In the career search, there are countless online channels through which students and professionals can find prospective job and internship opportunities. In addition to both their own personal networking and/or campus recruiting, most career seekers are familiar with and have experience using the major job search engines, such as Monster, CareerBuilder and Yahoo! HotJobs, to identify opportunities of interest. However, many have found these search engines to be disappointing and unfruitful due to the abundance of irrelevant results. Also, job seekers must visit all three search engines in addition to any other channels that they use separately in order to maximize their opportunities. This can be quite wasteful of a job seeker’s valuable time and energy.
There have been a number of recent job search engines that have stepped up to resolve this issue. Based on personal experience and the feedback of real job seekers, Indeed.com and LinkUp.com are considered some of the most effective job search engines on the web today, and Career Rocketeer is proud to recommend them to all job seekers.
Indeed.com
Indeed is one of the leading job search aggregators, a term referring to job search engines that collect job listings from other search engines, websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs, career pages, and associations. Indeed is easily compared to a career search Google, helping job seekers to match their search queries to the most relevant of millions of job listings from thousands of different sources, including the major job search engines. Indeed provides job seekers a great way to optimize their job opportunity identification process and in turn, saves them time to apply to more opportunities.
LinkUp.com
LinkUp is a unique job search aggregator, for instead of only collecting job listings from other job boards, it goes directly to the corporate and employer websites to collect only the most relevant and most current job opportunities. Job listings from over 11,000 corporate and employer web sites from around the country are posted on LinkUp, and because they come from straight from the source, there are no spam or duplicate job listings. Only an average of 20% of all job opportunities are advertised through third-party job postings, and so, LinkUp offers job seekers a way to explore and uncover a great deal more of the “hidden job market,” or those opportunities only posted on the employer’s websites.
Using both of these search engines together in your career search efforts will ensure that you don't miss any potential opportunities of interest for which you are qualified.
Author:
Chris Perry, MBA is a Gen Y brand and marketing "generator," a career search and personal branding expert and the founder of Career Rocketeer and Launchpad.
