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Guide to Using Google for Your Job Search
Google is clearly the dominant search engine in use today and one of the most important tools for you to use in your job search. While no search engine, not even Google, covers 100% of the content of the Web, Google is very powerful and flexible, even providing tools to help you keep track of what's happening online.
Google continues to add new tools and services as well as increasing the number of websites included in their database ("index") of Web content for all of us to use. Here are some ways that you can leverage Google's contents and tools.
Google Your Way to a New Job
We cannot cover all of the tools Google offers, but we'll cover the ones we think are the most useful to job seekers:
- Google Search Ground Rules -
Understand 5 basic ground rules of Google Search. - Google-izing your job search -
How to structure your queries so Google finds what you want.
- Finding Jobs Using Google -
Figuring out how to find the right jobs using Google. - Defensive Googling -
Know what employers are finding about you on Google.
- Setting Up Google Alerts -
Set up Google Alerts and let Google keep you informed about the topics that are most important to you.
- Using Google Alerts for your Job Search
5 ways to leverage Google Alerts to help you in your job search.
- 50 Google Searches to Avoid Layoffs and Weak Employers
Put Google to work scouring the news for information about your employer (if you have a job) or potential employers (if you are job hunting).
- Google Alerts to Monitor Your Reputation
Reputation management with Google Alerts as your first line of defense. - Finding the Jobs on Employer Websites
If they postings are there, Google can help you find them when they seem to be well-hidden. - Finding Hidden Jobs on Dot-Jobs Websites
Leveraging the little-known top level domain, dot-jobs (.jobs) where many jobs are listed.
Be Find-Able
In addition to finding job postings, understanding how Google (and search) works can make it easier for employers to find you.
- Increasing Your Resume's Searchability
21st Century resumes are different than in the past so they can meet this new requirement. - Optimizing Your Resume for Employer Searching
How to find and use the appropriate keywords for your resume. - Picking the Best Keywords for Your Resume and Social Media Profiles
Understanding what keywords are and how to figure out which ones apply to you. - Internet Resumes
Making your resume Internet-friendly.
- Resumes
Creating and managing your resume. - Social Media and Job Search
Using the various social networks for job search and understanding the impact of social media. - LinkedIn Job Search
Leveraging the top social network for professionals. - Twitter Job Search
Discovering how useful Twitter can be for job search.
Protect Your Online Reputation
In the era of Google and social networks, knowing what recruiters will find about you in a search is important. And, so is knowing how to fix problems you may find (your problems or those of someone else with the same name).
- How to Do Defensive Googling
- Defensive Googling: Find (& Fix) Mistaken Online Identity
- Unlock a Succesful Job Search: Reputation Management
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About the author...
Online job search expert Susan P. Joyce has been observing the online job search world and teaching online job search skills since 1995. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Susan is a two-time layoff “graduate” who has worked in human resources at Harvard University and in a compensation consulting firm. Since 1998, Susan has been editor and publisher of Job-Hunt.org. Follow Susan on Twitter at @jobhuntorg and on Google+.
