Looking for work is stressful, especially when you think about toggling between the various job sites youll have to scour for the right gig (not to mention all the attendantresume tweaking) .
To help, Googles updating its recently launchedGoogle for Jobs service, allowing job seekers to glean more information about potential gigs, and help them narrow down their prospective career opportunities without dealing with tab after tab of identical listings.
The job-hunting service is integrated into Googles search engine, so you’re free to look for gigs in the same seamless way you search for celebrities ages, or for terminal diseases based on your symptoms (its just a cold).
It also attempts to fill in the blanks on a glaring omission in nearly 85% of all job postings,according to Google: an actual salary.
Googles attempting to rectify the error by including either stated or estimated salaries based on both the job title and the reported salary range from sites like Glassdoor, PayScale, and LinkedIn.
Another important feature: job seekers looking to avoid existentially crushing commutes can now narrow their potential options to particular cities or a particular distance from your home using the updated location filter tool.
While job searches often involve visiting multiple job posting sites such as LinkedIn or Monster.com, if Google detects the same job posting in multiple sites, it will let you choose on which site youd like to apply.
A job saving feature is coming in a couple of weeks according to Google, and will allow you to save particular job listings and sync them between your devices.
Employers looking to add their own job listings to Googles job searching service canfollow the companys instructionson making job postings available to its search engine.
you’re free to also post your job listing on a list of sites (like LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, and Glassdoor, among others) already integrated with Googles job searching service to avoid the hassle of integration yourself.
