If you’ve been inactive on the job search front for a while, your CV is probably outdated.

You can also use LinkedIn to research everything you can about a potential hiring manager and his team. Most employers and recruitment agencies will have a presence on the network and are open to connecting with job seekers either on LinkedIn groups or on a one-to-one basis. It can be a valuable source of information and leads. LinkedIn, the much touted professional networking site offers numerous opportunities for job seekers to connect with recruiters, potential employers and industry peers. If you don’t want to use iGoogle, there are free alternatives such as which work in a similar way. You can also add other useful widgets such as Gmail, Calendar, Google directions and even a currency converter if you’re looking at international jobs. This affords you an ‘at-a-glance’ view of all the open jobs available without accessing each site separately. The widgets update frequently and are clickable links to the live job advertisements. Using iGoogle widgets, you can subscribe to RSS feeds from different job sites and have up to 9 of the latest jobs from each site displayed side by side.

The Google Homepage service will be deprecated by November 2013 but until then, you can still use it to set up your ‘Job search dashboard’. Alternatively, you can use Google Alerts to monitor job vacancies from the companies you are targeting as well as any press releases or company updates which could prove useful for your search. Indeed aggregates vacancies from several job boards and careers site which guarantees you get the most comprehensive run down of jobs available. By signing up to the alerts, you’ll get notified every time there’s a job that matches your search requirements and save you from having to check multiple websites every day. Email Alerts:Įmail Alerts are a useful way of keeping up-to-date with the latest vacancies available direct from any job board or corporate careers site. However, with all of these advancements, the modern job search can still seem a bit complicated and time consuming. Here are a number of tools that can help simplify and organise your job search process: 1. These days, the majority of job searches are conducted online, spawning a whole new industry around job boards, recruitment websites and job posting platforms. When was the last time that you looked at a newspaper to find your next job? Over the last decade, how people discover new job opportunities has evolved dramatically.

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