20.5 Job Aid Tools using Google
1.Google Alerts - for tracking lay-offs, funding, company growth, and recently posted jobs.
An effective way of getting email updates of the relevant Google results of the Job news, their web links, the profile of the candidates and other queries are through Google Alerts. This service monitors developing job news or information, details the current competitor, industry, or upcoming companies with its various opening in the job market, and provides the latest information about a celebrity or event like job fair, seminars, and recently posted jobs.
2. Google Blog Search - search any and all blogs using keywords.
Google Blog search, an important Google toolbar searches for any and all the blogs for job postings that match the company’s profile. An appropriate keyword(s) is needed to make the search effective
3. Google Directory - section of the web to specific categories locate special work associations here.
Google Directory is that section of the web that highlights specific categories, from which the user may elect to search. The employment section gives an account of various jobs and openings in the companies. The Google Directory is a popular resume-posting site.
5. Google Finance - track stock, finance news, company profiles, management teams, blog posts, discussions, and more.
Google Finance is a wonderful tool that details the current market summary and the business headlines of the domestic and international market.
6. Google Scholar - Locate scholarly and industry papers, and get potential names for your next job hunt.
Google Scholar locates scholarly papers, resources, and other scholarly literature. From a single place, one can search for professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, list of companies and their vacancies, and varied job postings. With this tool, the user can find key papers in any area of research.
7. Google Specialized Searches - narrow your search with special filters; examples include the U.S. Government, Linux, BSD, Apple Macintosh, and Microsoft.
Google Special Search is an important service that narrows-down the search and makes the task of finding job postings and companies. It gives them a variety of options that are important to employers.
8. Google Page Creator - create your own web page for posting open positions.
Google Page Creator is another tool with which a recruiter can create the web page of his company for posting his job opening in various fields.
9. Google Blogger - share your expertise, knowledge, tips, post jobs. Build your network by building a steady readership.
This service has made weblog publishing much easier. One can easily post jobs, search for the required jobs through Google Blogger.
10. Google Gmail - organization at its finest, create a job hunting specific email.
Google Gmail is a new kind of webmail that helps in working with multiple search. It is built on the idea that a user never has to delete mail; in addition, it allows users to search their mail as they would the internet, using the Google search bar. Currently, users are given about 2.7 gigabytes free storage, though the count grows every day.
11. Google Groups - Build your own online list, or join one of many. You can even set a Google alert looking for special keywords.
With Google Groups, you can join groups pertaining to varying topics in the skill sets you are looking for. Track your favorite topics. By using the new star feature, you can keep track of your favorite topics at a glance. Finally, if you don’t find a group that fits what you are looking for, then you can easily create your own group. By creating this mailing list or discussion forum around a topic you’re interested in you can start to invite recruiters of a certain caliber.
12. Google Language Tools - helps working with international clients or jobs. This nifty translating program will translate the pages instantly (over 240 languages are available).
Google language toolbar helps you to interview foreign candidates as well; it translates the text into any required language and thus helps in smooth correspondence.
13. Google Toolbar - search much quicker from your navigation pane and best of all, when you locate the searches you can have it highlight the words you were searching for.
Google toolbar has the ‘Google search’ incorporated in it. Therefore one need not keep visit the Google search website. Furthermore, Google also allows the search to be terms to be highlighted. For e.g. if you search for ‘Tips on networking ‘ naturally, the Google search engine will highlight the term ‘Tips on networking’ wherever it appears in the content of the web page. This helps you to locate the information in a quicker and hassle free manner.
14. Google Site Flavor Search - Type in site:sampledomain.com and search the domain for specifics (find out who works in that org).
Site-flavored Google search delivers web search results that are customized to individual websites. You have to fill out a profile describing your website’s content, and when you add a site-flavored search box to your site, it will be easy to locate you! Your users will get search results that are ‘flavored’ and attuned to their interests.
15. Google’s Orkut.com - one of the fastest growing innovative social networks online.
Orkut.com is one of the fastest growing innovative social networks online maintained by Google. Here, users list their personal and professional information, creates relationships amongst friends, and joins communities.
16. Google Answers - doing research or job hunting, need help? Google answers help you with a minimum charge.
Google Answers is a way to get that help from researchers with expertise in online searching. If a job hunter wants to employ a researcher and wants to know more about the background of the company where the researcher is presently working he can easily take help of Google Answers for authentic information.
17. Google Search History - When logged into your Google account, it keeps a record of all your searches (use this to refer back to prior search strings you might have used).
Google Search History keeps a record of all the searches done by a user when they log into their Google account. In this way, a job hunter keeps a track of the postings they have approached while surfing the net.
18. Google base - very efficient in job posting and help both online job seekers and recruiters.
Google base is an excellent site for checking new job postings. This site was officially launched on 16th November 2005. Online job seekers can search jobs here by type of position, location, industry, job function and education. Google base works just like any other job search engines and enables one to find positions that other companies have enrolled on Google base and listings from some job sites. Members of Direct Employers Association in the US can directly post job requirements from their corporate web sites to Google Base. This online job site is user-friendly where one can look for jobs and candidates that isn’t listed anywhere. CareerBuilder, a Google’s launch partners comments that “feeding our jobs to Google Base further extends our distribution network, providing employers with added support in marketing their open positions.”
19. Google Page Rank- helps in understanding the ranks of the web pages by the advertisers or recruiters.
The Page Rank option in Google can rate any website from 1 ? 10. The page ranks depend on various factors like keywords, keyword in URL, and reciprocal linking. This toolbar helps the job seeker as well as the recruiter to determine the importance and the quality of services provided by the site or the company, which can serve their purpose.
Google has also designed Pop-Up Blocker plug-in that will help the serious searchers to do tension free web surfing.
20. Google Adwords - An effective tool to place advertisements.
The Google AdWord service allows the job hunters to place ads on any Google search page, Gmail, or AdSense page when a key phrase is displayed. It is one of the largest sources of income made by Google Inc. worldwide. The advertisers and the employers have to pay Google per click, as per conditions of the company.
20.5 Google Public Service tool - helps in finding employees from the educational fields.
Google Public Service Search is another tool bar that offers free site search for educational institutions and non-profit organizations worldwide. Unlimited queries can be made with high levels of customization. It enables the recruiters to search for employees from college and university after verifying their profile. Searching for particular information of a company with Gmail gives the exact information without giving an irrelevant result.
Helpful Tips writing your Searches
1) To search effectively, one should concentrate on using specific keywords or key phrases.
2) Google can accommodate 32 words within the search query.
3) If the job hunter wants to find a code word URL in Google, he should use URL: position AND IBM. Title should be written like this: title: position AND Clerk. Link should be placed like this: example: link: dell.com. Further if one searches for host of a particular URL, he should write; host: mit.edu to get an effective result. To search for pages in a domain like .com, or .org for example domain: .org AND Graphic Designer should be written to get an effective result.
4) The following symbols can also be used for making the search more useful:
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This is termed as a wild card. It helps in getting more search results. For e.g. if one is searching for a content writer’s job, then one can type ‘content writer’s *job’. Doing so will also list content writer’s job, content writer’s position, content writer’s title etc. |
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“” |
These are termed as double quotes. These are used if one is interested in finding specific things. For e.g. if one is looking for resumes of engineers residing in Ohio, one need to type “engineers in Ohio” |
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This tells the search engine that you are interested in pages having both the terms. For e.g. you are looking out for person who is a web designer as well as graphic designer, you can type in the search query as ‘Resumes web designer+ graphic designer’ |
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This tells the search engine that you are not interested in a particular term. For e.g. if you are interested in hiring only content writers and are not interested in technical writers, you can type in ‘Resumes of content writers-technical writers.’ |
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This symbol is referred to as Tilde. It is used for finding synonyms of the same word. For e.g. if you are interested in hiring science teachers, you can type in the search query as ‘resumes of science~teachers’. This will provide you with results for science teacher as well as science professors, science tutors, science educators etc. |