Google Job Search – The Secrets Of Using Google To Find Jobs

In this tough economy with so many unemployed people searching for jobs on the popular employment websites, your chances of getting to a good lead before others apply are minute.

You can get an edge over other candidates by doing a Google job search. Why search dozens of popular job sites when Google has already done the work for you? Scores of opportunities are sitting quietly in Google’s index – many even that are not listed on the usual sites (ie…Monster, Careerbuilder, etc)

It costs employers big money to list openings on job search engines, so many opt to advertise opportunities only locally. Many jobs wind up in only the local newspaper classifieds which may not get searched by the big job websites.

Many government agencies also list job openings only on their own websites, meaning that you are missing on hundreds of possible positions by not searching on each individual site. When was the last time you checked for jobs on NASA’s careers page?

Most of these jobs are already indexed in Google and by doing a few simple “Advanced” search techniques, you can find the job you are looking for. The problem is that Google is too powerful and will return too much data, burying your job in results that also contain articles on how to write resumes or anything else mentioning the word “job”.

A simple search for “Chicago jobs” returns over 36,000,000 results! There are hardly that many people in Chicago, let alone jobs. You are seeing the results for every website, every article, and every mention of your keywords on the internet. By feeding Google the proper search parameters, you can eliminate everything that isn’t a valid job opening and uncover many exciting opportunities.

Here are the basics for crafting a proper Google job search:

To do a basic search for jobs in a city, use this string:

Lexington+KY “computer jobs” cisco

This simple query will return every opening that Google knows about in Lexington, Ky that pertains to Cisco computer jobs.

This is the simplest of searches, here is another option:

Lexington+ky ~waitress jobs

The tilde symbol tells the search engine to do a “related” match, which uses fuzzy logic to check “waitress”, “server”, and even “bartender” when doing its Google job search.

You can also try putting the tilde ( ~ ) symbol in front of “jobs” to find matches for “contracts”, “openings”, “opportunities”, etc – very powerful!

Another advanced search technique is to eliminate sites from results, uncovering what has been there all along but just buried under too many matches. Here is an example:

Richmond+VA “electronics technician” -IBM -monster.com

This search string will check for electronics jobs in Richmond, Virginia but will exclude anything for IBM or any jobs listed on Monster.com (because those have probably already been viewed thousands of times!)

We mentioned NASA above, here is how you can search for jobs only listed on government websites:

site:.gov “computer jobs” secret+clearance

Now any website ending in .gov will be checked for jobs that require a secret clearance!

All of the Google job searches above can be performed on the regular Google site, or you can use a job search engine that only checks employment and classifieds websites to narrow your search even more.

You will find that searching on Google is much faster than waiting on employment websites to load and return results with all the graphics and advertisements on the page.

This is like searching on all the big named employment finding websites, plus local papers, plus government agencies all at once – exponentially increasing your odds at finding an opening before a horde of job searchers do.

So now you are armed with the right tools for doing advanced Google job searches, happy hunting!

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