Internsover40 Tips:
Time:3 minutes
Difficulty Level: Beginner
After you view the video demo try to follow these steps to do your own job search using Google advanced search.
Step 1:Go to www.google.com
Step 2:Type in your job search in this order: you city/town job name. For example: “San Diego electronic engineering jobs” (be sure to have quotes). If hundreds or thousands of results are returned go to step 3.
Step 3:Narrow the dates of your search: Click on the advanced Search link (this is just below the Google search button). Click on the Blue highlighted link at the bottom of the page “Date usage rights,numeric range and more. Click on the “Date:anytime” drop down arrow” change it to” past week”. Then click on the advance search button at the bottom of the page. This should give a manageable number of local job postings. If you are in a very large city you might try changing to to the “last 24 hours”.
Step 4: You can now click on the links that seem relevant. Remember that you will get back some junk , but after using this a few times you will probably find a new and relevant listings from local companies that have posted their jobs on their corporate websites.
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It is hard to keep trying and be positive. I feel for all of the people who are really hurting.
ReplyDeleteJob searching is very frustrating. That's why it's important to be patient. Technology can really help you during your Job search.
ReplyDeleteWhat is step 4?
ReplyDeleteAnother tool to "catch more fish" is truncation where you put a special character (*, ?, !) at the end of a word like librarian* so you get both librarian and librarians and even any hyphenated combinations. Sorry, I don't know Google's truncation character yet...
ReplyDeleteHarry Brooks/I can find the needle in your haystack!
This is a good tip, but is difficult if you have surrounding locations you want to search. On www.GadBall.com the job search runs your search on multiple job boards and allows for a location radius - if you can't find what you need using the Google tip, this might help.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the posting! Such as exciting stuff here, some great tips swirling around me!
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