Using Google to Find a Job - One Day One Job blog

I stumbled across a very detailed albeit old blog post on the One Day One Job blog titled How to Use Google to Find a Job. It is a very big post but worth reading in its entirety.

This blog has a post on one entry level job a day. They have a list of jobs posted in the past. Definitely worth subscribing to if the job profiles suit you. Also check out the career tools section containing articles, books and sites for reference.

Search - Using Omgili for your Job Search - Part 2

This topic continues from the earlier introduction to Omgili in Part 1 and aims to use it for a sample job search. As an example let us search for sales jobs in Memphis, TN

Using Omgili basic search

Enter the terms memphis sales job in the search box. Omgili stems keywords by default so it will show results containing the keyword 'jobs' as well.This search gives 2077 results.

Changing the order of the words will change the number of results, so job memphis sales gives 1862 results.

The results can also be sorted by relevance or date to get the latest results at the top. The search can also be added as an RSS feed to your favourite feed reader (Google reader, Bloglines, etc.). All these options are located on the upper right corner below the search box of the results page.

As can be seen, the results even when sorted by relevance are not very relevant. This raises the need to fine tune the search further and that means using the advanced search operators which we check out next.

Using Omgili advanced search

The Omgili advanced search helps us build more relevant queries. It helps us

• Target our search based on specific sections of the post such as the title, topic or reply.
• Eliminate results containing certain words
• Chose the forum name containing certain words
• Choose the forum by specific forum e.g. phpbb.com
• Choose the language
• Chose date ranges
• Chose sorting by relevance which is the default or date
• Choose the minimum number of replies for the post
• Choose the number of unique users involved in the discussion
• Choose the number of engaged users involved in the discussion (users who contributed atleast 100 words to the discussion)
• Disable keyword stemming which is enabled by default.

Now that we know what we have, let us use the above options to make our earlier search more specific.

• memphis and sales are required keywords
• Since some forums allow a seperate section for jobs, we can start by putting the word in title and later in topic
• We keep stemming enabled so that the keyword jobs is not missed.
• We choose the language as English
• We chose the date as last 3 months. This autofills the date range.

Using job in title gives just 2 results. Topic is better and gives 87 results. This looks a bit more relevant but still some results are for moves by high profile sports coaches. So let us put the word coach and miserable for elimination. This gives us 69 results

The 2nd discussion result is about a medical device sales job. The 8th result 'My company is hiring' looks relevant as well. But after the 1st page the results are not very relevant. Another weakness is the lack of a filter for inappropriate content.

With some practice and search refinements, we should get some relevant forums to track for jobs.

Omgili extended boolean search terms

The extended boolean search terms are basically search terms developed by the search tool to use directly in the search string. Our advanced query above looks like this in the search box.

memphis sales intopic:job -coach -miserable language:english from_date:20090109 to_date:20090409

If we select a specific word, say sales in the above we get a small menu just above the search box. It gives the option to convert the word sales to intitle:sales or boost its weightage by adding ^2 to the term as shown below

memphis sales^2 intopic:job -coach -miserable language:english from_date:20090109 to_date:20090409

Job Aggregators for Job Seekers

Job Aggregators

Job aggregators provide job seekers with jobs collected from various sites at a single location. The target sites include job boards, company career pages and agency sites. They work somewhat similarly to the larger search engines like Google, Yahoo, Live but are focussed on indexing jobs.

Some of the major aggregators covering jobs in India are listed below

Indeed
Simplyhired
Bixee
Recruit.net

Job aggregators also provide facility to create accounts, receive alerts by email or subscribe to RSS feeds. Some provide additional information including Salary trends as well as demand for the positions.

In our next article we will focus each of the individual aggregators mentioned above. This will cover features, sources covered, job volumes for some sample positions and for various locations.

Store Manager for High Street Retailer in Affluent North London Suburb

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Deputy Manager for Fast Growing Fashion Retailer in Swindon

Looking to further develop your multiple skills in high end retail Store Management?

One of UK's fastest growing high end fashion retailers are looking for a Deputy Manager to support their Store Manager in Swindon.

This is a great opportunity for someone to grow their

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• Ability to provide great Customer Service.
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Senior Retail Buyers for Sunny Tourist locale

Weymouth is one of the sunniest places in the UK and a major tourist haven with its great beaches, sports and scenery.

A rapidly expanding, high end fashion retailer with a major presence UK wide and overseas is looking for a Senior Retail buyer to be based in Weymouth with a salary to match the best.

You get to develop the trendy Fashion Lingerie department by

• Working closely with the Merchandiser
• Negotiating with Suppliers.
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There is great scope for trialling and selecting new products to develop. You manage a team consisting of a Business Analyst and an Assistant Buyer.

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