The thrill of the hunt.
When I read a job description for a job I think I’d like (and am qualified for), I get a small (albeit short lived) high. Even if the job is in an undesirable location, just knowing that jobs like that are out there gives me hope. Hope among the endless repetitive job descriptions that I’m either under- or over-qualified for.
As I’ve been intensely job searching, many of my friends and coworker are aware of my search. They hear every bit of news whenever I got a response, they urge me to apply for jobs that I don’t feel that I’m 100% qualified for, and they cheer when I get a callback. As a consequence of pouring my energy into job searching and letting others know that I’m on the market, I’ve become the source for all things job search related. I have people emailing me resumes to review, cover letters to edit, asking how I find all these jobs to apply to…. I’m thinking that if I can’t find a job in my field perhaps I should make a fulltime job out of job-hunting services! (I do love editing cover letters). Anyways, I was surprised that some of my fellow job seekers did not know about my ULTIMATE, FAVORITE JOB SEARCH WEBSITE:
It’s a big, comprehensive job search site like Careerbuilder or Monster, but less of a….err, monster. Its google-esque and very intuitive and user friendly. You can also search using Boolean terms (i.e. x AND y NOT z). I have two favorite features about this site.
1) It remembers which jobs you looked at and marks them in a different color text. This is a simple but awesome feature and keeps me from reading the same ads over again. I can’t tell you how many times I start reading a job description’s details only to realize that I’ve already read it a few days ago, or even already applied to it. Similarly (providing that you allow cookies on your computer) the home page will show your recent search (so you don’t have to retype or try to remember all the different titles that your dream job goes by!) AND it will show how many new jobs have met your search criteria since you last checked in!! This makes finding the newly announced jobs so much easier and is a huge time saver.
2) It goes beyond searching job title and city. You can just as easily search by job duties, skills, or description. For example, say there is a certain skill that you offer, but the accompanying matching jobs have vast and varied titles…making searching by job title difficult because nearly every employers calls this position something different. Frustrating, oh yes. With Indeed, instead of searching by job title (which may or may not be the same title of the actual jobs that I really want to find), I typed in an industry specific computer program that I had extensive training and experience with. Boom. Indeed pulled up a list of jobs that had this program as part of the job requirements or desired skills. And this search, too, is saved and updated when new matches are added. =)
2.25) Side note: you can easily pull up ALL job postings from a specific employer….allowing you to see which departments they have been hiring in and do some extra research on them.
Sign up for a their job agent alert. Take the work out of job hunting through endless advertisements. Save your elbow grease for landing that interview. Job searching, simplified.
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