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Using a job search agent successfully

Using a job search agent successfully

From the course: Job Search Strategies

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Using a job search agent successfully

No matter what job boards you decide to use, a job search agent will save you an immense amount of time. Job search agents allow jobseekers to get notifications via email or RSS feeds. Many large organizations and specialty sites will give you the ability to set up an agent on their site. The benefit of these agents is that they are within a defined organization or specialty. If they don't have the capability of setting up an agent, then you'll want to set up a weekly time to review targeted organizations' web sites and specialty sites in your area of expertise. However, there are also multi-search mash-up sites that can be useful, like indeed.com or simplyhired.com. These sites crawl the web and direct jobseekers to openings on corporate career web sites, recruiting job boards, online newspapers, blogs, and association web sites. The benefit of course is that it gathers information from many sites and you can do broad searches on skills such as Photoshop to broaden your…

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