From The Undercover Recruiterare9

Some swear by them, some say they are a waste of time. Love them or
loathe them, job boards is the natural first port of call for most job
seekers. They are great for putting your finger on the job market pulse
and to get an idea of what is out there.

Too many job boards

The trouble with job boards is that you never know which one to use
as new ones keep popping up on a daily basis. The barriers to entry in
this industry are very low, as anyone with some technical knowledge can
set up a free open-source powered job board and start posting positions
tomorrow. This is part of the problem for the job seeker, as you will
have to trawl through numerous sites every day and sometimes you have to
sign up and upload a resume to apply as well.

Remember when the Internet was new and you were on AltaVista,
WebCrawler, Yahoo and whatever new search engine that came out. Then one
day you discovered Google and you never looked back…

Enter the job search engines

The good news is that there are meta search job boards that aggregate
job postings from other sites. Just like your typical search engines,
these sites will compile jobs matching the skill and location that you
enter. The results that come up will be pulled from all directions and
will be with you in an instant. Traditional job boards such as Monster
will charge their customers to post ads, the aggregators can’t do this
as they are only linking to the original ad. Instead, they rely on
advertising so you will have to put up with some Google Adsense next to
your search results.

Benefits of job board aggregators

The main reason for you to use an aggregator is that you will search
through all jobs in one go. You will not find as many results from your
search anywhere else. The comprehensive search will pull up results from
job boards, newspaper’s job sections, company career pages, recruiter
sites and more.

The other reason to use a job search engine is that you save lots of
time. Instead of hopping through 10 job boards per day, just use your
favourite aggregator and rest assured that you have all bases covered.
The time you save can be put to good use for the other aspects of your
job search.

Warning: lots of results and duplicates

For obvious reasons, the aggregated sites will render long lists of
results from your search terms. You will want to be as specific as
possible when searching to narrow down the findings. Enter not only your
skill but sub-skill, not only your town but actual zip code to begin
with to keep results more specific.

The job search engines will also deliver a great deal of duplicate
job postings. If a role is posted on three different sites (company, job
board and recruiter), you are likely to get all three results from your
search. Be aware of this and do not apply for the same job three times
as it will not do you any favors.

Here are the best aggregated job boards in order of size:

1. Indeed

Started out back in 2004 and was the trailblazer for all job search
engines and is still the largest. Indeed keeps expanding globally and is
now available in 19 different country specific versions.

2. SimplyHired

Close runner up to Indeed and definitely the great contender. It
looks and feels just like Indeed but SimplyHired has more add-on
applications that connects you to social media for easy sharing and
research on the jobs you find. Available in 17 countries worldwide.

3. CareerJet

Again a very similar application to Indeed, CareerJet claims to scan
over 58,000 websites daily, and it’s available in over 50 countries and
in 20 languages.

4.
Jobsafari

European aggregator service that is available in 10 countries and 8
languages, covers some countries that the other engines are not present
in.

5. JobRobot

The biggest German language aggregator which is very useful for central European job opportunities.

Final Note


Try these job search engines and work out which one works best for you.
Hopefully you will save both time and effort by using these aggregator
services. As always, remember to work all other fronts as well:
networking, social media and recruiters in order to get your next job.

What is your favourite job board and why?