequency of job titles, companies, skills and industries in the US employment market.
Just like Indeed, Simply Hired allows you to setup different alerts to notify you of job postings via email, RSS or Facebook. You can also use any of their tools and widgets to help you with your job search.
- LinkUp.com:
LinkUp is a new and unique job search engine that only lists jobs taken directly from
company websites. When you search for a job on LinkUp, you are actually searching over 20 thousand company websites.
According to the company:
“These are always current openings – if a company adds or removes a job from their website, so do we. There are never stale or out-dated listings on LinkUp.
You won’t find work-at-home scams, recruiters, or staffing agencies. You also won’t find the same job listed multiple times from different sources.”
The objective of acquiring its job listings in this way is to prevent fraudulent and duplicate listings which make up over 20 percent of results displayed on other search engines.
The web site offers standard job search features, which includes searching by keyword, location, category or company. When job seekers clicks a position of interest, they are taken directly to the employer’s website to learn more and apply. LinkUp also offers RSS feeds of all search results and an email alert service as new listings become available.
Since all of the jobs on LinkUp come from company websites, you will find more descriptive job listings, requirements and qualifications, benefits and company culture information.
Linkup job cloud to help job seekers find popular keywords for a specific job
Once you signup for an account, you can setup job alerts by simply performing a search and then click on “Save these search results as job alerts”. You can also save jobs to your “Job Basket” for later reference. You will be notified whenever one of the jobs in your basket has been closed by the employer.
LinkUp is a great new search engine and is worth a try.
- Trovix:
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Trovix was founded in 2002 with the goal of providing products and services that bridge the gulf between employers and people in search of the best career opportunities.
Unlike any other career service, Trovix developed a human-like search and advanced artificial intelligence technology that reads resumes and job descriptions the same way a human would, by focusing on key attributes such as skills, work history, and education to provide meaningful search results.
Twitter Job Search:
Twitter is a social networking site. Companies are increasingly using social-networking sites to reach their target audience and that include recruiting new hires.
If you are looking for a “Social Networking” related job or anything else, then you might want to give Twitter a try. Many new search engines now offer targeted search to only display job related tweets. The following is a list of the top Twitter job search engines:
- JobShouts.com:
JobShouts is an innovative and new generation employment resource that delivers real-time job postings and automated one click searching across multiple social networks simultaneously. JobShouts is integrated with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks.
JobShouts.com is a free resource for both employers and job seekers. Employers can post their jobs for free; those jobs are then automatically pushed to the social media sphere.
Job seekers can create an account using their Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or AOL ID and create a free user profile on JobShouts.com. This allows you to receive instant notification via Direct Message on Twitter whenever a job is posted that matches your profile.
You must have a Twitter account to receive new job notifications, or you can become a fan of JobShouts on Facebook or join the JobShouts group on LinkedIn.
- TweetMyJOBS:
Founded in 2009 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, TweetMyJobs has quickly become one of the largest Twitter job board. With 6,500+ vertical job channels segmented by geography, job type, and industry, TweetMyJOBS is able to connect employers and recruiters with targeted job candidates instantly any time a new job is posted.
To use their service, you simply create use your Twitter account and subscribe to one of their channels. Once a job that matches your criteria becomes available, you will receive a notification via a text message on your mobile-phone or your twitter.
- TwitterJobSearch:
Twitter Job Search scours Twitter for job posts and filters out all other tweets.
TwitterJobSearch is more than a simple search engine. It lets you follow and retweet twitter accounts and, via the TwitterJobSearch QuickPitch function, allows jobseekers to attached their online identities (ex. linkedIn, twitter, video, etc.) to jobs they are qualified for.
Tariq Ali is an avid follower of the search engine and Internet marketing industry for the past 10 years. When he is not working or playing with tech gadgets, you will find him swimming, biking or running.
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Tags: career, indeed, Job Search, job search engine, JobShouts, LinkUp, simply hired, TweetMyJobs, Twitter JobSearch
